Understanding Grant Discovery and Readiness in the Nonprofit Hub
The Bonterra Nonprofit Hub gives your organization connected tools to improve how you find, evaluate, and apply for grants — taking you from initial discovery all the way to a tailored first draft, inside the same platform.
These tools are designed to work in sequence. GrantMatch helps you surface funding opportunities aligned to your organization's profile. Grant analysis helps you decide whether a specific grant is worth pursuing before you invest your team's time. Once you've made the call to apply, proposal generation gives you a structured head start on the application itself.
GrantMatch
GrantMatch is the starting point for finding grants in the Nonprofit Hub. It draws on your organization profile — including your mission, programs, populations served, and geographic service area — to surface funding opportunities aligned to your work, with help from Bonterra Que. Results include eligibility requirements, deadlines, award amounts, and an alignment indicator so you can quickly assess fit. When you find an opportunity worth pursuing, save it directly from GrantMatch to track it in your account and pick up with the next steps.
Grant analysis
When you open a grant you're tracking, you get a detailed analysis of that opportunity against your organization's profile. The analysis covers three dimensions — eligibility, effort to apply, and award profile — plus a set of considerations that surface obligations and logistics worth knowing before you commit. Each dimension answers a specific question so your team can make a confident go/no-go decision.
Proposal generation
Once you've decided to pursue a grant, use the proposal generation tool to get a structured draft tailored to what the funder is actually asking for. Sections are derived from the grant's requirements rather than a fixed template, and the content is built from your organization profile, program context, funder priorities, and (when available) your prior grant analysis results. You can upload past proposals to match your writing style, revise individual sections, and download the finished draft for use in your application.
How they work together
GrantMatch, grant analysis, and proposal generation share the same underlying data. GrantMatch surfaces opportunities matched to your profile; grant analysis evaluates the ones you want to pursue against your eligibility, effort, and award considerations; and proposal generation uses those findings to shape a targeted draft. When you run an analysis on a grant and then generate a proposal for that same grant, the proposal generation uses your eligibility signals, effort estimate, and award profile findings to frame sections around your alignment strengths and proactively address flagged considerations. You don't have to run an analysis before generating a proposal, but doing so — and having a complete, current organization profile from the start — produces a more informed and targeted result at every step.
What do you need help with?
- How do I explore grant opportunities with Bonterra’s GrantMatch?
- How does Grant Analysis work?
- How do I interpret my Grant Evaluation?
- How do I make a Go/No-Go Grant decision?
- What is grant proposal drafting in the Nonprofit Hub?
- How do I generate and refine a Grant proposal?