Funder Discovery

Let AI do your funder research while you sleep.

Grantable's prospecting skill runs deep, multi-step funder research — screening hundreds of candidates, deep-scoring the best fits, and writing a brief for each. Put it on a schedule and wake up to the shortlist.

"You've spent three weeks building a prospect list of 40 funders. Your colleague at a larger org has a team of three doing the same thing. You're one person."

1. your week, by hand

Mon 9a Hartwell — read the 990
Mon 11a Meridian — grantee list
Mon 2p Grove — still reading
Tue–Fri repeat, funder by funder

Friday: 3 prospects — and out of leads

2. you ask once

"Youth workforce funders, Ohio, $25–100K grants."

scheduled: every Monday, 6:00 am

plain English in — no query language, no filters to learn

3. the night shift runs

11:47 pm 6:00 am

Discovery

500 candidates screened

Deep research

990s + the live web, per funder

Evaluation

50 deep-scored · ~19/min measured

Briefs

one written per finalist

4. monday, 8:00 am

Your Monday shortlist is ready

12 strong fits, briefs written

/Prospecting / Youth Workforce — 12 briefs

each with the fit score, the reasoning, and a suggested ask

you met the work at the shortlist, not the search

30-60 min per funder, by hand 500 screened, 50 deep-scored in minutes Prospecting throughput
Included in every plan

The old way vs. the Grantable way.

You know the old workflow. Here's how it changes.

The manual prospecting marathon

  1. 1

    Start with what you know

    Your personal network and the funders who come up first on Google

  2. 2

    Research one funder at a time

    30-60 minutes per funder to assess fit, giving history, and requirements

  3. 3

    Hit a wall

    After 20-30 funders, you run out of leads and ideas

  4. 4

    Miss the long tail

    Hundreds of potential funders exist that you'll never discover manually

  5. 5

    No time to go deeper

    You found the funders, but haven't analyzed their giving patterns

  6. 6

    Repeat every quarter

    The funding landscape changes, but your prospect list stays stale

Grantable prospecting skill

  1. 1

    Describe what you need

    Program area, geography, funding range — in plain English

  2. 2

    It screens hundreds

    The database is screened against your profile — 500 candidates in a typical run

  3. 3

    Deep-scores the best

    Top matches get full fit scoring with written reasoning — about 19 per minute, measured

  4. 4

    A brief for every prospect

    Each finalist arrives as a brief: the funder, the fit, the recommended approach

  5. 5

    Runs on your schedule

    Set it weekly — Monday 6am, before you're at your desk

  6. 6

    The results find you

    Briefs land in your workspace and the run emails you when it's done

Prospecting on your schedule.

Deep funder research that runs while you focus on writing winning proposals.