Grant management for every kind of organization

The workflow is the same everywhere: find the opportunity, decide whether it is worth pursuing, get it submitted on time, and manage what happens after the award. What changes is the vocabulary, the funders, and the rules. Pick the one that fits.

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Four segments, one platform

These are not four products. They are the same platform described in the vocabulary of the people using it, with the specific ways it fits — and the specific things it does not do — written out for each group. Nothing about your account changes based on which page brought you in.

Research institutions

GrantCue is grant tracking software for research offices that do not have an enterprise system. Kuali, Cayuse and InfoEd are built for R1 institutions with a research administration budget to match. GrantCue is for everyone underneath that line: the small college, the department managing its own submissions, the institute with one grants administrator, and the PI doing their own pre-award.

Written for

  • Sponsored programs and research administration offices
  • Department grants managers and research business administrators
  • Principal investigators handling their own pre-award
  • Small colleges, independent institutes, and academic medical centers
See how it works: Research institutions

Startups & SBIR/STTR

SBIR and STTR span eleven agencies, each with its own cadence, portal and vocabulary. Most grant software will not even sell to you — the best-known platforms require 501(c)(3) status with no exceptions. GrantCue has no such requirement.

Written for

  • Founders, CTOs and chief scientists who are also the named PI
  • Deep-tech, defense-tech, biotech and hardware companies from 5 to 100 people
  • Directors of government programs and capture managers at multi-award firms
  • Consultants managing SBIR pursuits for several client companies
See how it works: Startups & SBIR/STTR

Public sector

Counties and large cities have a titled Grants Manager. Boroughs, townships and small districts have a borough manager who handles grants between council meetings. The enterprise vendors are built for the first group. GrantCue is affordable enough for the second.

Written for

  • Boroughs, townships, villages, small cities and rural counties
  • Authorities, special districts, transit and housing agencies
  • School districts and intermediate units
  • Councils of government and regional planning commissions
See how it works: Public sector

Nonprofits

GrantCue has a permanently free plan, and nonprofits and state associations get 25% off any paid plan with code NONPROFIT at checkout. It is the same platform the other three groups use, not a separate product.

Written for

  • Development directors, grants managers and grant writers
  • Executive directors who are also the grant writer
  • 501(c)(3) charities, 501(c)(6) associations and faith-based organizations
  • Consultants and contract grant writers serving several clients
See how it works: Nonprofits

How to choose

Choose by who funds you and who does the work, not by what your organization calls itself. Most people land on the right page in one guess:

  • Research institutions — if your submissions run through a sponsored programs office, a department, or a principal investigator doing their own pre‑award, and you were priced out of the enterprise eRA suites. Small colleges, independent institutes and academic medical centers start here.
  • Startups & SBIR/STTR — if you are a for-profit company pursuing SBIR or STTR across the eleven participating agencies. This is the page that matters most if you have been refused by grant software that requires 501(c)(3) status. GrantCue has no such requirement.
  • Public sector — if you are a borough, township, village, small city, rural county, authority, special district or school district, and grants management is part of somebody's job rather than all of it.
  • Nonprofits — if you are a 501(c)(3) charity, a 501(c)(6) association or a faith‑based organization. It is also where the free and discounted pricing program is explained; eligibility is verified individually rather than granted automatically.

Read the boundaries before the features. Every segment page carries a “What GrantCue does not do” list near the bottom. It is there so a procurement office or a research administrator can rule us out in two minutes instead of two weeks, and it is the fastest way to tell whether this is the right tool for your situation.

What is true on all four pages. Opportunity coverage is federal Grants.gov plus 105 state and state-agency sources across 47 states and the District of Columbia, so federal coverage is even and state coverage depends on your state. GrantCue prepares and tracks applications; it does not submit them to Grants.gov, eRA Commons or DSIP. And there is a permanently free plan on every one of these paths.

If you span more than one. Consultants with both nonprofit and small-business clients, and organizations running several legal entities, do not have to pick. GrantCue supports multiple organizations with an org switcher, which is how teams with several entities keep pursuits separated.

Not sure which one you are?

If your organization applies for grants, GrantCue works for you. Start on the free plan and find out.

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