Fund a year of somebody else’s fundraising
$99 a month puts an organization you name inside the funding system for as long as you choose. Not one proposal. The search, the eligibility work, the drafting and the deadlines, for a year if you want, on an organization that could never have bought it.
The organizations that most need funding are the ones that can least afford the person who knows how to ask for it. A professional grant writer costs $40 to $150 an hour, or $2,000 to $6,000 a month on retainer, so the money goes to whoever could already pay for help rather than to whoever needed it most. That is the filter you are buying somebody past.
You name the organization. Nobody can promise a grant, so we are not going to. What we can tell you is that the median grant made by the foundations we publish is $5,000, that a foundation accepting applications makes nine of them a year, and that an organization with no way to write to any of them loses by default. Every one of those numbers is on this site with a source.
A gift is worth what you gave. This is worth what they win.
Give a nonprofit $1,188 and they have $1,188. Give them a year of Quillify for the same money and they can find and write to every funder in the country that would say yes. The median grant those funders make is $5,000, and a foundation that accepts applications makes nine of them a year.
This is the only form of giving we know of where the arithmetic can run the other way: what you spend is fixed and what it produces is not. A grant writer costs $2,000 to $6,000 a month, so what you are buying for the price of a modest annual gift is a capability that previously had a professional’s salary attached.
Nobody can promise a grant and we are not going to. Applications lose. What we can tell you is that an organization with no way to write one loses every time by default, and that is the situation you are actually buying them out of.
It compounds, too. An organization that wins once has a track record, and a track record is the thing funders look for next time. You are not funding an application. You are funding the first one, which is the hardest.
Why this leverage exists at all
The money is not hidden. It is filtered, by a set of skills that costs more than the organizations who need it have. That is the gap your sponsorship closes, and it closes permanently rather than for one application: an organization that wins once has a track record, and a track record is what makes the second one easier.
What a sponsorship covers
You choose the plan and the number of months, from one to twenty-four, and you name the organization. They pay nothing and they are not asked for a card.
- $1,188
- A year of Access
- $99 a month. Search across grants, contracts and lenders, eligibility answers, drafting and deadline tracking, for one organization for twelve months.
- $3,000
- A year of Pro
- $250 a month, and the tier most organizations doing this seriously end up on. More credits, more seats, enough room for a real application calendar.
- $9,000
- A year of Max
- $750 a month. For an organization pursuing federal awards, where a single solicitation used to cost a team 200 to 250 hours.
Shorter works too. Three months of Access is $297 and covers a specific application season, which is how several sponsors start.
These are the published rates on our pricing page, generated from the product’s own constants. A sponsor pays exactly what a customer pays: no markup, and no discount either.
Who this reaches
Nonprofits, tribal organizations, small municipalities and community groups: the organizations doing work that funders say they want to fund, without the development office that turns that into an application. We have served hundreds of organizations across every one of those groups.
If you would rather back a specific cohort you already work with, that is a different and larger conversation and we have a page for it. Sponsoring a cohort or portfolio, where a funder putting $50,000 across ten organizations would rather those ten each raise another $200,000.
Set one up
Name the organization and choose what you are funding. Payment is handled by our payment processor; we never see your card.
Pay it all at once, or monthly from your own card. If you choose monthly, it stops at the month you named. Twelve means twelve, and the stop is set on the payment itself rather than kept on a list somebody has to remember, so there is nothing to cancel and nothing to watch.
A sponsorship can never leave an organization worse off. If the one you name is already on a better plan than the one you chose, we refuse the gift and tell you, rather than quietly moving them down to what you paid for.
Several sponsors do this out of a family foundation or a donor-advised fund, and it is unusually easy to account for: a fixed amount, a named beneficiary, and an organization on the other end who can tell you what happened.
You get to be the one who hands it over
If the organization already uses Quillify, your gift lands on their account the moment you pay, carrying your name and whatever you wrote to them. Somebody opens their work on a Tuesday and finds that a person decided they should have this.
If they do not use it yet, you get the key and you give it to them. On a board call, in an email, across a table. That is not a lesser version of the same thing, it is the better one, because the moment belongs to you rather than to a payment processor.
Somebody is not applying this month because they cannot afford to ask.
Every figure on this page is published on our pricing page and derived from the product.