Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account, accessing, or using GrantCue in any way, you agree to comply with and be legally bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and all applicable laws and regulations. These Terms apply to everyone who accesses the Site or Service, including visitors without an account and anyone accessing it by automated means.

If you are using GrantCue on behalf of an organization, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms, and "you" refers to both you individually and the organization.

2. Description of Service

GrantCue is a grant management and collaboration platform designed to help nonprofits and organizations discover, track, and manage grant opportunities. The Service includes:

• Access to federal grant databases and search functionality
• Grant tracking, grant tracking, and collaboration tools
• AI-powered features including success scoring, recommendations, and summaries
• Calendar integrations and deadline tracking
• Team collaboration features including comments, tasks, and mentions
• Organization and workspace management

We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time with or without notice.

3. Account Registration and Security

To use certain features of GrantCue, you must register for an account. You agree to:

• Provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration
• Maintain and promptly update your account information
• Maintain the security and confidentiality of your password
• Accept all responsibility for activity that occurs under your account
• Notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account

You must be at least 13 years old to use GrantCue. If you are under 18, you represent that you have your parent or guardian's permission to use the Service.

4. Acceptable Use, Scraping and Automated Access

You agree not to:

• Violate any applicable laws, regulations, or third-party rights
• Use the Service for any illegal, harmful, or fraudulent purpose
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers/networks connected to the Service
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service
• Transmit viruses, malware, or any malicious code
• Impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation
• Collect or harvest information about other users without consent
• Use the Service to send spam, unsolicited communications, or harassment
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service

Scraping and automated access. Unless we have agreed otherwise in writing, you may not, and may not help or allow anyone else to:

• Use bots, crawlers, spiders, scrapers, scripts, headless browsers, or other automated tools to access, copy, or collect content or data from the Site or Service, except as allowed below
• Harvest content or data from the Site or Service in bulk, for example by systematically paging through search results, listings, directories, or profiles, to build, populate, or improve a database, directory, dataset, product, or service that competes with GrantCue, or to sell or license that content or data
• Mirror or frame pages of the Site or Service
• Get around any measure we use to limit or control access, including rate limits, CAPTCHAs, IP blocks, robots.txt rules, sign-in requirements, and plan limits, or use proxies, rotating IP addresses, or multiple accounts to do so
• Create accounts by automated means or under false pretenses, or share or pool account credentials to get access you would not otherwise have
• Call our internal endpoints or data feeds directly instead of through the Site, our apps, our documented API, or integrations we provide
• Place an unreasonable load on our systems

What is always allowed. The limits above do not restrict any of the following, and these permissions take priority over them:

• Using the Service for your own grant work, including copying grant details into your own documents, spreadsheets, calendars, and applications, and sharing them with your team, your clients, and the people you work with on grants
• Using screen readers and other accessibility tools, password managers, security software, and similar tools that help a person use the Site
• Using the exports, integrations, and calendar syncs we provide, and exporting your own User Content
• Using the GrantCue API with your organization's API keys, within their scopes and rate limits, if your plan includes API access. This covers your own grant work and the tools you build for it. It does not cover building a product that competes with GrantCue, or selling or licensing our content or data
• Using Open Data (defined in Section 6) in any way its Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license allows, including commercial use and building your own database, directory or dataset from it. This covers what you do with Open Data, not how you reach the Site: please download the files we offer instead of crawling pages, and the limits above on getting around our access controls, creating accounts, calling internal endpoints and placing an unreasonable load on our systems still apply.

Search engines and AI services. Operators of search engines, AI assistants and AI search services, AI model developers, and public web archives such as Common Crawl may crawl the public pages of the Site with crawlers that identify themselves honestly and follow our robots.txt file. They may use what they collect to index and show the Site, to answer questions, to train and improve AI models, and, for web archives, to keep and share their archives. This permission does not cover crawling to build a grant or funder database or directory that competes with GrantCue, or to sell or license our content as a dataset, except for Open Data (Section 6). Following robots.txt does not by itself make any other crawling allowed, and we may withdraw this permission from any crawler at any time, including through robots.txt.

We may block, rate-limit, suspend, or terminate any account, user, crawler, or network address that we believe breaks this section, without notice, and we may withdraw any permission in this section from a specific person, company, or crawler by telling them. None of this withdraws or narrows the CC BY 4.0 license for Open Data, which stays in force for anyone who follows its terms. The limits in this section keep applying after your account ends. Unauthorized scraping and data collection can cause harm that money alone cannot repair, so in addition to any other remedy, we may ask a court to order it stopped.

5. User Content and Ownership

You retain ownership of any content you submit, upload, or create in the Service ("User Content"), including grant records, tasks, notes, comments, and files.

By submitting User Content, you grant GrantCue a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, store, transmit, and display your User Content solely to provide and improve the Service.

You represent and warrant that:

• You own or have the necessary rights to all User Content you submit
• Your User Content does not violate any third-party rights or applicable laws
• Your User Content does not contain malicious code or inappropriate material

6. Intellectual Property Rights

The Service, including its design, features, software, text, graphics, logos, and other content (excluding User Content) is owned by GrantCue or its licensors and protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. This includes our original grant descriptions, summaries, articles, and guides, and the way we select, organize, and present grant, funder, and foundation information. Some of this content is also licensed to everyone as Open Data, as described below.

We do not claim to own facts, wherever they come from. Many grant, funder, and foundation facts come from public sources such as Grants.gov and IRS filings, and these Terms do not stop you from getting them from those sources. Words that others wrote, such as a foundation's description of a grant's purpose or its application instructions as they appear in its filings, belong to their authors: we do not claim them and do not license them. What these Terms protect is GrantCue's own content, compilations, and Service.

Open Data. GrantCue licenses three things to everyone under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0): the foundation directory download at /foundations/data.csv; the Foundation Application Information 2026 report, with its charts and data files, including copies we publish on other sites; and our methodology page. Everything else in the Service, including the foundation profiles and other directory pages, the blog, and the templates, is not Open Data and stays under the rest of these Terms. The license covers GrantCue's own contribution to Open Data, such as our text, charts and computed figures and the way the data is selected and arranged, to the extent the law protects it. It does not cover facts from public filings, words written by others (described above), or the GrantCue name and logo. You may copy, share, adapt and build on Open Data for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you give credit as the license requires. We cannot withdraw that license from anyone who follows its terms, and nothing else in these Terms limits what it lets you do with Open Data; Section 4 still governs how you access the Site. How to credit us is explained on our foundation directory and methodology pages.

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for its intended purpose, which is finding, tracking, and managing grants for yourself or your organization, subject to these Terms. This license does not let you copy, resell, or redistribute content from the Service except as Section 4 allows. It is separate from the CC BY 4.0 license for Open Data: if this license or your account ends, your rights in Open Data under CC BY 4.0 do not.

7. Third-Party Services and Integrations

The Service may integrate with or provide links to third-party services (e.g., Google Calendar, Grants.gov). We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or content of third-party services, their terms or practices, or any loss caused by your use of them.

8. Fees and Payment

Certain features of GrantCue may require payment. If you subscribe to a paid plan, you agree to pay all fees according to the pricing presented; fees are non-refundable except as required by law; we may change pricing with advance notice; and you authorize us to charge your payment method for recurring fees. Payments are processed securely through Stripe; we do not store full credit card information.

9. Termination

You may terminate your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your account for violation of these Terms, suspected fraudulent or illegal activity, extended inactivity, or at your request. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately, and we may delete your account and User Content after 30–90 days.

10. Disclaimers and Limitations

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

GrantCue aggregates data from public sources (e.g., Grants.gov) but does not guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of such data. You are responsible for verifying all grant information before submitting applications. AI-powered features are provided for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as professional advice.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, GRANTCUE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR $100, WHICHEVER IS GREATER.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless GrantCue and its affiliates from any claims, losses, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your use of the Service, your User Content, or your violation of these Terms or any third-party rights.

13. Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles. Any disputes shall be resolved through binding arbitration, except that either party may seek injunctive relief in court for intellectual property infringement or for unauthorized access to or use of the Service, including scraping, automated data collection, or interference with our systems. Any court action permitted by these Terms must be brought in the state courts located in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, or in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and you and GrantCue consent to the jurisdiction of those courts. You and GrantCue agree to waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in class actions.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by posting the updated Terms with a new "Last updated" date and, for significant changes, by email or in-product notification. Your continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

15. General Provisions

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and GrantCue. If any provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them without restriction.

16. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at support@grantcue.com.