Grant Assistant

What Grant Assistant is

Grant Assistant is a web product for mission-driven organizations that need to find funding opportunities and prepare grant proposals. Discover ranks opportunities according to an organization’s mission, programs, and geography. Users can transfer an opportunity from Discover into Respond in one click. Respond can summarize the funding opportunity, create a proposal outline, and help draft funder-aligned content using the organization’s materials. Grant Assistant says its proprietary AI technology was trained on more than 7,000 successful grant proposals. Its pre-award pipeline lets users save opportunities and funders, sort them into folders, track deadlines, and add notes. The product supports foundation, corporate, and government grants, as well as government contracts. The company says organizational data is isolated, available only to verified users within the organization, and not used to train external AI models. Each partnership includes onboarding, live training, in-app support, quarterly strategy check-ins, and a dedicated grant strategy expert. Current pipeline management is pre-award; post-award grant management features are on the product roadmap. Grant Assistant was founded in 2024 by Mustafa Hasnain and acquired by FreeWill in October 2024. It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Pricing is customized by organization size and grant program scope, and is available upon request through a discovery conversation.

Who it suits

Grant Assistant suits nonprofit grant writers and development officers at small-to-mid-size organizations, as well as teams pursuing many funding opportunities. Its discovery, drafting, deadline, and pipeline tools cover foundation, corporate, and government grants and government contracts.

Limits

Pipeline management is currently pre-award. Post-award grant management features are on the product roadmap; pricing is customized by organization size and grant program scope.

Getting started

1. Visit the Grant Assistant website.
2. Request a discovery conversation to discuss customized pricing.
3. Complete onboarding as part of the partnership.
4. Use Discover to find relevant opportunities.
5. Import an opportunity into Respond to develop a proposal.

Verdict

Choose Grant Assistant if your organization needs help finding funding and preparing proposals, with expert support and a pre-award pipeline. Its current pipeline stops before post-award grant management, and pricing depends on organization size and program scope.