Steady Grants program summary
- What this is
- Steady Grants scans your organization's real mission statements, budgets, program reports, and past proposals — then finds matching grants and assembles a first draft in your voice, ready for you to review and submit.
- Who it's for
- A small San Diego-County nonprofit where one person does everything, including the grant application — see the eligibility checklist below.
- What it costs
- Flat setup fee, flat monthly price. No commission, ever — not a percentage of your award, under any tier.
Built for the org where one person does everything, including the grant application.
Steady Grants is built for a specific buyer, not "every nonprofit" — that specificity is deliberate.
- ✓A San Diego-County 501(c)(3) with an annual operating budget roughly $100K–$500K and no dedicated grant-writing staff — the executive director, a program manager, or an outside contractor writes the proposals today.4
- ✓Applies to 2–4 foundation or local/regional grants a year and already has some digitized paperwork — a mission statement, a past annual report, budgets, even a rejected prior application, scattered across email or a shared drive.
- ✓Wants a professionally drafted first pass without paying $1,500–$5,000 for a single foundation proposal, or $5,000–$15,000+ for a federal one.1
- ✗Not a fit yet: orgs applying primarily for federal grants (AI-disclosure rules there are still an open compliance question — see Program file below), or orgs with essentially no digitized documents to ground a draft in.
Three steps, one grounded org profile.
Discovery scan
Matches your mission, program area, and geography against open foundation and local/regional grant opportunities, ranked by fit — not a generic RFP firehose.
Document grounding
Ingests your actual mission statements, budgets, program reports, and past proposals at setup, so drafts sound like your org, not a template. If a fact is missing, it asks you — it doesn't invent one.
First-draft assembly
Produces a submission-ready first draft of narrative sections for you to review, edit, and submit yourself. Human finalizes and submits, always — never an autonomous auto-submit.
Flat fee. Flat subscription. No percentage of your award — ever.
$299 one-time setup covers document ingestion and building your org profile. Then a flat monthly price, no per-seat fees.
| Tier | Setup | Monthly | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $299 one-time | $49/mo | Grant opportunity discovery scan; 1 assisted draft/month; core document grounding. Built for orgs at the lower end of the budget band. |
| Growth — most orgs choose this | $299 one-time | $99/mo | Everything in Starter, plus up to 3 assisted drafts/month and deeper document ingestion, including org "voice" tuning. |
Both tiers share the same $299 one-time setup fee, which covers document ingestion and building your org profile.
Where Steady Grants pays for itself
Bars scaled to the $15,000 federal-proposal ceiling. Steady Grants' full first-year cost (setup + 12 months) is less than one typical foundation proposal fee — it pays for itself the first time it produces one usable draft, or covers roughly 12–20 hours of an ED's own drafting time at a $75/hr market rate.1
The AFP Code of Ethical Standards and the Grant Professionals Association's own Code of Ethics both name percentage-of-funds-raised compensation as a violation members must never accept.2 A tool priced any other way would ask your board's grant committee to work with a vendor they'd have to flag. We don't build that tier — not as an add-on, not as an option.
What using it actually looks like.
Three scripted, click-through scenarios — a discovery scan, a document-grounded draft interview, and a pipeline dashboard. Every screen is simulated with synthetic, illustrative data; nothing shown was generated by a real system.
The five questions every ED asks first.
Isn't this just AI writing our grant applications — will funders penalize us?
Grantable already does this and has a nonprofit discount at our size — why switch?
Will you take a percentage of what we win, like some consultants push for?
Our documents aren't organized — scattered PDFs, old emails, a messy Drive folder. Can this even work?
Is there legal or compliance risk using AI for federal grant applications specifically?
We're stating our own conditions that would change our mind up front.
A pitch that can't say what would falsify it isn't a serious one.
One ask: a 15-minute pilot conversation.
Not a purchase, not a signature — a short call with your ED or the person who currently writes your grant applications, to see if a free discovery scan and one draft is worth trying against a real upcoming deadline.
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