Grant writing for nonprofits
Federal money that carried your programs got cut, or is about to be. The replacement is foundation and corporate grants, and those are a volume and deadlines game. We run that game for you: funder research, LOIs, full proposals, and a pipeline report you can hand your board, every month.
US 501(c)(3) organizations, roughly $1M–$10M budgets. Foundation and corporate grants only. We refer federal work out.
We build and maintain a shortlist of foundation and corporate funders that fit your programs and your geography, with deadlines, typical grant sizes, and a plain note on why each one fits. The list is yours to keep.
Two to four letters of inquiry and one to two full proposals go out every month, written from interviews with you and your program staff, in your organization's voice. AI handles the drafting hours, which is why this costs what it does. A named writer owns the strategy, the voice, and the deadline, and fact-checks every claim before anything reaches a funder.
Once a month you get one page: funders identified, LOIs out, proposals submitted, deadlines met, dollars pending. Grant decisions take three to nine months, so we hold ourselves accountable to the pipeline every month, not to a decision letter someday.
One foundation proposal. Two weeks. Flat fee. Then you decide.
Most executive directors have the same worry about outside grant writers: you pay a retainer, then find out in month three whether the writing is any good. So we do it the other way around.
If the work is good, most organizations move to a monthly arrangement. If it is not a fit, you keep everything and we part friendly.
Start with a trial proposalThese are professional ethics rules we follow, not fine print. They are also a useful filter when you compare grant writers.
Flat project fees and monthly retainers only, agreed before anything is submitted. The Grant Professionals Association Code of Ethics bans percentage and commission fees, and many funders prohibit paying writers out of awarded funds. Funders' dollars go to your programs, not our commission.
Nobody can promise a funder says yes. Decisions rest with funders, take months, and anyone who guarantees you an award is violating the profession's ethics code. What we control is volume, quality, and deadlines. That is what you are buying, and the monthly report proves it.
Nomar Grants is run by Nicholas Dona. Before grants, he spent years managing production programs bound for a global automaker's assembly lines, work where a missed date or a sloppy document stops a factory. Grants are a deadline and compliance discipline too. That is the standard behind the calendar: a tracked pipeline, documented everything, and no missed submission dates.
You know your programs better than any outside writer ever will. What we bring is writing capacity and the discipline to keep applications moving out the door while you run the organization.
Tell us about the program that needs funding. You will hear back within one business day.