Overview

Mavenly matches organizations with federal, foundation, and corporate grant opportunities, scoring fit by mission, geography, budget band, and grant history. Compose AI drafts proposals using prior submissions and a funder’s evaluation rubric, with DOCX and PDF export. Pipeline management, deadline tasks, funder relationship tracking, and reporting and outcomes tools extend the system beyond discovery and drafting. That makes it a stronger fit for teams managing a grant cycle than for organizations seeking only a writing assistant.

Native integrations include Slack, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365; CRM integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, and Bloomerang. Mavenly says it uses TLS 1.2 or higher in transit and AES-256 encryption at rest, and does not use customer data to train its AI models or third-party models for general use. Its inference uses Anthropic’s Claude API with zero-data-retention endpoints. The company identifies itself as pre-launch on its security page: SOC 2 Type II is in flight, while ISO 27001 and HIPAA readiness are planned. Organizations requiring completed certifications should weigh that status before adopting it.

Key features

Discovery and drafting

Fit scoring against several organizational and grant-history factors can help teams focus their search, while drafting from past submissions and funder rubrics gives AI work a defined starting point. Export to DOCX and PDF supports moving drafts into other workflows. The value depends on having useful prior submissions and enough monthly drafts for the team’s workload.

Application operations

Application pipelines, deadline tasks, funder relationships, and outcomes reporting place coordination around proposals in the same system. This breadth is useful when several people oversee active opportunities; smaller organizations with few applications may find the higher tiers’ unlimited capacity unnecessary.

Pricing

Mavenly has no free plan for its grant-management product. The 14-day guided trial mirrors Starter: two authorized users, up to 10 active applications, 50 funder matches, and 25 AI drafts. At the end, the workspace becomes read-only unless you subscribe, so it is a time-limited evaluation rather than a continuing free workspace.

Sandbox: 0.00 USD per free, with 500 requests per month, 2 req/sec, daily data refresh, and docs only. This is an API-oriented free tier, not a substitute for the grantseeker workspace.
Starter: 49.00 USD per month or $468/year, with up to two authorized users, 10 active applications, 50 funder matches and 25 AI drafts per month, and email support with a 72-hour SLA. It suits a small team with limited volume; no API access and strict quotas constrain expansion.
Developer / Pilot: 199.00 USD per month, with annual billing available at ten months’ price, 15,000 requests per month, 10 req/sec, daily refresh, and email support. This is an API tier rather than a stated grant-workflow bundle.
Professional: 299.00 USD per month or $2,988/year. It raises capacity to five authorized users, unlimited active applications and matches, and 200 AI drafts per month, with a 48-hour email support SLA. It fits teams whose discovery and application volume exceeds Starter, but still limits drafts and excludes SSO and advanced security.
Professional / Scale: 699.00 USD per month, with annual billing available at ten months’ price, 100,000 requests per month, 30 req/sec, hourly refresh, and priority email support. Its published terms emphasize data-feed capacity rather than grant-workflow user or draft quotas.
Team: 799.00 USD per month or $7,988/year, with up to 15 authorized users, unlimited AI drafts, read-only API access, and priority support with a 24-hour SLA. It suits larger collaborative teams that need drafting capacity beyond Professional.
Enterprise: 1500.00 USD per contact, annual contracts only, with Net 30 invoicing, possible multi-year discounts, and an additional implementation fee. It includes unlimited authorized users, read-and-write API access, SAML SSO, SCIM, custom integrations, and a 99.9% uptime SLA. This is the option for organizations needing enterprise access controls and integrations, with a custom commitment rather than a standard monthly term.
Enterprise Data Feed: custom pricing, with annual billing available at ten months’ price, 5,000,000 requests per month, 100 req/sec, continuous sync, and a named technical account manager. It is aimed at high-volume data-feed use, not a listed grant-team seat package.

Support commitments range from Starter’s 72-hour email SLA to dedicated customer success on Enterprise. The about page says Mavenly responds to inquiries within two business days.

Platforms

Mavenly runs on web and offers an API. A mobile app is listed as coming in Q1 2027, so teams needing a current mobile app should look elsewhere.

Who it's for

Grantseekers such as nonprofits and higher-education advancement teams can use Mavenly to connect opportunity search with proposal and application work. Private and community foundations have a grantmaker edition. Teams should match their expected users, applications, and draft volume to the plan caps; Starter is particularly narrow for growing groups.

Pros and cons

Pros: Discovery, drafting, deadlines, relationship tracking, and reporting sit in one grant-focused system, reducing the need to split those tasks across separate tools.
Pros: Fit scoring uses mission, geography, budget band, and grant history, while AI drafts draw on prior submissions and funder rubrics.
Pros: The higher plans provide a clear path to more seats, unlimited applications or drafts, API access, SSO, and custom integrations.
Cons: Starter’s two-user, 10-application, 50-match, and 25-draft monthly limits may quickly bind a busy team.
Cons: The trial lasts 14 days and its workspace becomes read-only without a subscription, offering no enduring free grant-management tier.
Cons: SOC 2 Type II remains in flight and ISO 27001 and HIPAA readiness are planned, which may not meet organizations’ current compliance requirements.

Alternatives

Nonprofit Grant Writing Software is a category overview for comparing grant-writing options.

GrantAppli is worth considering for a free web-based option with three grant projects.
Grantable suits readers who want a free web-based tier with every capability included, but it caps free use at five chat messages a day and file imports at 10 MB.
Grantboost offers a free web plan with 10 Writer chats and 10 grant views per month; choose it if those caps suit a lighter workflow.
Grantora offers a free Community plan with up to four grant project outputs per year, 5 MB secure storage, and separate admin, writer, and read-only auditor users.
Grantivo offers a free tier with 10 credits, unlimited proposals and drafts, a full funder directory, and requirement tracking and readiness.
Instrumentl is another paid, web-and-API option with a free trial; its Discover plan is $299.00 USD per year, billed $299 /month paid upfront annually or $349 paid monthly, for up to three users.
WinMyGrant has a forever-free web plan for three proposals per month, with a full seven-section proposal and copy-to-clipboard output.
Bidara is a paid web alternative with a free trial and a Starter plan at 299.00 USD per year, billed annually, for 10 AI-generated responses per month and up to three team members.

Verdict

Choose Mavenly if your nonprofit, advancement team, or foundation wants opportunity discovery, AI drafting, and application operations in one workspace, and its quotas and security posture suit your needs. Its strongest case is the breadth of a grant-specific workflow, not a lasting free tier. Look elsewhere if you need free ongoing access, larger Starter capacity, or completed security certifications before adoption.

	Grantivo	Mavenly
Free plan	Yes
Free trial		Yes
Paid from	Free	$49/mo
Platforms	Web	api, Web
Free plan	Yes	No
Opportunity database	Yes	Yes
AI writing tools	Yes	Yes
Proposal templates	Yes
Deadline tracking	Yes	Yes
Paid from		49 /mo
Team collaboration		Yes
Included users		2 users

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