Before you write the application, find out whether you should.
Every opportunity is scored against what your organization actually is: your mission, your vision, your values, your programs, the people you serve and where you work, against what the funder will fund and who they will fund. Seven dimensions, four of them checkable arithmetic, and the reasoning shown for all of them.
Opportunity
Youth Services Block Grant
Scored against Aumelia After-School
- Award size against program cost$75K ceiling vs $68K cost
- Time before the deadline31 days to deadline
- What you can show for it2 of 3 outcomes recorded
- Documented need behind the programNeed profile on file
- Who may apply501(c)(3), under $2M budget
- Where the funder givesStatewide, you work in 2 counties
- What the funder funds“Out-of-school time” vs youth services
The seven dimensions
What actually gets compared.
Marked so you always know which kind of answer you are looking at. Computed means the software worked it out and you can check the sum. Needs review means it found the question and left the judgement to you. The top row is the first kind; the row under it is the second.
Award size against program cost
ComputedThe award range against what the program actually costs. A ceiling below your cost is a partial contribution, not a mismatch, and a floor well above it means applying would stretch the design to fit the money.
Time before the deadline
ComputedHow long there is before the deadline, against what a real submission takes.
What you can show for it
ComputedWhat you can actually show for the work, from the outcomes already recorded in your programs.
Documented need behind the program
ComputedWhether documented need sits behind the program at all. Most funders ask why the program is necessary, and this is the answer they are asking for.
Who may apply
Needs reviewWhether your organization may apply at all, read against the stated eligible applicants and the requirements attached to them.
Where the funder gives
Needs reviewWhere the funder gives, against where you work.
What the funder funds
Needs reviewWhat the funder funds, against what your programs are.
The result comes back as one of five: Aligns well, Worth a look, Poor alignment, Aligns, but blocked, Not enough recorded to say. “Aligns, but blocked” is kept separate from “Poor alignment” on purpose, because they call for opposite responses. A poorly aligned opportunity should be dropped. A blocked one should be unblocked.
The need against the money
Fundable and necessary are not the same question.
So they are scored apart and then placed against each other. Every program lands in one of these, and the one that costs organizations the most is not the one that looks worst.
Strong opportunity, worth pursuing
The need is documented and the funding aligns. This is the quadrant everything else is trying to reach.
Needed, but the funding strategy needs work
The need holds up and nothing on file fits it. The program is not the problem; the funding search is.
Money is available and the need is not established
Money is available and the need was never established. This looks like the best square on the board, because money is visible and need is abstract, and it is the one that produces programs you cannot explain three years later.
Weak rationale on both sides
Neither side holds. Better to know before you write the application than after you win it.
FundWisr will not tell you a grant is worth chasing because the money is there. Where the need has not been established, it says so plainly, in a sentence, rather than in a colour.
How it works
Four steps, none of them a form you have to fill in twice.
Everything here reads what is already on file. If you have run the assessment and recorded your programs, the scoring has what it needs.
Your profile is the input, not a form
Fit is scored against what is already on file: mission, vision, core values, the problem you exist to address, your strategic priorities, your programs, the population you serve and where you work. There is no separate intake to fill in.
Each opportunity is scored on seven dimensions
Four are settled by arithmetic, an award ceiling against a program budget, a deadline against today. Three are handed back for a person to judge. They are never presented as the same kind of answer.
The need is checked separately from the money
A needed program is not automatically a fundable one, and a fundable program is not automatically a needed one. The two are scored apart and then placed against each other, which is the check most funding decisions skip.
You get a band and the reasoning behind it
Every score cites the specific facts compared. Where your profile is too thin to judge honestly, the system says so and names what is missing instead of producing a number it cannot stand behind.
In the product
Where this lives.
Per-opportunity fit sits inside Grant Intelligence, the organization-wide readiness score comes from the Diagnostic Engine across thirteen domains, and the Command Center shows what the two of them together say needs attention.
Real screens from the product. Every figure shown belongs to a demonstration workspace, so nothing here is a real organization's information.
Diagnostic Center
Get an honest read before a funder gives you one.
Thirteen instruments across every part of the organization.
Questions, answered plainly.
Does it tell me whether I will win the grant?+
No, and it will not guess. It scores fit: whether you may apply, whether the money matches the work, whether the funder funds what you do. It does not model competition or odds, and nothing in FundWisr predicts an award.
What happens if my profile is incomplete?+
You get no score and a list of the specific facts that are missing. A confident number produced from an empty profile is worse than no number, because you would act on it.
Why are only some dimensions scored automatically?+
An award ceiling against a program budget is arithmetic and can be checked. Whether "youth development" matches a funder's stated interest in "out-of-school time programming" is a judgement a person makes in a minute and a keyword match gets wrong in both directions. Those are surfaced for review rather than scored as though settled.
Where does this live in the product?+
Inside Grant Intelligence for a specific opportunity, and on each program for the need-against-funding picture. It is not a separate tool you have to remember to visit.
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