Current capabilities
What's live in GrantCue
A snapshot of GrantCue’s current capabilities, grouped by area. This page describes what customers can use; it is not a dated release history or a forecast of future features.
Which capabilities your account can reach depends on your plan; see pricing for that. Where a capability has limits — what the opportunity catalog does and does not cover, what GrantCue will not do for you — those limits are written out in full on each solutions page.
Accounts & teams
- Sign in with a password or an emailed code
- Create organizations and switch between them
- Admin, Contributor and view-only Client roles
- Invite team members by email
- Two-factor sign-in, with an option for the organization to require it
Finding grants
- Federal opportunities from Grants.gov
- State grant coverage: 748 state and state-agency sources across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
- SBIR/STTR open topics
- Ongoing programs listed separately from dated opportunities
- Foundation and corporate funder programs from reviewed publishers
- Free public foundation directory built from IRS 990‑PF filings
- Community foundations, United Ways and other public charities with checked programs, with giving history from Form 990 Schedule I
- Describe what you need in a sentence and get Discover filters to check (the AI reading is on Essentials and up)
- Filters for category, agency, status and days until the deadline
- Sort by relevance, due soon or newest
- Quick search from anywhere (Ctrl+K or Cmd+K)
- Recent searches
- Save grants straight from the results
- Saved searches with email alerts
- Results filtered to your organization’s eligibility profile
- Recommendations scored against your profile and checked by AI; one not checked yet says so
- Foundations matched to your organization from 990‑PF giving
- Who funds an organization, and the funders of your peers
- Officers and trustees from each foundation’s latest filing
- Red flags on each match, and skip rules for what to leave out
Tracking & workflow
- My grants board: Researching, Drafting, Submitted, Awarded
- Several deadlines per grant, on one timeline
- Owner and priority for every grant
- Tasks, with a task list drafted from the funding notice
- Notes and comments with @mentions
- Approval workflows
- Automation rules for stage changes and approaching deadlines
- Programs you watch, with a reminder before they open
- Funding plans: a project budget beside every grant, pledge and match that could pay for it
- Portfolio for consultants: every organization you belong to on one page, a combined tracker you can edit, and client status reports you can share by link
- Custom fields on tracked grants (Team and up)
- Research office for universities: researcher profiles, matching and limited submissions (Team and up)
- Links to files in Google Drive or OneDrive
Reminders & calendar
- Email reminders 30, 14, 7, 3 and 1 days before a deadline, and on the day
- Daily digest email
- Calendar feed (ICS) for Outlook, Google and Apple, and Google Calendar sync
- Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications
Reporting
- Dashboard with submissions, win rate, and dollars requested and awarded
- Deadline success rate and time to submit
- CSV and Excel exports of search results, foundations, a funder’s grants and all of My grants
- A printable status report for each workspace
- Scheduled email reports
Integrations
- Claude and ChatGPT connector for searching grants and foundation profiles
- Slack and Microsoft Teams
- Webhooks for key events
- Google Drive and OneDrive file pickers
- Salesforce and Raiser’s Edge NXT import (Team and up)
- QuickBooks Online spend import (Organization)
Plans & billing
- Free, Essentials, Team, Organization and Enterprise plans
- A free trial on every new workspace
- Discount and promotion codes
- Monthly or annual billing
AI assistance
- Summaries of funding notices: key dates, eligibility and amounts
- Automatic tags for focus area, eligibility and funding type
- Evidence-backed opportunity fit and application readiness
- Deadlines pulled from notice PDFs
- Proposal assistant: outlines, sections and budget narratives
- Drafts started from free templates, and an executive summary drafted from your other sections
- Proposal review with feedback and suggestions
- Your organization profile filled in from your website
- Reusable answers imported from your past proposals
- A check of a draft against each requirement, quoting where it found it
- Award agreements read into tasks and payment dates for you to review (Team and up)
Security & privacy
- Each organization’s data is kept separate by rules the database enforces
- Daily automated backups (the last seven are kept)
- Audit log of who did what and when
- Uploaded documents checked against VirusTotal’s known-malware records
- Data export and retention controls for GDPR and CCPA requests
After the award
- Budgets with line items
- Disbursement logging and payment schedules
- Compliance requirement tracking
- Financial report export (CSV or Excel)
Documents
- Secure uploads with categories
- Version history for each document
Before you submit checklist
- AI-generated or customizable checklists
- Progress tracking
- A check of requirements before you submit