GrantAppli vs Grantboost

GrantAppli is a web platform for finding funders and preparing grant applications. Users can search by mission, focus area, and location, or use reverse peer search to find funders supporting similar organizations. They can also provide foundation website URLs to assess alignment with a nonprofit’s goals. Writing tools include AI assistance, automated letters of inquiry, document summaries, character tracking, and research with sources. Teams can collaborate on drafts in real time, track grant status and deadlines, and organize documents and images in one place. Budgeting tools let users build a budget and discuss line items, adjustments, and totals through chat. Optional read-only access to Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets allows users to browse and import files they select. GrantAppli says customer content is private and is not used to train AI models. Its security policy describes encryption, firewalls, DDoS mitigation, intrusion detection, encrypted backups every five minutes, and disaster recovery testing at least twice a year. A free plan covers three grant projects, and a free trial is listed.

Grantboost is online software for finding grant opportunities, tracking deadlines and pipelines, and drafting proposals with AI. It says it monitors roughly 1.5 million funding sources and matches them to an organization’s mission and programs. Coverage is strongest in the United States; international opportunities may appear, but coverage outside the US is thinner. On plans that include drafting, the service analyzes RFPs and prepares proposal sections using an organization’s past proposals, programs, and voice. Users review, edit, and submit applications themselves, with a link to each funder’s application page. Drafts can be exported to standard document formats, while opportunity data can be imported or exported manually. The FAQ says there are no third-party integrations such as CRM, Zapier, or Google Docs sync. Workspace documents, drafts, and pipeline are visible only to invited people, and uploaded content is not used to train third-party AI models. The free plan includes 10 Writer chats and 10 grant views per month. Paid plans are displayed from $32/mo with annual billing.