How GrantCue scores grants
GrantCue separates opportunity alignment from application preparedness, and shows the evidence and missing inputs behind both.
Comparing our scoring systems
Free
Profile match score
A quick eligibility check against your organization's profile settings, calculated instantly in your browser.
How it works
Category Match (30 points)
Does the grant's funding category match your focus areas?
Location Match (20 points)
Is the grant available in your primary geographic regions?
Amount Match (20 points)
Does the funding amount fall within your target range?
Base Score (30 points)
Starting score for all grants.
After signing up, configure your organization profile to improve matching evidence.
All plans
Opportunity fit & application readiness
Separates whether an opportunity aligns with your organization from whether the application is ready to pursue. Neither score predicts whether you will win.
What every score includes
Opportunity fit
How documented eligibility, focus area, funding range, and prior agency outcomes align.
Application readiness
How prepared the application appears from deadline time, profile completeness, and confirmed materials.
Evidence-coverage confidence
How many expected source categories are present. This is not a statistical confidence interval.
Evidence and missing inputs
The exact source reference and fields used, plus every material gap such as an unlinked Form 990 or missing draft.
Version identifiers
Score and evidence contract versions make changes auditable over time.
Top 3 on Free, all on Essentials+
AI recommendations
Grants from GrantCue's catalog, scored against your organization profile by fixed rules, then checked by an AI model before any of them is shown.
What the score weighs
Relevance
How closely the grant's text matches your mission, programs and focus, by keyword and by meaning.
Focus category
Whether the grant's funding category is one of your focus areas.
Applicant type
Whether the grant names your kind of organization. A grant whose rules exclude you is never recommended.
Funding fit
Whether the award size suits the funding range and budget in your profile.
Agency familiarity
A small lift when you have saved grants from the same agency or funder before and this one also fits your work.
Deadline
Whether there is enough time left to prepare an application.
A factor GrantCue knows nothing about is left out of the average rather than counted as zero. Location is not scored: each card says whether the grant covers where you work.
On a paid plan with a complete profile, the model also rates mission fit, capacity, track record and strategic value, writes a short reason for each grant, and its rating is blended into the score. On the Free plan, or while a profile is incomplete, the model checks the best candidates without writing anything, and Free shows the top 3 that pass.
Related guides
Unlock evidence-backed prioritization
Start free, then choose a plan to compare opportunity fit, application readiness, evidence coverage, and personalized recommendations before committing your team's time.