Nonprofits

Grant management software for nonprofits, with a free plan and 25% off

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.

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Who this is 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

What usually goes wrong

The grants function is a fraction of one person

In most organizations the entire grants operation is half to one full-time role, often a contract writer serving several clients at once. Anything that takes administrative time comes directly out of writing time.

Institutional memory evaporates faster than the grant period

A three-year award outlives two development directors. The successor inherits a report due in six weeks for a project they have never seen, with the submitted narrative sitting in a departed colleague’s inbox.

GrantHub shut down and the replacements all look different

Foundant discontinued GrantHub and GrantHub Pro on 31 January 2026. Teams that migrated in a hurry are still evaluating whether what they landed on actually fits.

Deadlines outnumber the people tracking them

LOI dates, full proposal deadlines, interim reports and final reports across a dozen funders, all tracked in a spreadsheet that only one person maintains.

How GrantCue helps

GrantCue proposal editor: a section list, AI tools, a drafted project summary and buttons to export to Word and PDF

A free plan, and 25% off the paid ones

The free plan has no time limit. Nonprofits and state associations take 25% off any paid plan with code NONPROFIT at checkout, for as long as they stay subscribed. There is no application or paperwork step.

A direct path off GrantHub

A CSV importer that maps GrantHub fields automatically and brings across each grant: name, funder, amount, deadline, status and notes. Invite your team and upload documents once the grants are in.

AI writing that starts from your own material

Draft, refine, expand or condense proposal sections against your organization’s profile and past submissions, with a reusable content library so boilerplate is written once.

LOI and report deadlines in one calendar

A dedicated LOI deadline field alongside close dates, reminder emails, and an ICS feed the whole team can subscribe to.

A record that survives turnover

Submitted narratives with version history, funder correspondence in threaded comments, documents with version control, and an activity log that outlasts the person who created it.

What GrantCue does not do

So you can rule us out in two minutes instead of two weeks.

  • Discover includes the open programs of a limited set of foundations and corporate funders. Saved searches, alerts and fit scoring work on those listings like any other.
  • Foundation research starts from IRS 990‑PF filings, so the foundation directory covers private foundations. GrantCue also lists community foundations, United Ways and other public charities whose grant programs it has checked on the funder’s own website, with giving history from Form 990 Schedule I where they file one, but it does not cover every public charity that gives grants. GrantCue matches your organization against foundations, shows who funds a given organization and who funds organizations like yours, and lists the people on each 990‑PF. You can track a funder with its contacts and notes.
  • Instrumentl and Candid still have more funder data: far more public charities, curated open calls from foundations, and years of staff research. If foundation prospecting is most of your week, compare them.
  • There is no fund accounting, and no donor-restriction or net-asset tracking. GrantCue is not a replacement for QuickBooks, Sage Intacct or your accounting system.
  • There is no donor CRM. Team plans and up can import organizations, contacts, opportunities and awards from Salesforce or Raiser’s Edge NXT for review; the import is read-only and nothing is written back. A Virtuous import works the same way and is in limited access, switched on for selected organizations.
  • Spend and match are entered by hand, except on the Organization plan, which can import expense lines from QuickBooks Online (read-only) and map them to a grant budget.

Questions

Is GrantCue free for nonprofits?

There is a permanently free plan open to everyone. Beyond that, nonprofits and state associations take 25% off any paid plan with code NONPROFIT at checkout. There is no application and no paperwork; enter the code when you upgrade.

We are a 501(c)(6) association, or a congregation without a determination letter. Can we use the code?

The NONPROFIT code is for nonprofits and state associations and is not limited to 501(c)(3) organizations. Nothing is verified at checkout, so there is no determination letter to send. If you are unsure whether your organization counts, email support@grantcue.com.

Does GrantCue find foundation grants?

Yes, in two ways. Discover covers Grants.gov plus 748 state and state-agency sources across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, plus the open programs of a limited set of foundations and corporate funders, with recommendations and fit scoring like any other listing. Funder research works from IRS 990-PF filings: GrantCue suggests private foundations that give to work like yours, shows which foundations fund a named organization or your peers, and flags invitation-only funders. It also lists community foundations, United Ways and other public charities whose programs it has checked, with giving history from Form 990 Schedule I where they file one; other public charities that give grants are not covered.

We are leaving GrantHub. How hard is the move?

Export your data to CSV and import it — the importer auto-maps common GrantHub fields and detects duplicates. Most teams finish in under an hour. There is a step-by-step migration guide on the site.

Guides for this segment

Longer-form reading on the parts of this workflow that come up most.

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