Grantable
AI grant writing software that finds funders, drafts proposals in your voice, and tracks every deadline
For grant teams that already have proposals, 990s, and a house voice worth preserving, Grantable is the strongest pick we've reviewed — both the prospecting and the drafting improve with the material you upload, which is the opposite of how database subscriptions work. Teams starting from zero documents get considerably less. Watch the capacity math: the free tier is 5 chat messages a day, and real drafting starts at the $50/mo Starter tier.
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- Nonprofit grant writers juggling several applications who need a real first draft faster
- Organizations with a backlog of past proposals and 990s to teach the AI their voice and programs
- Grant teams that want funder discovery grounded in IRS filings and real giving history, not keyword search
- Small nonprofits that need database, drafting, and pipeline tracking on one bill instead of three
- One-off grant seekers with no past proposals or organizational documents to draw from
- Anyone who only wants a lightweight keyword funder search and nothing more
- Organizations unwilling to upload sensitive documents such as 990s and budgets
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Skip Grantable if you have no past proposals, 990s, or organizational documents to feed it — the drafting improves with history, and a team starting from zero gets little beyond free funder discovery.
Chat message caps are per day, not per month: Free 5/day, Starter 50/day, Pro 200/day — a heavy drafting sprint can exhaust Starter's 50 before lunch and push you toward the $150/mo Pro tier.
Grantable's tiers ladder cleanly by capacity rather than by feature: Free 1x, Starter $50/mo at 20x, Pro $150/mo at 60x, plus the $300/mo Agency Hub add-on — all with no per-seat fees. It fits a one- or two-writer nonprofit spending $200–$500/mo across Instrumentl, a ChatGPT seat, and ClickUp. Against a $50–$100/mo general AI subscription it costs more per seat but replaces three bills and adds funder research; against enterprise grant CRMs it sits well below them.
In short
Grantable — AI grant writing software that finds funders, drafts proposals in your voice, and tracks every deadline. Best for Nonprofit grant writers juggling several applications who need a real first draft faster, Organizations with a backlog of past proposals and 990s to teach the AI their voice and programs, Grant teams that want funder discovery grounded in IRS filings and real giving history, not keyword search. Free to start; paid plans from $50/mo.
What's new in Grantable
Checked 7 days agoAcross the latest 3 updates: 1 feature update, 1 changelog entry and 1 news mention.
Grantable Blog: Smarter Prospecting & Funder Research series
Grantable published a Smarter Prospecting & Funder Research series essay (3 min read) aimed at grant professionals evaluating funder databases.
Grantable adds batch funder assessment and Fit Assessment in briefs
Grantable can assess all unassessed prospects from a funder search in one run, writing a Fit Assessment section into each Prospect Brief. Fit verdict reduced to Strong, Fair, Weak, or Blocked.
Grantable renders code blocks clearly in chat responses
Formatted blocks in Grantable chat responses — tables of contents, data snippets, structured output — now render in the app's light styling.
What people actually say about Grantable — is it worth it?
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Viability Score
How well maintained and how widely used is Grantable? Built from what the vendor actually publishes (docs, changelog, tutorials, integrations, pricing), whether the site is live, and how much real users discuss it. How we calculate this
Last calculated: October 2026
How we score →Key Features
- Agent-based funder discovery screening 990 filings, giving histories, and the live web
- Plain-English fit scores with written reasoning and sources for every funder match
- Batch assessment of every unassessed prospect in one run, writing a Fit Assessment section into each Prospect Brief
- One-word Fit verdict per prospect row: Strong, Fair, Weak, or Blocked, with the why written out
- Prospect Brief record-completeness rating (Excellent to Poor) showing what each gap would cost you
- AI drafting of LOIs, proposals, and budgets in your organization's voice from your content library
- Inline AI suggestions inside the draft document, not in a chat window
- RFP requirement extraction: paste a funder's rules and every requirement becomes a checklist
- Self-populating dashboard with list, board, calendar, and stats views — no manual data entry
- Scheduled scans (daily, weekly, monthly) re-checking saved funders and emailing findings
- Email hand-off: your workspace has its own address for sending work and receiving reports
- Content library that auto-organizes proposals, boilerplate, budgets, and funder notes
- Skills: editable plain-English playbooks for recurring work, from the Marketplace
- Progress report drafting from the same workspace after a grant is funded
- Workspace chat interface with formatted code blocks and structured output rendering
About Grantable
Grantable is AI grant writing software for nonprofits, built as a single workspace that runs prospecting, drafting, and pipeline management from one conversation. You tell it about your organization once — mission, programs, past wins — and the Prospecting desk screens 990 filings, giving histories, and the live web against that profile, returning ranked funder matches with the reasoning written out in plain English. Each match carries a Fit verdict (Strong, Fair, Weak, or Blocked) plus a Prospect Brief that rates how complete the funder record is and what each gap would cost you. Discovery is free forever, no account required to browse 50,000+ open grants. The writing side is where teams spend their days. Paste a funder's application rules and every requirement becomes a checklist; Grantable then drafts the narrative section by section from your content library — past proposals, budgets, funder notes — and leaves the editing inline in the document rather than in a chat window. It's a real first draft you edit, not boilerplate you rewrite, and AI review catches gaps before a reviewer does. Budgets, progress reports, and LOIs all draw from the same library, so your tenth grant is faster than your first and a new hire is briefed on day one. Operations run without a project manager. The dashboard self-populates across list, board, calendar, and stats views; scheduled scans re-check saved funders daily, weekly, or monthly and email findings; the workspace has its own email address for handing off work and getting reports back. Nothing goes to a funder automatically — you send every email yourself. Editable plain-English Skills act as playbooks a whole team shares, pulled from a Marketplace you can update in one click. Grantable positions itself against three purchases: grant database subscriptions like Instrumentl and Foundation Directory, general AI subscriptions like ChatGPT, and grant pipeline trackers like ClickUp or Monday.com. At 30,000+ grant-seeking
Behind the Verdict
Grantable's pitch is capacity, not access — and that's the right frame. Every plan includes the whole department: agents, writing, dashboard, scans, skills. No feature gates, no per-seat fees. What you're buying is how much work it can do each month, which reframes the usual grant-software comparison. You're not shopping for a cheaper Instrumentl seat; you're deciding whether one workspace can absorb a database subscription, an AI subscription, and a project tracker. Pick it when your bottleneck is hours, not leads. The Prospecting desk does the reading — 990s, giving history, live web — and returns a ranked shortlist with sources attached. That's the part competitors charge a subscription for and still make you do the profile reading yourself. Pair that with a content library that pulls real past proposals into new drafts and the compounding is genuine: staff turnover stops wiping institutional knowledge. Pass when you have nothing to feed it. If there are no past proposals, no 990s, no mission documents to import, the voice-matching and library advantages mostly evaporate, and you're paying for a drafting tool that knows less about you than a careful prompt would. A one-off grant seeker doing two applications a year is better served by browsing the free grants database and writing it alone. Also pass if you won't upload sensitive documents, or if you've already standardized on a grant CRM your finance team runs. Grantable replaces the tracker; it doesn't necessarily integrate with one you're contractually committed to. The closest alternative isn't another AI writer — it's the stack. Instrumentl plus a ChatGPT seat plus a ClickUp workspace runs most teams $200–$500 a month, which is the comparison Grantable invites and the one worth actually running against your
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Real-world workflow fit
Concrete scenarios for the personas Grantable actually fits — and what changes day-one when you adopt it.
She starts on the Free tier for funder discovery, describes her youth-services program once, and gets a scored shortlist with written reasoning. Once she needs volume drafting she upgrades to Starter at the discounted $25/mo-for-one-year rate, uploads past proposals into the content library, and drafts LOIs section by section with inline AI suggestions.
Outcome: A shortlist that used to take days of database reading arrives in about a minute, and her first LOI drafts come out in her organization's voice rather than boilerplate.
They run Pro at $150/mo, run a bulk assessment pass over each new funder search so the Fit column arrives filled in, schedule a weekly scan on saved funders, and forward RFP emails into the workspace inbox. The dashboard tracks every grant from prospect to award across list, board, and calendar views with no manual data entry.
Outcome: Deadlines and pipeline stop living in a spreadsheet, and the Funders that need re-checking surface themselves by email.
She uses the content library and Skills playbooks — pre-written and edited in plain English — to hand the new writer the organization's research procedure and reporting format on day one, then points them at the Prospect Briefs for their assigned funders.
Outcome: Institutional knowledge transfers with the role instead of leaving with the person, and the new writer drafts in the org's voice within the first week.
Use Cases
- Find matching funders by describing your organization once, then reviewing a scored shortlist instead of reading hundreds of profiles
- Write a full grant proposal section by section from your own boilerplate and funder requirements, then edit inline
- Extract a checklist from a lengthy RFP so no requirement gets missed before submission
- Collaborate with team members on grant documents with roles and permissions and no per-seat fees
- Set up automated funder monitoring to receive email alerts when a saved funder's priorities change (Pro)
- Score a whole funder search in one assessment pass and read the fit verdict in each Prospect Brief (September 2026)
- Manage grant emails from your workspace inbox, forwarding work in and replying to move it along
- Draft progress reports from the same workspace after a grant is funded
Models Under the Hood
as of 2026-10-16
Limitations
- AI usage is metered by plan capacity: Free gets 5 chat messages a day, Starter 50/day, and Pro 200/day.
- Capacity is framed as multiples of baseline — 20× Free on Starter and 60× Free (3× Starter) on Pro — rather than unlimited, so heavy drafting periods can hit the ceiling.
- File imports are capped at 10 MB on Free, while Starter and Pro allow unlimited imports; per-seat fees are not charged on any plan.
- The Agency Hub multi-client add-on is listed at $300/mo and applies to any paid plan.
as of 2026-09-30
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Plans compared
For each published Grantable tier: who it actually fits, and what it adds vs. the previous tier. Cross-reference the cost calculator above for projected annual outlay.
Free
$0/mo
Ideal for
A solo grant writer or new program testing whether agent-based funder discovery beats their current keyword database search — free forever with no credit card required.
What this tier adds
Starting tier. Every capability of the full department is included, but capacity is 1x: 5 chat messages a day and a 10 MB file import cap.
Starter
$50/mo
Ideal for
A one- or two-writer nonprofit during an active grant season who needs regular drafts and unlimited imports but isn't running a full pipeline.
What this tier adds
Adds 20x the AI capacity of Free, 50 chat messages a day, and unlimited file imports — the entry point for volume drafting. $25/mo for one year under a $500K budget.
Pro
$150/mo
Ideal for
A grants office running many applications at once that needs full-speed drafting plus scheduled funder monitoring.
What this tier adds
Three times Starter's capacity — 60x Free — with 200 chat messages a day and unlimited imports. $75/mo for one year under a $500K budget.
Agency Hub (add-on)
$300/mo
Ideal for
A grant consultancy managing several nonprofit clients that needs multi-client dashboards and cross-client reporting in one place.
What this tier adds
An add-on that layers on top of any paid plan: adds multi-client dashboards, consolidated billing, cross-client reporting, and shared asset libraries held in your hub.
Where the pricing makes sense
The company stage and team size where Grantable's pricing actually pencils out — and where peers do it cheaper.
Grantable's tiers ladder cleanly by capacity rather than by feature: Free 1x, Starter $50/mo at 20x, Pro $150/mo at 60x, plus the $300/mo Agency Hub add-on — all with no per-seat fees. It fits a one- or two-writer nonprofit spending $200–$500/mo across Instrumentl, a ChatGPT seat, and ClickUp. Against a $50–$100/mo general AI subscription it costs more per seat but replaces three bills and adds funder research; against enterprise grant CRMs it sits well below them.
Setup time & first value
How long it actually takes to get something useful out of Grantable — broken out by persona, not the marketing-page minute.
For an organization with past proposals ready to upload, expect a working session of roughly an hour to describe your programs, load the content library, and get a first shortlist back from a funder search. Drafting skill sharpens over the first few proposals as the library grows. Teams starting with nothing to upload will find first value limited to free funder discovery, which is usable in
Switching to or from Grantable
How to bring data in from common predecessors and how to get it back out — written for the switcher, not the buyer.
- →From Instrumentl or Foundation Directory: run funder discovery directly in Grantable and let the agents screen 990 filings and giving histories rather than reading profiles yourself.
- →From ChatGPT or a general AI subscription: point the AI at your content library instead of pasting boilerplate into prompts, and edit drafts inline rather than in a chat.
- →From ClickUp, Monday.com, or a tracking spreadsheet: let the dashboard populate itself across list, board, and calendar views instead of updating statuses by hand.
- →From a shared drive of past proposals: import Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, or Box files into the content library and tidy filenames by prompt.
- →From individual inboxes: forward grant email into the workspace so replies and drafts live alongside the grants they belong to.
- ↗To Instrumentl or Foundation Directory: your saved funders and giving-history notes are portable as research context, but you lose the agent-scored shortlist and plain-English reasoning.
- ↗To ChatGPT or a general AI subscription: exports of proposals and boilerplate move easily, but you lose the content library's automatic filing and the inline in-document editing.
- ↗To ClickUp or a spreadsheet: pipeline data can be rebuilt as tasks and rows, but you take on the manual status updates the self-populating dashboard was doing for you.
- ↗To a dedicated grant CRM: expect to re-enter funder records and deadlines, since Grantable's value is holding those in the same workspace as the writing.
Integrations
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Tutorials & Learning
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