Grant automation for nonprofits

Your unique grant workflow, intelligently automated.

We build inside the systems your nonprofit already runs on. Climate Resolve went from 240 applications a year to 50 a week, and nobody had to learn new software to get there.

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Both counters tick at the real relative pace. Watch for a minute.

By hand

240 applications a year

applications since you opened this page

With AutoGrant

50 applications a week

applications since you opened this page

How this started

One nonprofit, one very stuck grant pipeline

Climate Resolve is an environmental nonprofit in Los Angeles. Their grant process lived across spreadsheets, inboxes, and a lot of late nights. Finding opportunities, checking fit, drafting applications, chasing deadlines. All of it by hand. In a full year of that, they got through 240 applications.

We rebuilt the workflow inside the tools they already had. Airtable held the pipeline, Neon CRM held the relationships, and n8n and Zapier did the plumbing between them. No new logins, no training week, no "please adopt our platform" moment.

The team kept working the way they always had. The busywork just stopped showing up.

That project is now in the running for a 2026 AMER Consulting Award from 180 Degrees Consulting, and it showed us something bigger: a lot of nonprofits are stuck in exactly the same place. Climate Resolve was the start. Scaling that impact is the whole point of AutoGrant.

60%

less time spent processing each grant

240/yr → 50/wk

application throughput, before and after

new tools the team had to learn

In the running

AMER Consulting Awards 2026

180 Degrees Consulting Global Consulting Awards · Digital Strategy & Transformation, for our work with Climate Resolve

Grants are a volume game, and most teams can't play it

Industry surveys put the average application success rate between 10 and 30 percent, and orgs that get six to ten applications out the door almost always land at least one award. Even great proposals lose most of the time. So the orgs that win more aren't writing one perfect application, they're consistently submitting good ones. That's exactly the part automation fixes.

10-30%

of grant applications get funded on average, per the Grant Professionals Association

96%

of orgs submitting 6 to 10 applications won at least one grant, per the State of Grantseeking survey

Applications your team finishes in a month

20 / month

200 / month

throughput at the pace we hit with Climate Resolve

96 hours

back per month, at a 60% cut in processing time

These numbers come from what we measured at Climate Resolve, not a marketing model. Your results depend on your pipeline, and if automation won't move your numbers, we'll say so in the first call.

The pipeline

The full grant workflow, on autopilot.

Four parts of grant work eat most of the hours. We take each one off your plate and drop the results where your team already looks.

demo · 4x speed

The grant pipeline, on autopilot — recorded on the live Climate Resolve setup runs on a loop, tap for controls

Discovery

Automated searches scan grant databases and funder sites for opportunities that actually match your mission, then drop them straight into your pipeline. No more Friday afternoons on foundation websites.

lives in: your pipeline (Airtable, Sheets, whatever)

Triage

Every opportunity gets scored on fit, funding size, and deadline before a human ever reads it. Your team spends its time on grants worth chasing instead of ruling out bad ones.

lives in: the same pipeline, one column over

Drafting

Applications come pre-filled from your own materials: budgets, boilerplate, answers you've already written. Your team edits and approves instead of staring at blank pages.

lives in: your docs, ready for review

Tracking

Deadlines, statuses, and follow-ups update themselves and land in the places you already check. Nothing slips because someone forgot to update a spreadsheet.

lives in: your CRM and your inbox

Hover any step to see where it lives. Hint: it's always somewhere you already are.

Working with us

We build it with you

We don't disappear and come back with a system nobody on your team can explain. You see the plan, you pick the tools, and you stay in the meetings while we build.

No surprises. These are the exact four phases we walked Climate Resolve through. Click a step to see what happens, and the slide we used in our presentation with them.

Initial diagnosis

We map your grant workflow from end to end: finding opportunities, triage, drafting, tracking, whatever your team actually does. We do it together and mark where the hours go.

You leave with a shared picture of what to automate first.

You're in every meeting

Climate Resolve presentation slide 1: Initial diagnosis

Slide 1 of 4

Slides from our working sessions with Climate Resolve. We made them for the meetings so the team could follow along and sign off before anything shipped.

We don't hand you another platform

Most grant software asks your team to move into a new system, and that's how nonprofits end up paying for tools nobody opens. AutoGrant works the other way around. We come to your stack, wire the automation into it, and leave your team doing the same work in the same places. It's just faster now.

Airtable Neon CRM Salesforce Google Sheets Gmail Zapier n8n Notion + whatever you already use

Who we are

UCLA students who like fixing unglamorous problems

AutoGrant is run by a team of UCLA students who care about social good and happen to be handy with technology. We started this after watching a nonprofit lose hundreds of hours a year to copy-paste work that a well-built automation could just do.

That's also why it's free. No invoices, no retainers, no upsell at the end of the call. Nonprofits bring the mission, we bring the plumbing, and everyone's grant pipeline gets a little less painful.

Get started

Start with a working session

One hour, free. Bring your current grant process, however messy it is. We'll map it together, point at the parts automation can take over, and send you a plain-language plan. If we're not a fit, you still keep the map.

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