AutoGrant
Design-Partner Program

Know which grants you can actually win — before you write a word.

The AI Grant Operating System for teams that want to pursue the funding they actually fit and draft proposals in their real voice. We score your real odds before you write a word, and a human signs off on everything.

The Shared Success Plan: a board-approvable 5% service fee on what you win, paid from operating funds, never from the grant, and never to staff. No subscription floor, so your grant-function overhead is zero until you actually win.

A peek at the AutoGrant dashboard — illustrative sample data

The difference

Most tools hand you a longer list. We tell you which grants are worth your time.

AutoGrant runs an AI Judge that simulates a funder’s review committee, scoring your real fit and competitive odds before you write a word, so you spend effort where it can actually pay off. It kills the false positives that look right on the surface and cost teams weeks on list-style tools. A better-matched proposal is a better outcome for everyone: your team doesn’t burn weeks on a long shot, and the funder doesn’t field an application that was never a fit. Knowing what to pursue is where most teams waste the most time. It’s where we start.

Scored onMission alignmentCapacity fitCompetitive positionStrategic value

Every score comes with its reasoning, not just a number—explainable, not a black box.

See it score a real grant in a 20-minute walkthrough
An AI review committee weighing a proposal, illustrating AutoGrant's AI Judge
The AI Judge — a simulated funder review committee

Find the grants worth pursuing

We match your mission, funding history, and capacity to the opportunities you're most likely to win, not a longer list to triage.

Write in your voice, faster

Draft stronger proposals far faster, in your organization's voice, written to the funder's rubric, with citations and compliance checks built in, then reviewed by your team.

Never miss a deadline

Keep every deadline, attachment, and requirement in one place, then turn each award into its reports and its renewal. AutoGrant drafts your interim and final reports from the proposal you already wrote, so reporting stops starting from a blank page.

How AutoGrant Works

1

Build A Funding Strategy

We start with your organization—your mission, programs, intended outcomes, past and current funders, and where you need funding most—then shape a strategy to match.

2

Find Aligned Opportunities

Our AI scans thousands of funding sources to surface the grants that best fit your mission and capacity.

3

Draft With AI + Human Review

AI drafts tailored content in your voice. Your team reviews, refines, and approves every section.

4

Submit With Confidence

AutoGrant assembles the full package to the funder's checklist, attachments, page limits, and format rules, and flags what's missing before the deadline. You do the final upload and submit.

Why Teams Choose AutoGrant

Responsible and beneficial AI, by design — not as an afterthought.

Every consequential step has a human checkpoint, your data never trains a model, and the pre-submission gate can't be turned off. Trust isn't a setting in AutoGrant — it's the architecture.

Keep Humans In Control
You approve every word. AutoGrant never submits a proposal without explicit human sign-off, on any autonomy setting.
Human control is wired in, not a setting you toggle. Your AI team drafts, researches, and prepares. Four checkpoints keep you in the loop, and the last one—your sign-off before anything is submitted—is permanent.

What stays yours: the funder relationship and the call, the truth of every outcome and capacity claim, the strategic narrative judgment, and the final submission.

AutoGrant is a signatory to the Fundraising.AI Framework for Responsible and Beneficial AI. Human control isn't our marketing — it's a standard we've put our name to. Read the Framework →

Match To The Right Grants
Precision matching surfaces fundable opportunities a thin development team would never have time to find—widening access to funding, not just shortening the list.
Built In Your Voice
The Writer drafts in your mission, brand, and unique impact, not a templated tone shared with every other applicant.
Manage The Full Lifecycle
Discovery, drafting, submission, reporting, renewal. Every grant, document, and relationship stays in one place.
What donors are telling the sector
92%

of donors say nonprofits should disclose where AI is used — and how humans stay in control.

AutoGrant was built that way from day one.

61%

of donors now name enhancing fundraising as AI's top benefit, ahead of cost savings.

53%

of donors want AI to improve impact measurement and reporting, up ~20 points year over year.

Source: Fundraising.AI, Donor Perceptions of AI 2025 (survey of 1,031 U.S. donors). Third-party research, cited as context — not AutoGrant data.

Who's behind it

Built by Chris Grecsek—founder of Centered Networks, who has spent twenty years building technology for nonprofits and foundations, including grants-management software he built and sold to Blackbaud.

How we work with you

We don’t hand you software and wish you luck.

On the Shared Success Plan you log in and the system works your pipeline today. Early on we work alongside your team to tune it to your funders, your data, and your voice, then you run it.

We learn your operation

Your funders, your data, your review process, your voice. We start by understanding how your team actually works, not by handing you a login.

We customize, not configure

The system is tuned to your funder portfolio and your workflow during the engagement, not bent to fit a generic template.

You stay in control

Nothing is ever submitted without your explicit sign-off. Human checkpoints gate every consequential step.

The Shared Success Plan

Pay only when you win.

The full AutoGrant platform — your AI grant team and the complete discover-to-renew lifecycle — with no upfront cost and no subscription floor. Your grant-function overhead stays at zero until a win pays for it.

Use the platform

Shared Success Plan

You pay a 5% service fee only when you win.

The full AutoGrant platform, ready today. No subscription floor, no upfront cost. The fee comes from your operating budget, never from the grant. It is a board-approvable technology-and-service fee, not a commission, and it is cleaner overhead than fractional grant staff — a cost that exists only when funding arrives. Roughly 40 organizations have already run it through their boards.

Score one of your real grants — free, 20 minutes

Pricing is quoted in the qualifying call. On federal contracts we use a fixed fee instead of a success fee. See the full breakdown.

The financial case

A win-only fee is cleaner on your books than a grant salary.

Most teams cover grant work with fractional staff or a retained consultant, a fixed cost you carry whether or not anything is won. The Shared Success Plan replaces that with a variable fee you pay only on a win, from your unrestricted operating funds, never from the grant. In a year you win nothing, your grant-function overhead is zero. In a year you win, your program funding grows. Both move the program-to-total-expense ratio funders weigh in the direction they reward.

Overhead down

A fixed cost, fractional grant staff and consultants paid win or lose, becomes a variable one. Your grant-function overhead is effectively zero until there's a win to pay it from.

Program base up

Every win grows your program spending, the other side of the ratio funders read on your 990.

Where it lands on the books

Supporting services, alongside the people it replaces, paid from operating funds. Never program expense. Never charged to or reimbursed by the grant.

Board-grade by design

A board-approvable technology-and-service fee, structured to comply with the AFP and GPA ethics codes that prohibit percentage-based fundraiser pay. On federal contracts we use a fixed fee instead.

The fee sits in the same supporting-services line as the staff and consultants it replaces. It is never program expense, and it is never charged to the grant.

Walk your finance lead and board through the structure

Are you a grant writer or consultant?

We’re building AutoGrant with practitioners, not around them. If you’d want to work alongside the system, as a reviewer, a partner, or a design collaborator, we’d like to talk.

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Frequently Asked Questions

See it score one of your real grants in 20 minutes.

Bring a funder you're considering. We'll show you the fit score and the reasoning behind it, live. No slideware.