Grants Cloud Pricing: Tiers, Seats and Comparison

Grants Cloud pricing has no single answer, because no single product owns the name. Four different products are plausible matches, from a software directory listing with no named vendor to Salesforce's grantmaking edition, and only one of them publishes a price (vendor and directory pages, read September 2026).

The one published figure belongs to a funder system sold per user, billed annually on an annual contract, so even that price becomes a budget only once you count the people who need a license (Salesforce, Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking Pricing, read September 2026).

GrantCue sells one of the applicant tools priced in this guide, so every competitor figure below is tied to a public source and the date it was read.

Quick Answer: What Does Grants Cloud Cost?

No single product owns the name Grants Cloud, so there is no one price. Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking is the only candidate with a published price: $285 per user per month for its one edition, Grantmaking Max, billed annually (Salesforce pricing page, read October 2026). SBS Manager's Grants Cloud, Mavens Research & Grants Cloud and the Grants Cloud directory listing show no price.

Which Grants Cloud Do You Mean?

Four products are plausible matches for the name, and three of them serve organizations that receive funding requests and pay out money. Match what you saw to one row before you ask anyone for a price.

Sources: CrowdReviews, SBS Manager and Mavens pages (read September 2026); Salesforce pricing page (read October 2026).

The directory listing is the one with the least behind it. CrowdReviews carries a "Grants Cloud" listing with no vendor description, marked "Unverified. No Reviews.", ranked 38 of 76 in grant management software, with an address in Ashburn, Virginia (CrowdReviews, read September 2026). The same directory keeps pages for Abila Grant Management, CC Grant Tracker and Grants Network (CrowdReviews directory pages, read September 2026), so a buyer browsing it meets all four names side by side.

The name also turns up in print. A published review of a grant-writing textbook reports that the book lists software programs "including Wizehive, Grants Network, Regpack, Fluid Review, Flexi-grants, Aims, Grant Manager, GranTracks, and Grants Cloud" (Global Education Review book review, read September 2026). Neither source gives a vendor or a price for that Grants Cloud that can be verified.

The page where you saw the name usually settles the question. A Salesforce pricing page or the words Nonprofit Cloud point to Salesforce's edition; a list of packages with Sponsor Cloud and prices exclusive of VAT points to SBS Manager; investigator-initiated trials and medical education grants point to Mavens. If you met the name through a colleague, a consultant or a proposal, ask them for the vendor's legal name and web address. Without a vendor there is no quote, no contract and no one to support the system.

Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking: Edition and Seats

Salesforce publishes one Grantmaking edition, Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking Max, at $285 per user per month billed annually, and states that "These editions require an annual contract" (Salesforce, Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking Pricing, read October 2026). The same page listed two editions, Enterprise at $175 and Unlimited at $225, when this guide was first researched in September 2026, so check the date on any Salesforce figure you are handed.

Grantmaking Max includes Sales and Service Cloud licenses, Application and Budget Management, and "Grantseeker and Grantee Experiences (100 Customer Community+ login Licenses)" (Salesforce pricing page, read October 2026). The page lists the Premier Success Plan, with 24/7 support, as "Included in all licenses," and prices the general Nonprofit Cloud editions at $70 (Sales & Service Core) and $125 (Sales & Service Advanced) per user per month, billed annually (Salesforce pricing page, read October 2026).

Seat count drives the bill, so run the arithmetic for your own team. Here it is for two funders at list price.

Illustrative figures, not data from a real organization.

At list price each licensed user adds $3,420 a year, so decide early which staff, reviewers and board members need a license of their own. Salesforce says it "offers discounts to eligible nonprofits" that need licenses beyond the donated ones (Salesforce pricing page, read October 2026), so ask for the discounted figure on your own seat count.

Two lower-cost routes deserve a question too. Salesforce says "Through the Power of Us Program any eligible nonprofit receives 10 Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Core licenses, at no cost" (Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Pricing FAQ, read October 2026), so ask whether donated licenses apply to a grantmaking setup. And Outbound Funds is "a customizable foundation for managing funds awarded by your organization, like grants, scholarships or internal funding," an open-source app installed into Salesforce through install.salesforce.org, under the BSD-3-Clause license, with release 1.32 published April 11, 2025 (Outbound Funds repository, read September 2026).

SBS Manager Grants Cloud: Priced Per User, on Request

SBS Manager sells Grants Cloud as one of four packages and publishes no figure for any of them: every package says "Contact us for price" (SBS Manager, Foundations and other contributors, read September 2026). The page adds: "Prices are given per user. All prices are exclusive of VAT and based on a 12 month agreement" (SBS Manager, read September 2026).

The four packages are "Sponsor Cloud", "Grants Cloud", "Stand-alone" and "Enterprise," and Grants Cloud is described as "Digitalization for you who have built an organization around your application management" (SBS Manager, read September 2026). The page sits under the heading Foundations and other contributors, which tells you the buyer: an organization that receives applications and decides who gets money. A nonprofit that applies for grants is the wrong customer.

Three details on that page shape a quote. First, the price is per user, so the definition of a user matters: ask whether reviewers, board members and external experts count as users or log in some other way. Second, the prices exclude VAT, so a buyer should ask which currency the quote uses and how tax applies to its own organization. Third, the prices assume a 12-month agreement (SBS Manager, read September 2026), so ask what renewal looks like after the first term.

One more check is worth making. The page carries a date of September 16, 2016 (SBS Manager, read September 2026), so ask the vendor to confirm that the four packages are still sold as described and that Grants Cloud still differs from Sponsor Cloud in the way the page implies.

Mavens Research & Grants Cloud and the Unnamed Listing

Neither of the remaining candidates shows a price: Mavens' product page lists none, and the directory listing named Grants Cloud gives no vendor to ask (Mavens and CrowdReviews pages, read September 2026). One is a specialist product with a clear vendor; the other cannot be verified at all.

Mavens describes its product as "a Salesforce-powered work management solution for research & grants teams," aimed at life-sciences funding requests such as investigator-initiated trials and medical education grants (Mavens, Research & Grants Cloud, read September 2026). Its buyer is a company that receives and decides on those requests. If that is your world, ask Mavens for a written quote and ask whether it includes the Salesforce licenses the product runs on or whether those are bought separately.

The CrowdReviews listing is a different case. Its page carries a message addressed to "Grants Cloud Representatives" in place of a vendor description, with no reviews (CrowdReviews, read September 2026). A listing with no vendor is not something you can buy, whatever its ranking. Do not attach Salesforce's figures, or anyone else's, to it.

Do not carry a price from one Grants Cloud to another. If a board member or a funder asks for a Grants Cloud budget line, give them the vendor, the edition and the date you saw the price.

Cloud Grant Platforms That Publish Prices

Paid applicant plans start at $19.99 a month billed annually ($25.99 billed monthly) for Grantseeker Classic Premium, while funder systems publish flat annual prices such as $3,950 a year for Good Grants Intro, per-user prices such as Salesforce's $285 per user per month billed annually, or starting prices such as $13,000 a year plus a setup fee for Fluxx Grantmaker (vendor pricing pages, read September 2026; Salesforce and Grantseeker, read October 2026). Sort them by side first, because a funder's system and an applicant's tracker do different jobs.

Sources: vendor pricing pages and the UK Digital Marketplace (read September 2026); Fluxx demo page FAQ (page dated July 25, 2026).

Public order forms add a third kind of price: the figure on one buyer's quote or order form. Hays County, Texas, was quoted $19,000.00 for the renewal term October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026 of a Euna Grants line item named "Grants Local - Grant Seeking Suite - USD 200M to 400M Unlimited Users" (Hays County order form, quote dated April 29, 2025). Weber County, Utah priced "AmpliFund Grant Seeker Advanced for Managing 20M in Annual Grant Revenue" at $22,500.00 a year for three years plus a $12,500.00 one-time implementation fee (Weber County order form, undated, read September 2026). Each is one buyer's record with its own scope, not a list price; the guide to public sector grant software covers that market.

Applicants have the simpler shopping trip: every applicant tool in the comparison publishes a price. The overview of grant management software for nonprofits compares trackers, and the grant database pricing comparison prices the research databases that often sit beside them.

GrantCue sits on the applicant side of that table: it is a grant discovery and management platform, not a grantmaking system, so it is an option for organizations that apply for grants, not for funders. Every new workspace starts with 14 days of the Team plan free with no card needed, and nonprofits get 25% off any paid plan with the code NONPROFIT (grantcue.com, September 2026). The GrantCue plans page shows the users and tracked grants each tier allows.

Questions to Ask Before You Buy a Grants Cloud Product

Ask who the product is built for, who counts as a user, and what the first year costs beyond the subscription. Those three answers decide whether two quotes can be compared at all.

Sources: SBS Manager, Fluxx, SmartSimple and Good Grants pages, and the Weber County order form (read September 2026); Salesforce pricing page (read October 2026).

Where a vendor publishes no price, expect a scoping call before any figure. Euna Solutions explains its own unpublished prices this way: "Grants management needs vary widely across organizations, and applying standard pricing or quoting without scoping would either overcharge a small agency or underprice a larger or more complicated one" (Euna Solutions blog, April 24, 2026). Go into that call with your user count, your number of programs and your annual grant volume written down, since the published pages price on users (Salesforce, SBS Manager) or annual grant volume (Fluxx).

Funders should add one question a price sheet never answers: can the system carry your review process as it runs today, from reviewer assignment through scoring to the committee decision? Bring a real rubric to the demo and ask the vendor to set it up while you watch; the way review panels score proposals shows the parts a review stage has to hold. A system that prices well but forces you to rebuild your rubric in a spreadsheet has moved the cost, not removed it.

FAQ

Is Grants Cloud a Salesforce Product?

Not necessarily. Salesforce sells Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking, and Mavens calls its Research & Grants Cloud "a Salesforce-powered work management solution for research & grants teams" (Mavens, read September 2026). SBS Manager's Grants Cloud is a package from a different vendor, and the CrowdReviews listing called Grants Cloud names no vendor at all (SBS Manager and CrowdReviews pages, read September 2026).

How Much Is Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking Per User?

Grantmaking Max, the one Grantmaking edition, is $285 per user per month, billed annually on an annual contract, while the general Nonprofit Cloud editions are $70 and $125 (Salesforce pricing page, read October 2026). The Premier Success Plan is listed as included in all licenses (Salesforce pricing page, read October 2026). Price the edition on your own seat count.

Can Nonprofits Get Salesforce Licenses Free?

Eligible nonprofits can get some. "Through the Power of Us Program any eligible nonprofit receives 10 Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Core licenses, at no cost" (Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Pricing FAQ, read October 2026). The Grantmaking pricing page lists its own per-user edition, so ask Salesforce whether donated licenses apply to a grantmaking setup before you build a budget on them.

What Is SBS Manager Grants Cloud?

It is one of four packages SBS Manager lists on a page dated September 16, 2016, described as "Digitalization for you who have built an organization around your application management" (SBS Manager, read September 2026). Every package says "Contact us for price," with prices given per user, exclusive of VAT and based on a 12 month agreement (SBS Manager, read September 2026). Confirm the packages are still current before you plan around them.

Why Don't Grant Software Vendors Publish Prices?

One vendor that quotes after scoping explains why. Euna Solutions writes that "applying standard pricing or quoting without scoping would either overcharge a small agency or underprice a larger or more complicated one" (Euna Solutions blog, April 24, 2026). SmartSimple splits its price into a one-time implementation fee and recurring subscription fees (SmartSimple pricing page, read September 2026). Both approaches mean a quote follows a scoping conversation.

Who Uses Mavens Research & Grants Cloud?

Research and grants teams in life sciences. Mavens aims the product at funding requests such as investigator-initiated trials and medical education grants, and describes it as "a Salesforce-powered work management solution for research & grants teams" (Mavens, read September 2026). The product page shows no price, so a buyer needs a written quote.

Name the Vendor, Then Price the Seats

Write down the vendor's name, the edition and the page where you saw Grants Cloud before you compare a single figure. If you cannot name a vendor, treat the listing as unverified and leave it out of the budget.

Then count the people who will need a license, list every program the system must run, and send both numbers with the question table to each vendor on your shortlist. Price Salesforce's Grantmaking edition on that same seat count, at list and with any nonprofit discount, and put the answers in one table dated the day you received them.