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Grant proposals grounded in your real financial story.

Grant narratives require weaving together your mission, your programs, and your financial reality — and funders can tell when the financial section feels generic or disconnected from the rest of the proposal.

Grant Writer drafts from your actual numbers. Your real budget, your real program costs, your real revenue mix — assembled into narrative sections that hold up because the figures underneath them are true.

What funders look for in a financial narrative

If you’ve never written this section before, here’s what a program officer is actually reading for.

Consistency with your 990 and audit. Funders check. A budget that doesn’t reconcile with your public filings is the fastest way to lose credibility.

A realistic cost per participant. Not just the program’s total cost, but what it costs to serve one person — and whether that number is defensible against similar organizations.

Honest overhead. Understating administrative costs reads as either naive or evasive. Funders increasingly expect to see real indirect costs, not a suspiciously lean 5%.

Diversified revenue. A proposal from an organization funded 80% by one source raises a sustainability question you should answer before it’s asked.

A plan for after the grant. “What happens when this funding ends” is on nearly every application, and it’s the question most likely to be answered with something vague.

Grant Writer drafts each of these from your organization’s actual financial history, so the numbers reconcile and the narrative matches the reality.

Your needs statement, backed by real data

Every proposal asks you to establish need. Most nonprofits answer it from memory, or with a statistic someone found once and has been recycling for three years.

If you’ve set up your service area, Grant Writer draws on it directly — poverty rates, food insecurity, transportation access, and health indicators for the ZIP codes you actually serve, combined with population-weighted math rather than averaged across a county.

So instead of “our community faces significant economic hardship,” the draft says “31% of households across our three-ZIP service area fall below the poverty line, and 18% report lacking reliable transportation to services.” One is a sentence a reviewer skims. The other is a sentence they can act on.

The financial narrative and the needs statement come from the same system, which is also why they don’t contradict each other.

Every proposal asks you to establish need. Most nonprofits answer it from memory, or with a statistic someone found once and has been recycling for three years.

The financial narrative and the needs statement come from the same system, which is also why they don’t contradict each other.

How it works

Select the funder and grant opportunity

Provide program context and narrative direction

Grant Writer drafts proposal sections using your organization’s real financial data

Review, edit, and export in Word or PDF

Grant Writer generating two project concepts from a funder's RFP and the organization's own mission and budget

A generated grant draft, cropped. Click to expand — the full draft runs longer than the screenshot shows.

What it produces

A drafted grant proposal with financial sections that accurately reflect your organization’s actual budget, revenue, and program costs.

Who uses this

Development directors, EDs at organizations without a dedicated grant writer, program staff assembling funder reports.

Grant Writer FAQ

Will this write the entire grant application for us?

Grant Writer drafts proposal sections, especially the financial narrative, using your real data. A real person on your team should always review the full draft carefully before submitting — Grant Writer gives you a strong, accurate starting point, not a final submission-ready document.

Does it know about specific funder requirements?

Grant Writer incorporates funder research where available, alongside your organization's data.

How many grants can we write?

Unlimited on Core and above.

Should we review the draft before sending it to a funder?

Yes, always. Every draft should be reviewed by someone at your organization who knows the funder relationship and the specifics of your ask before it goes out. Treat Grant Writer as a fast, well-informed first draft — not a substitute for your own judgment.

What if we've never written a grant before?

Grant Writer is built to help organizations at any experience level — it drafts a structured starting point you can refine, rather than requiring you to already know grant-writing conventions.

Will a funder be able to tell it was AI-drafted?

They'll be reading your organization's real numbers, your program details, and whatever you edited in — not generic language. The draft is a starting point you shape. We're also building voice and template matching, so future drafts come out sounding like your organization from the start rather than needing a rewrite.

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