Understanding Our Scoring Systems

How GrantCue Helps You Find the Right Grants

GrantCue separates opportunity alignment from application preparedness, and shows the evidence and missing inputs behind both.

Comparing Our Scoring Systems

FeatureProfile MatchFit & ReadinessAI Recommendations
PurposeBasic eligibility checkSeparate fit from readinessDiscover new grants
Available OnFree planEssentials+ plansEssentials+ plans
EvidenceProfile settingsNOFO, organization profile, verified history, and linked filingsBehavior and content signals
UncertaintyNot reportedEvidence-coverage confidence and missing inputsRanking signals
Best ForQuick filteringPrioritizing work with contextFinding opportunities
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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.

Configure your profile in Organization Settings to improve matching evidence.

Profile Match Example

Category Match (Education)+30
Location Match (California)+20
Amount Match ($50K-$500K)+20
Base Score+30
Total Score100/100

Evidence-Backed Analysis

Eligibility and focus alignment
Opportunity fit

Compares NOFO category and eligibility fields with your organization profile.

Funding range alignment
Opportunity fit

Compares the documented award range with your configured funding range.

Verified agency outcomes
Opportunity fit

Uses your recorded awarded and submitted outcomes; no history is reported as missing.

Deadline time
Application readiness

Uses the documented close date to show preparation time.

Profile and application inputs
Application readiness

Uses profile completeness and confirmed materials. Missing drafts, budgets, filings, or attachments are shown as gaps.

Essentials+

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.

Essentials+

AI Recommendations

A hybrid recommendation engine that discovers grants based on content and saved-grant patterns from similar organizations.

How Recommendations Work

  • User-Based Collaborative Filtering (45%)

    Finds organizations with similar grant-saving patterns, then recommends grants they've saved that you haven't seen.

  • Item-Based Collaborative Filtering (25%)

    Finds grants frequently saved together with ones you've liked.

  • Content-Based Features (30%)

    Matches on category, agency familiarity, and funding range from your profile.

The Recommendation Pipeline

  1. 1Build interaction vectors from your saved/submitted grants
  2. 2Calculate similarity with other organizations
  3. 3Find the most relevant similar organizations
  4. 4Rank grants using those interaction signals
  5. 5Combine collaborative and content-based features

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