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Your grant portfolio in one calendar view — apply, report, follow up. Built for the 1-person dev shop, not the Salesforce shop.

Problem

Маленькая нонпрофит без выделенного grant manager ведёт грантовый портфель в Excel — каждый грант на отдельной вкладке, никаких напоминаний о дедлайнах отчётов. К моменту когда пайплайн доходит до 5-7 грантов, summary tab ломается, а Salesforce / Bonterra — overkill за $200+/mo с консультантом.

Audience

Executive directors / development directors маленьких US нонпрофитов (1-10 сотрудников, 3-20 активных грантов) с грантовой моделью финансирования и без выделенного grant manager

Reasoning

Source signals

  • SIG-20260426-us-community-coordinator-nonprofit-grant-deadline-spreadsheet — "Spreadsheets work for one or two grants, but they break down quickly" (RECURRING, HIGH)
  • SIG-20260426-us-community-coordinator-volunteer-hour-tracking-grant-reporting — "tracking volunteer hours… for grants, compliance, or payroll" (RECURRING, MED) — secondary cross-link

What we ship

**Core features (MVP)**

  • Calendar view: all deadlines (LOI / full app / interim / final report) color-coded by status
  • Grant card: amount, restricted use, scope, contact, history, documents
  • Auto-reminders 30/14/7/1 day before deadline (email + iCal)
  • Funder contact CRM with conversation history
  • Spending tracker: restricted budget vs actual
  • Quarterly digest PDF for board meetings
  • Optional volunteer-hour log integration

**Primary user flow**

1. Exec director signs up, imports grant Excel via smart parser

2. Calendar view shows next 3 deadlines

3. Open grant card, upload application doc, mark "submitted"

4. Reminder 7 days before interim report

5. End of quarter: one-click PDF digest for board

**What it looks like**

  • **Landing**: "Salesforce is for fundraising teams. We're for the exec director who is also the development director."
  • **Main app screen**: month calendar with colored dots = grants × deadlines
  • **Output**: clean quarterly digest PDF

**MVP build plan (9 days)**

  • Day 1-2: schema, auth, Stripe
  • Day 3-5: calendar view, grant cards, reminders
  • Day 6-7: spending tracker, funder CRM, document upload
  • Day 8: PDF digest, Excel import
  • Day 9: landing, deploy

Reasoning

The pain is well-quantified ("spreadsheets break down quickly") with named competitors (GrantPipe, Grantable, GrantFrog, Steward, MonkeyPod). The market is alive and crowded but bifurcated: enterprise-priced ($150-500/mo) or small-fundraiser-priced (Grantable). White-space exists in the $19-29/mo "exec-director-is-the-grant-writer" segment with calendar-first UX. Standard CRUD + calendar + PDF — ideal stack fit, 9-day build.

Quick competitive read

  • **Grantable** ($35-60/mo): closest UX, but application-focused
  • **GrantPipe / GrantFlow** ($50-200/mo): pipeline, complex
  • **Steward CRM** ($30+/mo): broader scope
  • **MonkeyPod** ($99/mo): full suite
  • **GrantFrog**: research-focused

White-space: $19-29/mo, calendar-first, exec-director-targeted. **Competitive pressure: 5/10**.

Initial pricing hypothesis

$19/mo Solo (1 user, ≤10 active grants), $39/mo Team (3 users, unlimited), $79/mo Org (5 users + funder CRM + spending tracker).

Distribution hypothesis

SEO ("small nonprofit grant tracker"), Reddit r/nonprofit, partnerships with regional community foundations + United Way newsletters, ProductHunt, free tier for Candid users.

Source signals (2)

  • SIG-20260426-us-community-coordinator-nonprofit-grant-deadline-spreadsheet
  • SIG-20260426-us-community-coordinator-volunteer-hour-tracking-grant-reporting