Mavenly

Mavenly is an AI grant-funding operating system for discovering opportunities, drafting proposals, and managing applications through reporting. It suits nonprofits, higher-education advancement teams, and foundations coordinating a substantial pipeline. The main appeal is an end-to-end workflow; the main drawback is that even the entry subscription imposes tight usage limits.

Overview

Mavenly’s discovery module matches organizations with federal, foundation, and corporate opportunities, scoring fit by mission, geography, budget band, and grant history. Compose AI can use prior submissions and a funder’s evaluation rubric to prepare drafts, with DOCX and PDF export. Pipeline and application management add deadline tasks, funder relationship tracking, reporting, and outcomes tools. That combination is useful when several people must move applications from prospecting to post-award reporting; a team seeking only an occasional proposal writer may be paying for more workflow than it needs.

Slack, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365 are native integrations, while Salesforce, HubSpot, and Bloomerang are CRM integrations. Mavenly says data is protected with TLS 1.2 or higher in transit and AES-256 at rest. It says customer data and prompts are not used for general model training, and that inference runs through Anthropic’s Claude API with zero-data-retention endpoints. The company describes its security program as pre-launch: SOC 2 Type II is in flight, with ISO 27001 and HIPAA readiness planned. That posture may rule it out for organizations requiring established compliance attestations today.

Key features

Opportunity matching

Fit scoring based on mission, geography, budget band, and grant history gives a more targeted starting point than an undifferentiated opportunity list. The 50-match monthly allowance on Starter, however, can become restrictive for active prospecting.

AI proposal drafting

Using an organization’s own submissions and each funder’s rubric makes drafts more context-aware than a blank prompt. Export to DOCX or PDF supports handoff and submission workflows. Starter allows 25 drafts per month; Professional raises that to 200, while Team removes the draft cap.

Application operations

Deadlines, pipelines, funder relationships, reporting, and outcomes are managed in the same system. Starter’s ten active applications fit a small program, whereas Professional’s unlimited applications are better for a mature portfolio.

Pricing

Sandbox costs nothing and provides 500 requests per month, 2 req/sec, daily data refresh, and docs-only access. It is an API-oriented starting point rather than a full grant workspace.

Starter is $49 a month, or 468 USD/year with the stated 17% saving. It includes two authorized users, ten active applications, 50 funder matches per month, 25 AI drafts per month, and email support with a 72-hour SLA. There is no API access. This is the sensible tier for a small organization whose workload stays within those quotas.

Developer / Pilot costs $199 a month, with annual billing available at ten months’ price. It supplies 15,000 requests per month, 10 req/sec, daily refresh, and email support, making it oriented to API experimentation rather than the seat-and-application workflow described for Starter.

Professional is $299 a month, or 2,988 USD/year with a 17% saving. Five users, unlimited active applications and matches, 200 AI drafts monthly, and a 48-hour email SLA suit a growing grants team. It still has no SSO or advanced security.

Professional / Scale costs $699 a month, with annual billing at ten months’ price, 100,000 requests, 30 req/sec, hourly refresh, and priority email support. Team is $799 a month, or 7,988 USD/year with a 17% saving; it supports 15 users, unlimited AI drafts, read-only API access, and a 24-hour SLA. Enterprise on request on annual contracts, with unlimited users, read/write API access, SAML SSO, SCIM, custom integrations, and a 99.9% uptime SLA. Implementation costs extra; Net 30 invoicing and multi-year discounts are available. Enterprise Data Feed uses custom pricing and offers 5,000,000 requests monthly, 100 req/sec, continuous sync, and a named technical account manager.

The guided trial lasts 14 days and mirrors Starter limits: two users, ten active applications, 50 matches, and 25 drafts. It becomes read-only unless a subscription begins, so it is evaluation time rather than a continuing free plan.

Platforms

Mavenly is offered through web and API access. A mobile app is listed as coming in Q1 2027, so mobile use should not be a current purchasing criterion.

Who it's for

Nonprofits and higher-education advancement teams benefit from matching, drafting, deadlines, and reporting in one workspace. Private and community foundations can use the grantmaker edition. Small teams should confirm that two seats and Starter quotas cover their cycle; larger organizations will need Professional, Team, or Enterprise pricing.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Discovery, drafting, application tracking, and outcomes reporting share one workflow, reducing tool switching.
• Fit scoring uses mission, geography, budget band, and grant history rather than only keyword search.
• Claude zero-data-retention inference and stated encryption controls address common AI data concerns.
• Higher tiers offer unlimited applications or drafts, APIs, SSO, SCIM, and uptime commitments.

Cons

• There is no lasting free workspace; the 14-day trial becomes read-only.
• Starter’s two users, ten applications, 50 matches, and 25 drafts can constrain even a moderately active team.
• Starter and Professional lack API access, while Professional also lacks SSO and advanced security.
• SOC 2 Type II is still in flight and other readiness work is planned, which may not satisfy regulated buyers.

Alternatives

Browse Nonprofit Grant Writing Software for a wider category comparison. Choose Grantable if a freemium web app with five daily free chat messages and all capabilities is preferable. Grantboost is a better fit for a low-cost free tier with ten Writer chats and ten grant views per month. Pick Granted AI when API and web access with a free plan and trial matter. Grantivo suits users wanting a free credit-based plan with unlimited proposals and drafts. Grantora offers a free community tier with shared auditor access. ProposalMint is an alternative for free opportunity browsing, matching, and readiness tools. GrantAppli is aimed at users managing up to three free grant projects. Grantsville provides a free first-application option without a credit card.

Verdict

Mavenly is a strong choice for organizations that want grant discovery, AI-assisted drafting, application operations, and reporting under one roof and can fund a paid plan. Choose Professional or above when Starter’s quotas would interrupt active work. Look elsewhere if you need a permanent free tier, mature compliance certifications now, mobile access, or a lightweight writing-only tool.