AutoGrant
A grants manager, without the hire

The grants manager you cannot afford to hire.

Most organizations need one and cannot fund the salary, so the work lands on a director who is already stretched thin, or it does not happen at all and the funding walks. AutoGrant covers the work of the role. Your team keeps the judgment, the voice, and the final call.

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Grants Manager
Full-time · Salaried · Benefits · Reports to the Executive Director
  • Research funders and screen opportunities
  • Draft proposals, letters of inquiry, renewals, and reports
  • Operationalize federal, state, and foundation requirements
  • Coordinate internal review, approval, and submission
  • Maintain the funding pipeline and production calendar
  • Own the reporting calendar and funder deliverables
  • Organize proposals, budgets, and outcomes into usable memory

We took the standard 2026 Grants Manager posting and checked it line by line.

Not the summary version. The actual responsibilities these postings ask for, and what covers each one.

Six areas of responsibility. One operation.

A single hire does all of this alone, in sequence, on nights and weekends near a deadline. The reason small teams lose grants is not effort. It is that one person cannot be an elite writer, a compliance reviewer, a prospect researcher, and a deadline manager in the same week.

  1. Prospect research and screening

    Research funders, screen opportunities, prepare summaries, and qualify what is worth pursuing.

    Covered

    AutoGrant searches thousands of funding sources, verifies eligibility before anything reaches you, and ranks each opportunity by how competitive you actually are, with the reasoning written out.

  2. Proposal development and writing

    Draft proposals, letters of inquiry, renewal requests, and reports from approved materials and program resources.

    Covered

    Drafts arrive written to the funder's published rubric and in your organization's voice, with every claim traced back to evidence you supplied. Anything missing is flagged for a person rather than invented.

  3. Compliance across funder types

    Operationalize government and foundation grant requirements. Track compliance obligations and reporting deadlines.

    Covered

    Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200), single-audit preparation, and subaward monitoring are built into the checks. Eligibility rules and special conditions surface while there is still time to act on them.

  4. Pipeline, deadlines, and coordination

    Maintain the institutional funding pipeline and an annual production calendar. Coordinate internal review and submission against every deadline.

    Covered

    A live pipeline and a twelve-month calendar built from real deadlines, back-scheduled so internal review and approval have room to happen. Recurring programs are on the calendar before their windows reopen.

  5. Reporting and renewals

    Maintain the grant reporting calendar. Track deliverables and coordinate funder reporting and submissions.

    Covered

    Every award carries its reporting requirements forward from the day it lands. Reports are drafted against each funder's template using your outcomes data, and renewal windows reach you early enough to act on.

  6. Knowledge and institutional memory

    Organize approved proposals, budgets, program descriptions, and outcomes. Identify information gaps and coordinate collection.

    Covered

    Every document you upload becomes structured, reusable institutional memory: approved claims, budgets, outcomes. It tells you what is missing for the next proposal, and it does not walk out the door when someone leaves.

“And other duties as assigned.” Those too.

A salary you cannot fund, or a subscription you can.

A full-time grant writer runs $75,000 to $91,000 a year fully loaded, and a small grants team runs $280,000 to $320,000. You pay it whether the funding comes in or not. AutoGrant Platform starts at $345 a month, month to month, with your whole team included. See the full pricing breakdown.

This is not a replacement for the people you have. It is how the team you already have pursues more of the right opportunities, at a standard a stretched development office cannot hold on its own.

Nothing is submitted without human sign-off. That is permanent, not a setting.

The grants capability large organizations buy, for the ones that cannot.

If the only thing standing between your mission and its funding is a role you cannot fill, that is the gap AutoGrant was built to close. Bring one real grant you are weighing and we will score it with you on the call.

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Month to month. Whole team included. Every draft and every submission waits for your approval.