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Write Better Grants, Faster
The AI-powered grant writing software with smart research, funder-specific templates, and real-time proposal analysis, all in one workspace.
Join grant writing teams at 100+ organizations writing their grant proposals here.
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Research Proposal Creator
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Nonprofit Proposal Creator
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AI Analysis
University Researchers
Writing NIH and NSF grant proposals
Nonprofit Organizations
Writing grant proposals for mission-driven work
Clinical Teams
Securing funding for patient care and medical research
Grant Writers
Managing multiple client proposals across every funder type
Section templates
From R01 specific aims to foundation LOIs
Funder families
NIH, NSF, foundation, government, nonprofit, corporate
Unified workspace
Research, drafting, and analysis in one place
The Traditional Way vs. GrantCopilot’s AI Grant Writing Software
Compare & Decide
See how structured templates transform your grant writing timeline
Traditional Way
The Traditional Way
Week 1-2
Manual research
Search through databases, read guidelines, track requirements in spreadsheets
Week 3-4
Start from blank page
Figure out structure, worry about missing key sections reviewers expect
Week 5-6
Endless revisions
Guess at what funders want, rewrite sections multiple times
Week 7-8
Last-minute panic
Rush to meet compliance requirements before deadline
8+ weeks of stress
With GrantCopilot
The Smart Way
Day 1
Add your RFP
Paste your RFP or a link to it and get sections that match what the funder asks for. NIH uses the standard structure for your mechanism.
Day 1-3
Write with AI
Click Write with AI for a complete first draft built for your grant's requirements
Day 4-5
Refine with AI
Get instant feedback on clarity, compliance, and reviewer expectations
Day 6-7
Final polish
Review requirements checklist, export, and submit with confidence
1 week to submission-ready
From Blank Page to Submission‑Ready Grant Proposal
Three steps to a stronger proposal
01
Add Your RFP
Paste your RFP or a link to it and get only the sections the funder asks for. For NIH and NSF, pick your mechanism or proposal type and get that structure.
02
Build Your Proposal
Compass generates a structured outline with the sections, prompts, and research your funder expects.
03
Write & Refine
Use the Write with AI feature, or predefined templates to draft any section for your grant proposal in one click, then refine it with AI feedback.
Let AI Write Your First Draft
Open any section and click Write with AI for a complete draft written for your grant's agency, mechanism, and requirements. Already started? Add with AI reads what you have and builds on it, without rewriting a word.
Grant-aware drafting for NIH, NSF, and nonprofit funders
Builds on what you've already written, never overwrites it
Writes to your exact word or character limit
Grounded in your Project Brief, so drafts reflect your real project instead of generic language
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Statement of Need
Write with AI
In our community, one in four families with school-age children lack reliable access to affordable after-school care, forcing many parents to choose between their jobs and their children's safety.
Local providers report waitlists of six months or longer, and the shortage falls hardest on working single-parent households.
This program will close that gap by expanding evening programming to 150 additional families in its first year.
Drafted for a nonprofit grant proposal in seconds. Ready to review and refine.
The Logic Model Your Funder Expects
Pick NSF, NIH, or nonprofit and get the columns that funder looks for, from inputs and activities through outcomes and impact.
An illustrative Theory of Change model for a broadening participation project. Read it left to right: every outcome follows from an output, and every output from an activity.
Goal
Increase the number of first-generation students who complete undergraduate research in environmental engineering.
- Inputs
- Faculty mentors
- Department and college support
- Two community college partners
- Prior pilot data
- Activities
- Recruit community college transfer students
- Develop a mentored summer research curriculum
- Train faculty and graduate student mentors
- Establish a peer cohort that meets monthly
- Outputs
Counted
- Students enrolled
- Mentors trained
Created
- Mentoring manual
- Research curriculum
- Short-term outcomes
- Participants gain research skills
- Participants report a stronger sense of belonging
- Mid-term outcomes
- Participants stay in engineering majors
- Partner colleges adopt the curriculum
- Long-term outcomes
- A more diverse environmental engineering workforce
- A reusable model for other institutions
Three funder formats
NSF Theory of Change, the NIH program model, and the W.K. Kellogg model most foundations use.
Drafted from your words
NSF and nonprofit models are drafted only from what you wrote. No invented partners or numbers.
Linked to your proposal
It exports as a table in your PDF and Word documents, and AI review checks your draft against it.
Every plan includes logic models: Nonprofit in the nonprofit format, Research in the NSF and NIH formats, and Planning and Professional in all three. Plans start at $25/month.
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Writing Style
How AI drafts cite sources and sound like you
Citation style
APA 7
Writing samples
2025 Community Health Proposal
Youth Mentoring Program LOI
Organization documents
Strategic Plan 2025–2028
County Needs Assessment
Drafts That Cite Your Way and Sound Like You
Set up your profile once. Every AI draft, suggestion, and bibliography uses it.
Pick APA 7, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE once. AI drafts and the bibliography tool cite in that style.
Add up to 3 writing samples from past proposals so drafts match your voice.
Upload up to 10 strategic plans, needs assessments, or reports so drafts use your real numbers and programs.
What GrantCopilot Has That Others Often Don't
A fast scan of proposal-writing depth, not every feature in every product.
Feature
GrantCopilot
Instrumentl
Grantable
Grant directories
NIH / NSF proposal templates
Some
Some
Nonprofit proposal templates
Some
Some
Some
AI proposal suggestions & improvements
Some
Some
Funder-specific section guidance
Some
Some
Some
Write with AI for proposal sections
Some
Logic model builder (NSF, NIH, nonprofit)
AI drafts in your citation style and voice
Some
Manage many proposals in one workspace
Some
Some
Low-cost individual plan
Some
Strong fit
Some support
Not the focus
Everything You Need in Grant Writing Software
Structure, research, and AI-powered analysis, all in one grant writing platform
Smart Templates
Start with templates built for NIH, NSF, foundation, government, nonprofit, and corporate grants. Each includes the sections, page limits, and requirements your funder expects.
Research Intelligence
Compass surfaces relevant research, citations, and funder priorities so you can back up your proposal with the evidence reviewers want to see.
Proposal Analysis
Run analysis on any section to check clarity, compliance, and impact. Get specific suggestions to strengthen your writing before you submit.
Write with AI
Get a complete first draft of any section, written for your grant's agency and requirements. Already started? Add with AI reads what you have and builds on it, never rewrites it.
Logic Models
Build a logic model in the NSF, NIH, or nonprofit format your funder expects. Link it to a proposal and it exports as a table in your PDF and Word documents, and AI review checks your draft against it.
Writes Like You
Set your citation style (APA 7, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE), add writing samples, and upload organization documents once. AI drafts cite your way and use your real programs and numbers.
Budget Builder
Build the budget by year for any proposal: salary, fringe, travel, supplies, contractual and other costs, with indirect or administrative costs and the total request worked out. Export to Excel and write the budget narrative from the same figures.
Grant Proposal Templates for Every Funder
NIH
NSF
Nonprofit
Foundation
Government
Corporate
Live from grants.gov
Real grants, open right now
A glimpse of what you can discover and bookmark inside GrantCopilot — pulled from federal funding sources in real time.
Open Opportunity
Community Health Innovation Awards
Department of Health and Human Services
Closes Rolling
Open Opportunity
Research Education Program (R25)
National Institutes of Health
Closes Multiple cycles
Open Opportunity
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
National Science Foundation
Closes Quarterly
Open Opportunity
Rural Capacity Building Grants
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Closes Annual
Open Opportunity
Foundation Operating Support
Private Foundations
Closes Year-round
Open Opportunity
Workforce Development Initiatives
Department of Labor
Closes Multiple cycles
Open Opportunity
Community Health Innovation Awards
Department of Health and Human Services
Closes Rolling
Open Opportunity
Research Education Program (R25)
National Institutes of Health
Closes Multiple cycles
Open Opportunity
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
National Science Foundation
Closes Quarterly
Open Opportunity
Rural Capacity Building Grants
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Closes Annual
Open Opportunity
Foundation Operating Support
Private Foundations
Closes Year-round
Open Opportunity
Workforce Development Initiatives
Department of Labor
Closes Multiple cycles
Answers before you sign up
Yes. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial with full access to that plan's features, plus grant search. Trials include up to 3 proposals, and paid plans have no limit.
GrantCopilot has four plans: Planning ($25/month or $250/year) for logic models and research, Nonprofit ($45/month or $450/year) for nonprofit and foundation proposals, Research ($99/month or $990/year) for NIH and NSF proposals, and Professional ($125/month or $1,250/year) for every feature, for grant writers who write every kind of proposal. Prices are plus applicable taxes, and annual billing gives you 2 months free. Teams and institutions can get Enterprise pricing from our sales team. Nonprofit and Research are separate writing plans, so choose the one that matches the grants you apply for. Professional includes both, for grant writers who write every kind of proposal.
Nonprofit, foundation, and corporate grants (community, capacity, operating, program, and funders like Walmart Spark Good) on the Nonprofit plan. NIH (R01, R21, R25, U01, SBIR/STTR R41–R44, and more) and NSF proposals on the Research plan. Professional includes both, and either writing plan covers federal grants from other agencies. Each comes with funder-specific section guidance.
Yes. Cancel from your account settings or by emailing support; your subscription stays active until the end of the current billing period, and your existing proposals remain accessible to view and export.
Yes. Your proposal content is never used to train AI models or shared with anyone. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and you retain full ownership of everything you write.