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Chase  Grant deadlines & reporting desk for small nonprofits

Every grant deadline in one place, and the numbers for each report chased before it's due.

{{BRAND}} keeps your grant calendar: letters of inquiry, applications, interim reports and final reports. We chase your program staff for the numbers, stories and attachments each one needs, then put a draft together from your own data for your team to finish and submit. A person checks every date and figure. We never submit for you, and we never promise funding.

  • No card needed
  • No software to install
  • Your calendar stays yours
This week · 14 active grantsMon 12 Oct
Due FriFoundation A interim report: enrolment and test numbers are in, volunteer hours and 2 stories still missing
At riskCommunity Foundation C application, due 6 Nov: board list and financial statements not in yet
ReadyFoundation E final report: draft ready for your team to finish
No replyFoundation G: program lead silent after 2 emails + 1 Teams message. We've asked your ED to nudge.
Sample with made-up grants
The problem

Grant dates are easy to write down. The numbers behind them are hard to collect.

The calendar is one person's sheet

Deadlines live in Excel, Airtable, Asana or a personal calendar. When one person manages many grants and then leaves, the dates leave with them.

The numbers sit with program staff

Attendance is in one sheet, spend is in QuickBooks, and the stories are in someone's inbox. Everyone means to send them. Then report week arrives.

Nobody sees the whole picture

Which grants have something due in 90 days? How much of each budget is spent? Who is still owed an answer? You can only find out by asking five people.

A grant coordinator is a full salary most small nonprofits can't add. {{BRAND}} keeps the calendar and chases the inputs for a flat fee from $150 a month. Your own staff keep the voice, the judgement and the sign-off.

How it works

Three steps. You can start this week.

Send us your grants

Share the sheet you already use (Excel, Google Sheets, Airtable or Asana), or just your award letters and funder guidelines. Tell us who owns each grant and who holds each set of numbers. One short call or email is enough.

We build the calendar and start chasing

Every letter of inquiry, application, interim report and final report goes in with its due date, what the funder asks for and who supplies it. We ask your staff for each item well before the date, and follow up until we get it.

You get a draft to finish

We assemble a report draft in the funder's template or your own document, with figures from your records, the source of each one, and any gaps marked. Your team finishes it, your lead reviews it, and you submit it from your own funder portal.

What changes hands

What you send, and what you get every week

You send (once, then when something changes)

  • Your grant list, or edit access to the one sheet where you track it
  • Award letters, funder guidelines and reporting templates
  • Who owns each grant, and who supplies the numbers and stories
  • A budget-to-actual export from QuickBooks (or your accounting system) when a report needs spend
  • Who should get the weekly digest, and your time zone

You get (every week)

  • A Monday digest: what's due, what's at risk, what's ready and who hasn't answered
  • A grant calendar in your own sheet, with 90, 60 and 30-day look-aheads
  • Every request to your staff logged: asked, received, still missing
  • Report drafts with a source next to each figure and gaps marked
  • A checklist of attachments for each application, collected for you
  • A real person to reply to: {{FIRST_NAME}}
Sample digest and report draft

What you'd read on a Monday morning

Short, sorted by what needs you, and followed by the draft your team finishes. This sample uses made-up funders, programs and numbers.

From {{FIRST_NAME}} at {{BRAND}}
Subject Grant desk, week of 12 Oct: 2 due this week, 2 at risk, 2 ready, 1 no reply

Due this week (2)

  • Foundation A · Youth Reading · interim report, due Fri 16 Oct. Enrolment (240) and test results (212 children) are in the draft. Still waiting on two short stories and the volunteer hours from Jordan. Asked 5 Oct and 9 Oct.
  • County Fund B · Food Pantry · Q3 report, due Thu 15 Oct. Households served and pounds distributed are in. Spend by budget line needs the 30 Sep QuickBooks export. Dana has it but hasn't sent it.

At risk (2)

  • Community Foundation C · Housing Help · application, due Fri 6 Nov. The board list and latest financial statements are not in yet. The portal needs both uploaded.
  • State Agency D · Senior Meals · Q3 attendance report, due Fri 30 Oct. Sites 1 and 3 are in. Site 2's attendance sheet is missing.

Ready for your team to finish (2)

  • Foundation E · Digital Skills · final report, due 30 Nov. Draft ready, 3 stories in. Alex to review the narrative.
  • Trust F · letter of inquiry, due Mon 26 Oct. IRS determination letter, board list and one-page budget collected. The letter text is with Sam.

No response (1)

  • Foundation G · Family Support · interim report, due 13 Nov. Program lead hasn't answered 2 emails + 1 Teams message since 28 Sep. We've asked your ED to nudge. We'll try again Wednesday.
7 other active grants have nothing due in the next 30 days. Full calendar: your Google Sheet
Checked by {{FIRST_NAME}} · reply to this email with any question

The draft figures for the Foundation A interim report

In your document, each figure carries its source. Gaps are marked for your team, not filled in by us.

The funder asks forDraft figureWhere it came from
Children enrolled, 1 Jan to 30 Sep240Enrolment sheet, 9 Oct
Children with a start and an end reading test212 of 240Assessment sheet. 28 not yet re-tested; noted in the draft.
Volunteer hours, 1 Jan to 30 SepMissingAsked Jordan on 5 and 9 Oct
Two participant storiesMissingAsked Jordan: 3–4 sentences each, no names or photos
Spent on tutor stipends$14,980 of $22,400QuickBooks export, 30 Sep (67%)
Spent on the whole grant$31,250 of $48,000QuickBooks export, 30 Sep (65%, with 75% of the grant year gone)
From {{FIRST_NAME}} at {{BRAND}}, for Priya (Development Director)
To Jordan, Youth Reading program lead
Subject Foundation A interim report, due Fri 16 Oct: 2 items by Wed 14 Oct

Hi Jordan,

Priya asked us to help get the Foundation A interim report ready. The enrolment and test numbers are in the draft already, thank you.

Two things are still missing: (1) the volunteer hours from 1 Jan to 30 Sep (a rough total is fine), and (2) two short participant stories, 3–4 sentences each, with no names or photos.

Could you reply by Wed 14 Oct so Priya has a day to review before it's due? If it's easier, paste them straight into the shared draft.

Thanks,
{{FIRST_NAME}}

Pricing

Priced by how many grants are active, not by seat

An active grant is any application or award with something still due: a letter of inquiry, an application, or a report.

Up to 8 active grants
$150/month
For a small team with a handful of funders
Up to 20 active grants
$300/month
For a development director with a full calendar
Up to 40 active grants
$500/month
For several programs, or a lot of small funders

Every plan includes

  • Your grant calendar, built from your award letters
  • 90, 60 and 30-day look-aheads and a Monday digest
  • Chasing your program staff for numbers, stories and attachments
  • Report drafts from your own data, with a source for each figure
  • Attachment checklists for applications and letters of inquiry
  • You submit; we never log in to your funder portals
  • A named person, not a ticket queue
  • Monthly billing, cancel any time
  • Over 40 active grants? Ask us.

Free for 2 weeks on the grants due in the next 90 days. No card, no contract.

Start the free trial

For context: job posts for grant coordinators in US nonprofits, cities and universities list about $60,000–127,000 a year. Offshore grant assistants advertise about $250–950 a month, and a general offshore assistant about $500–1,400, plus the time it takes you to train and check them. A part-time grant assistant can cost less than our two upper plans, but the calendar then depends on one hire, and leaves when they do.
What we don't do: submit applications or reports for you, sign certifications, find funders or write new applications, give accounting, audit or legal advice, judge whether a cost is allowable under a grant, solicit gifts or grants, or touch your bank or any money.

Questions

FAQ

Who are you?

{{BRAND}} is run by {{FIRST_NAME}} in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The work runs on email, shared sheets and documents, so the time difference doesn't slow it down: requests reach your staff in their morning, and their answers are logged before your next working day starts.

What access do you need?

As little as possible: edit access to one calendar sheet, a folder with your award letters, funder guidelines and reporting templates, and the figures your staff send us. For spend we only need a budget-to-actual export from QuickBooks or your accounting system, or a read-only user if you'd rather. We never need your funder portal logins, your bank, or passwords to your email.

Is my data safe?

Your award letters, budgets and report figures are used only to keep your calendar and draft your reports. They're kept in our Google Workspace account with 2-step login, and seen only by the person working on your account. They're never shared or sold, and are deleted within 7 days if you leave. Please send counts and anonymous stories only, with no names of the people you serve. We can't take health records (including anything covered by HIPAA), legal or social-work case files, or anything that identifies a child. We're happy to sign your NDA, and if any personal data does reach us we handle it as your processor and will sign a data processing agreement. Ask for our one-page data promise.

Is this software or people?

People, with good tools. Software helps us sort what comes in and draft messages and tables. A person reads every reply, checks every date against your award letter, and checks every figure against its source before it goes into a draft.

How do you work with my program staff?

By email from our desk address (copying your grants lead), from an address on your own domain, or in a shared Slack or Teams channel if that's where your team answers. Each request is one specific ask with a date. If someone stays silent after two asks, we tell your grants lead and your ED in the digest instead of nagging.

Can you handle federal or state grants?

We can put their dates in the calendar, chase the numbers, and draft from your figures. Federal awards have their own cost rules (the Uniform Guidance), and many state grants add their own. Whether a cost is allowable, how it's charged, and any certification are for your finance lead or auditor, not us.

What counts as an active grant?

Any application or award with something still due. A multi-year award with a report every quarter is one active grant. A grant that's fully reported and closed stops counting. Letters of inquiry in progress count too. We'll agree the list with you at the start.

What don't you do?

We don't submit applications or reports, log in to funder portals, sign certifications, or contact a funder or program officer unless you ask us to. We don't find funders, write new applications or promise funding. We don't give accounting, audit or legal advice, judge whether costs are allowable, or collect or move money. We aren't a professional fundraiser or fundraising counsel, and we never solicit gifts or grants for you. We charge a flat monthly fee, never a share of any grant.

What happens after the free trial?

After the 2 weeks, pick a plan or stop. Either way the calendar, the drafts and every log we made are yours.

How do I pay?

A monthly invoice that you can pay by bank transfer (US ACH or UK bank transfer) or by card.

Free 2-week trial

Start with the grants due in the next 90 days

Tell us roughly how many grants are active and where you track them. {{FIRST_NAME}} will reply within one working day with a short setup list. We aim to have your calendar built and the first requests out within a few working days of getting your award letters.

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We use these details only to reply to you. No card, no obligation. Privacy