~Grant infrastructure for the rest of America
NexGrant takes a matched funding opportunity all the way to a complete, source-cited, compliance-checked application — and files it to Grants.gov. Not a search result. Not a draft. The submission. You review and approve; we do the rest.
0 of 5 top grant platforms write the application
Filed end-to-end to Grants.gov
All 50 states + 140,992 foundations
Big nonprofits and big cities employ teams of grant writers. Everyone else doesn't — so they miss most of the funding they're eligible to win. Here's what that costs.
of the biggest grant-software firms actually write the application
what one finished federal application costs from a consultant
staff hours to write a competitive federal application — 116 on average
pages in a typical federal NOFO, dense with rules. Misread eligibility once and weeks of work go in the bin.
You can buy all of them and still be staring at a blank application the night before it’s due. Not one of them finishes it.
| The tool | Find | Write | File to Grants.gov | Manage after the win |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery toolsInstrumentl, Candid, GrantWatch | — | — | — | |
| Grant managementAmpliFund, Euna | — | — | — | |
| AI section-writersGrantable, ChatGPT, Claude | — | Partial | — | — |
| NexGrantThe completion platform |
NexGrant does all four. You don’t keep a discovery subscription on the side, and you don’t hand the finished package to a separate system to track.
No grant writer? NexGrant is your grant department. Have one? It is the leverage that lets them run three times the pipeline.
One person runs the whole town. Nobody has a spare week for a 50-page federal application.
See the detail for Towns under 1,000 →One grant writer, a real pipeline, and winnable grants that run out of hours before they are submitted.
See the detail for Towns of 1,000–5,000 →Every department qualifies. Every department is short-staffed. It is capacity, not eligibility.
See the detail for Rural counties →Formula money keeps the lights on. The CTE lab and the counselors live in grants nobody gets to.
See the detail for Schools and districts →The development director is the founder, at midnight. Grants are existential and there is no help.
See the detail for Nonprofits under $1M →A good, lean team with three times the opportunities they can write. Leverage, not headcount.
See the detail for Nonprofits $1M–$5M →Our AI reads the agency’s published evaluation criteria, then grades your draft the way the federal review panel will. You see your score, the weak sections, and exactly what to fix. Most reviewers reject on three or four things. We tell you which three or four.
Other tools force you to use Grants.gov for federal, Candid for foundations, and a different scraper for each state. NexGrant unifies all three. You search once. Nothing falls through the cracks.
Everyone else stops at a draft and hands you a Word doc to re-key into a federal workspace. We don’t. Once your package clears pre-submission grading, one click files it directly through our authenticated Grants.gov integration — forms, attachments, and all. The confirmation and tracking number land back on your award automatically.
We carry the largest unified library of federal, state, and foundation grants in the industry — but no database catches everything. So we built the escape hatch: drop in any NOFO or RFP we haven’t indexed, and our AI grant writer drafts the full application against its requirements. There is no grant you can’t pursue through NexGrant.
NexGrant reads the requirements in the notice of funding and writes the whole application: the full narrative, every required attachment, and the federal forms that have to be filed with it. Not an outline. Not a starting point. A submission-ready package built to what the funder actually asked for.
Winning the grant is the easy part. Staying compliant is what loses awards. NexGrant tracks reporting deadlines, payment schedules, drawdown rates, and audit readiness — so you never miss a quarterly report or trigger a federal review.
What we guarantee is a complete, checked, reviewer-tested application, filed on time — which beats a blank page and a deadline every time.
One finished federal application costs $15,000–$25,000 from a consultant. Every plan delivers complete, filed applications for a fraction of that — with no per-application fee.
Small towns & nonprofits filing a few a year
billed monthly
Towns and orgs running a real pipeline
billed monthly
Counties, districts & growing nonprofits
billed monthly
Multi-agency & high-volume operations
billed monthly
A grant writer is the obvious answer until you price one. Here is what the same federal output costs three different ways.
1.32 fully-loaded FTE grant writers at full capacity — plus recruiting, turnover, and ramp.
A typical finished federal application, billed per grant and capped by their hours.
15 filed applications a year — about $436 each, with no per-application fee.
21× cheaper than staffing the same federal output in-house.
And roughly 1,725 staff hours returned to program delivery each year — close to a full FTE-year — because each application drops from about 116 hours to one.
A finished application. The complete narrative addressing every scored requirement, factual claims tied to a citation registry, the SF-424 family filled in and cross-validated against your budget, a compliance check, and a reviewer-style QA pass. You approve; NexGrant files it end-to-end to Grants.gov.
No, and anyone who does is selling you something. Funders decide awards. What we guarantee is a complete, compliance-checked, reviewer-tested application filed on time — which beats a blank page and a deadline every time.
Factual claims tie to a citation registry rather than being generated freely, and every section carries a QA pass that checks each claim against its source before the package is considered ready.
As an SBA-certified SDVOSB, NexGrant is eligible for federal sole-source award under FAR 19.14. State, county and municipal buyers follow their own rules, and purchases made with federal pass-through funds must still be competed under 2 CFR 200.318–320. We support whichever path your attorney requires.
Start a free trial to see the grants your organization matches with — plus a sample application that shows exactly how NexGrant writes. No cost to look.
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