Nonprofits
You are not bad at fundraising. You are out of evenings.
You know your cause cold and you know how to make a case. What you do not have is a development office, which is the only thing standing between you and the funders who would say yes. Quillify is that office: it finds the funders open to you, and writes to them in your own words.
The actual gap is awareness and research time
Ask a development director what they need and almost nobody says “better writing.” They say they do not know what is out there, and that finding out means evenings. So the research gets crammed into the hours after everything else, the spreadsheet of half-remembered deadlines gets a bit longer, and the proposal gets written in the last 72 hours.
Nothing about that sequence is a competence problem. It is a capacity problem with a competence problem’s consequences.
So the first thing we do is take work away
Roughly seven in ten private foundations do not take applications at all, according to their own 990s. They fund charities they have already chosen. Nothing you write will move them, and their giving history will not warn you, because the answer sits in a part of the filing almost nobody reads.
We read it. 19,000+ funders in our data explicitly accept applications, out of 122,000+ on file. The useful number there is the smaller one, and the useful outcome is a shorter list, not a longer one.
You can also work backwards, which is what an experienced fundraiser does anyway. Name organizations like yours and you will see every foundation on file that funds them, and which of those have not funded you yet. That gap is your prospect list, built from 2,000,000+ organizations in the IRS registry.
What changes about the week
- Research stops being an evening activity
- Describe your organization once and monitoring keeps watching for new matches. What arrives is filtered by whether you are eligible, which is the filter that removes the most work.
- You know the requirements before you commit
- Ask “Am I qualified?” on any opportunity and it reads the real announcement, not a portal summary. Every proposal then carries a checklist of what is required and, more usefully, what your team has to produce that no software can: the audited financials, the board resolution, the letters of commitment.
- The draft starts from your own material
- Your past proposals, program descriptions, budgets and evaluation data are the substance. The facts in the draft are facts you supplied, which is why it sounds like your organization and not like a template.
- You can look before you pay anything
- Browsing and keyword search cost nothing. You can see whether there is anything worth having in your field before the question of budget comes up at all, which also makes the conversation with your board a different conversation.
The part your board will ask about
Pricing starts at zero and paid plans start at $99 a month. Credits pay for the work Quillify does for you, and unused ones roll over instead of expiring at the end of a quiet month, which matters because grant work comes in waves and most tools charge you the same in the trough.
One customer described the credit model as building equity they could cash out later, when they were not too busy for grants. That is a better description of it than anything we came up with. Every action has a published price.
What Quillify hands you at submission
A finished draft against the real announcement, at full length, with a compliance checklist naming every requirement and where it is answered.
Everything up to the submit button, which is where the weeks go. A human with portal credentials presses it, because that is what funders require.
Drafting grounded in your own documents, so what comes out is your program, not a fluent paragraph about somebody else's.
Has anyone actually done this?
We have served hundreds of organizations, nonprofits among them. The story below is one of the customers who let us print their name and their number, and what it shows is the part every customer describes the same way: an application that would have taken weeks took about five minutes to put together.
An aerospace internship award surfaced with a two-week window. EnCor applied in time and hired the help they needed to accelerate assembly.
Find out who would actually fund you.
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