UniverseAsk @funding to find every grant you fit and apply
You name it, you teach it your work, and it runs on your Mac using the plan you already pay for. What comes back is done.
- @funding Find every foundation and federal grant for youth literacy in our county and apply to the ones due this quarter — stop before you submit.
- @funding Which funders ask for an audit, and is ours recent enough for each of them?
- @funding Write a thank-you to everyone who gave this month, by name, saying what their gift paid for, and leave them in drafts.
- @funding Every Monday, check Grants.gov and the foundations I follow for new calls, and start an application for each one we fit.
Say what you fund. Watch it apply. Read it before it goes in.
No portal to click through twice and no attachment hunted for at eleven at night. You say what the organisation does and where to stop, and you can watch every application get filled.
You say what you fund
"Youth literacy, our county, grants over $10,000 — find what we fit and apply." The determination letter, the 990 and last year's applications are already in the folder.
You watch it apply
Every form it fills shows up as a step while it fills it. It stops before Submit, and anywhere the funder asks something only you can answer.
You get the tracker
Every grant, its deadline, what it asked for and what went in, with the report dates behind it. Sorted by what is due next.
It keeps the paperwork moving while you run the program
The deadlines that slip in a small team are the ones it runs on a schedule — on your Mac, with your logins — and each one ends with a line saying what it did.
- Every MondayGrants.gov and the foundations you follow, for new calls→ the ones you fit, with an application started
- Two weeks outWhat each open application still needs→ a note naming the missing attachment
- First of the monthReports due to funders in the next sixty days→ a draft of each, from the program numbers
- Every FridayThe week's gifts, from the CRM you're signed into→ a thank-you drafted for each donor
- Every quarterThe audit, the 990, the policies and the board packet→ what is out of date, and the packet ready to read
What you get back is an application, not advice
Chat tells you what a strong need statement should do. Universe writes the one this funder asked for, inside their word counts, with the attachments they listed already in it — and then gets on with the rest of the week.
- .xlsx
The grant tracker
Every call you fit — funder, amount, deadline, what it needs — every award with its reports due, and a tab of this year's donors with who has not been thanked yet.
- .docx
The application and the policies
Each application written to the funder's questions, and any policy they require that you don't have yet — conflict of interest, whistleblower — drafted as a .docx for the board to adopt.
- .key
The report back and the board packet
The funder's interim or final report, and the quarter's packet for the board — program numbers and budget against actuals, charted, from the files you pointed at.
- live
Your document room
A private page with the 501(c)(3) letter, the 990s, the audit and every policy, each with the date it was last updated — the link you send when a funder asks.
It works where the grants already are
A chat window can only hand you text. This runs on your Mac, signed into the funder portals, your donor CRM and your email as you — so the application actually gets filled.
Your browser. Grants.gov, the foundation portals and your donor CRM, in the Chrome you're already signed into. It fills the application, attaches the documents and stops before Submit.
Your files. The 501(c)(3) letter, the 990s, the audit, the board list and every policy, read in one folder on your Mac — the same folder a funder's checklist is checked against.
Your mail and calendar. Letters of inquiry, follow-ups to program officers and donor thank-yous, drafted from your own address. Every deadline, report and board meeting goes on your calendar.
Your team. A room for the grants team where the agent is in the conversation — the director, the finance lead and the development lead can each set it going from their own Mac.
A second Mac. Monday's grant search runs on the office Mac while you're out running the program.
Your own plan. It runs on the Claude or ChatGPT subscription you already pay for. That bill stays yours, and we don't mark it up.
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