Build My Grant Application & Funding Case · $350 · one time
Paste the actual application. Then say what is different about this place, what people closest to the work know, and who decides what counts. Those answers change the program design, the measures, the budget and every draft you download.
For: One real application you have in hand
Bring
In your guided workspace
You keep
Your application draft in Word and PDF, a saved Grant Evidence & Monitoring Workbook and a saved Grant Cycle & Program Record.
Fictional preview Fictional: letter of inquiry to Riverbend Community Foundation for $40,000, with two [bracketed] facts still to add.
Your work product: An application draft in Word and PDF, a saved workbook and a saved grant-cycle record.
How it works
The guidelines or questions from the funder, as published. No imagined template.
The builder lists the requirements it reads in your text, so you answer those and nothing else.
This place, its barriers, the trust pathways the work travels through, and what people closest to the work know, each with its source and consent.
Program design, logic model, measures, budget and narrative change with those answers. Required measures stay beside the ones your community defines.
The budget is checked against the work. Anything you have not shown stays marked unknown. Nothing is turned into proof of cause.
Export to Word and PDF. Your paid level keeps a saved Grant Evidence & Monitoring Workbook and a Grant Cycle & Program Record with thirteen drafts, including an evaluation and measurement plan.
Fictional example · computed by the room's own code
Most proposal tools fill a template. This room asks what a template cannot know, and the answers change what you send. Your community's knowledge counts as evidence when you record it like evidence: who holds it, how you learned it, where it holds and whether people agreed to share it.
Statement of need
Program narrative
Budget justification
Evaluation and measurement plan
Budget: the room points to interpretation and translation, transportation (fares or rides), community measure validation sessions (stipends, food, space), read from the answers. It suggests no amounts. You price them.
Consent holds: knowledge 3 was not cleared to share. It appears in none of the thirteen drafts.
Community knowledge explains how things work in a place. The room never turns it into proof that a program caused a result, never writes quotes, interviews or results you did not enter, and never states who is eligible for Medicaid or any public program. The funder's required measures stay in the plan beside the ones your community defines.
Look inside · Fictional sample
One real application, worked from the guidelines you paste in and from what is true about your place. The fictional tenant group below is applying to an invented foundation.
Made for you if
Staff and board members of community organizations applying for a specific foundation, corporate or public grant who want the draft, the evidence and the budget to agree with each other.
You already know the people. The challenge is showing the funder what you know without making your community sound like a problem waiting for permission.
Not this: It does not search for grants, match you to funders or submit anything for you.
8 finished files2 worksheets you keep
Finished files, worksheets and the places you work are counted separately, never added together. The draft is finished as far as your facts go. Anything you have not given stays marked missing, with what to add. A person still reads it before it is sent.
What you bring
2 Grant Builder files
Built against the guidelines you paste in.
6 files from your Grant Cycle record
The proposal drafts: Statement of need, Executive summary, Program narrative, Case for support, Letter of inquiry, Cover letter, Budget justification, Partner letter request, Donor thank-you and update, Organization profile, Funder progress email, Evaluation and measurement plan, Note to the funder: what makes this award workable.
1 Grant Evidence & Monitoring Workbook
9 sections tied to this grant: Logic model, Metric dictionary, Evidence ledger, Before and after plan, Grant obligations, Learning review and decision log, Retained value, Monitoring, Review. Saved to your account; print it to PDF.
10 tabs in the Grant Lifecycle Workbook (Excel)
Filled in from your record. Formulas stay live, so it keeps working after you download it.
7 parts in the included Grant Cycle & Program Record
One saved record for your grants, money, outcomes and board.
Free templates that pair with it
Free for everyone in the free template library. Not part of the purchase and not counted above.
Your application draft in Word and PDF, a saved Evidence & Monitoring Workbook, and a Grant Cycle & Program Record (PDF and Word) that holds the draft beside your logic model, measures, budget lines, deadlines and reports. The record also gives you thirteen proposal drafts in Word and PDF, including an evaluation and measurement plan, built from what is true about your place, plus a board snapshot and a ten-tab Excel workbook.
Your saved work waits for you. The builder asks what you want to make possible before it reads the opportunity.
Made by the same generator buyers use, with the invented organization above. Nothing in them is real.
What it does not do. No person reviews your draft, nothing is submitted for you, and no award is promised. The builder does not find grants or match you to funders.
Fictional example · not a real funder
| The application asks | Your stated evidence | Gap or next step |
|---|---|---|
| Describe the need | Family interview notes | Confirm dates and consent |
| Itemized budget | Rent and staffing quotes | Confirm period and shared costs |
| Explain the change you expect | Attendance log | Shows participation, not cause; stays marked |
Free draft
Sign in, paste the application and get a draft with what is missing named, in Word or PDF. Your latest draft stays on your account so you can pick it up again. That is all it keeps.
$350 self-directed
The same builder, plus two saved rooms. The Grant Evidence & Monitoring Workbook keeps your evidence, outcomes and open questions with the application. The Grant Cycle & Program Record holds every Grant Builder draft you bring in, beside your logic model, indicators, budget lines with checks, deadlines, award money and reports, with PDF and Word downloads.
Not included
A person's review, submission, funder matching or any promise of an award.
Your organization
Use it before any specific grant, when you are not sure your records, numbers and language will hold up.
You keep: A Capital Pursuit Brief™ PDF, your corrected language in Word and a saved Grant Cycle & Program Record.
It does not write a grant application.
See the six modules →One real application · this page
Use it when an application is open and you need a case that answers its actual questions.
You keep: Your application draft in Word and PDF, a saved Grant Evidence & Monitoring Workbook and a saved Grant Cycle & Program Record.
It does not fix your organization's records or language.
Have both problems? If the deadline is close, start with the application. If the basics are shaky, start with Get Me Ready.
