AutoGrant for social-impact companies
Find funding that fits both the public benefit and the business.
AutoGrant helps mission-led companies separate real opportunities from grants that exclude for-profit applicants, then evaluate the technical, public-benefit, partnership, evidence, and delivery conditions required to compete.
- Directly eligible
- Eligible as a partner, vendor, subrecipient, or subcontractor
- Relevant to the program but not an eligible applicant
Legitimate applicant path first
Directly eligible, partner role, or no-go — confirmed before anyone writes.
No manufactured workarounds
Partnerships must be legitimate and consistent with funder and procurement rules.
Leadership decision recorded
The pursue-or-pass call is documented before drafting begins.
Human-authorized submission
Final commitments and authorization stay with people.
Eligibility
Why eligibility is not obvious
Many grants are written for nonprofits, public agencies, universities, tribal entities, or specific small-business mechanisms. A company may be:
AutoGrant should identify the legitimate applicant path before the company spends time writing or attempts to create an artificial structure.
- Directly eligible
- Eligible only under a research or innovation mechanism
- Eligible as a partner, vendor, subrecipient, or subcontractor
- Relevant to the program but not an eligible applicant
- Technically eligible but strategically misaligned
- Better served by revenue, investment, procurement, or partnership instead
Approved context
Company impact profile
Approved context can include:
- Mission and public-benefit thesis
- Product or service
- Target population and geography
- Outcomes and impact evidence
- Business model and customers
- Technical or service-delivery capacity
- Partnerships
- Research and innovation
- Corporate structure and eligibility attributes
- Financial and sustainability model
- Intellectual property
- Prior awards and public-sector work
- Strategic priorities and exclusions
Company context stays governed.
AI Judge
Six questions AI Judge puts to every opportunity
Applicant eligibility
Does the program permit a for-profit applicant? If not, is there a legitimate partner role consistent with the program and procurement rules?
Public-benefit fit
Does the proposed work advance the public outcome the funder is trying to create, or is it primarily a commercial sale?
Evidence and impact
Can the company support the need, approach, outcomes, equity, evaluation, and public value with credible evidence?
Delivery and financial capacity
Can the company perform, report, manage costs, sustain the work, and accept restrictions or cost-sharing?
Competitive position
Does the company bring technology, speed, access, cost, evidence, partnerships, or a delivery model that is relevant to the program?
Strategic value
Does the award advance product, evidence, market access, partnerships, or public impact—or impose obligations that distort the business?
Example verdict
What an honest read looks like
Do not pursue directly
The program funds nonprofit and local-government applicants only. The company may be relevant as a technology partner, but the opportunity should proceed only through a legitimate eligible lead with a clear community-delivery role—not as a workaround for commercial sales.
A no-go or partner-path recommendation is a valuable outcome.
Define the company’s impact, product, evidence, and strategy.
Organize public, research, innovation, corporate, and partnership opportunities.
Confirm applicant path and restrictions.
Evaluate public-benefit fit, evidence, delivery, financial implications, competition, and strategic value.
Record the leadership decision.
Extract requirements and partner dependencies.
Draft from verified company and impact evidence.
Review technical, impact, business, financial, legal, and partnership commitments.
Require final authorization.
Preserve award obligations, results, and future pathways.
Human + AI
Human responsibilities
People retain responsibility for:
- Corporate and applicant eligibility
- Legal structure
- Partnership and procurement integrity
- Technical and impact claims
- Commercial and financial decisions
- Intellectual property
- Commercialization and strategy
- Final commitments and authorization
Ways to get AutoGrant
Platform or Enterprise
AutoGrant Platform
Platform may fit an impact company with a focused non-dilutive strategy and standard hosted needs.
AutoGrant Enterprise
Enterprise may fit a larger impact company, portfolio, regulated organization, or organization requiring customer-controlled deployment, integration, multiple operating groups, or a wider grant-capacity transformation.
Social-impact companies
FAQ
Score the opportunity before the company commits to the applicant path.
See eligibility, public-benefit fit, evidence, partners, delivery, competition, restrictions, and strategic value.