For associations and nonprofit centers
Give participating organizations a grant team that builds their funding plan, finds opportunities worth pursuing, and maintains the pipeline throughout the year.
Ten organizations for $9,500, or five for $5,025. No cost to participating organizations.
Choose your cohortA stronger grant pipeline is one part of financial sustainability. Sharke turns the grant portion of each organization's funding plan into opportunities to pursue, relationships to develop and work that keeps moving.
Illustrative example: a community food program.
Its current grant supports this year's services. It needs to start developing the next sources of funding before that grant ends.
A view of what is being built across your cohort.
Pipeline progress measures capacity being built. It is not a claim that funding has been awarded.
Built by someone who has won more than $1 million in federal grants. Collin Brown brings firsthand grant experience and a career as a strategy consultant and investor.
Included in your year of cohort support: a report at the start and at months three, six, nine and twelve. One quarterly report includes the annual edition, timed to your planning meeting.
See the pipeline each organization needs, how much is in place, and what has changed since the starting point. Use it to see where support and follow-through are needed.
Organization A needs a pipeline of 20 grants and 11 funder relationships.
| Pipeline built | At start | Month 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Grants | 2 | 6 |
| Funder relationships | 3 | 4 |
Excerpt from the existing sample. Targets come from public records; the progress figures are made up to show the format. Pipeline progress is not awarded funding.
See where foundation funding is concentrated, where support is thin, and the needs and activities visible in public records. Use it to inform the next year's funding or member support priorities. Explore nonprofits for mission and program fit, starting with organizations whose reported areas of work align with your focus. Each entry shows the public-record evidence and what to confirm about its current programs.
| Area | Share |
|---|---|
| Texas | 13.8% |
| United States | 12.4% |
American Community Survey five-year estimates, 2020 to 2024. This is one excerpt from the Texas public-record sample, prepared October 6, 2026. Reported program activities are not independently measured outcomes.
It covers new grantees of the foundations beside you, concentration of foundation support among organizations of your members' size, where foundation money is thin, local need, the work organizations reported, and organizations to explore beyond the supplied list. Reported activities are not presented as independently measured outcomes.
Foundations beside you are those that funded two or more of your members in the two years before. A new grantee is one a foundation had not funded in those two years. Filing dates are shown because public records lag current activity.
We'll show each organization's starting point and the work we'll deliver. Collin will email your personalized scope and payment terms. Reply “I accept” to approve them, and we begin. Your invoice arrives with the week-one brief, due in 30 days. No call required.
Ten organizations: $9,500 for the cohort, which is $950 per organization.
Trying it first: five organizations at $5,025. Both cover a year of pipeline support.
Funded by your association or a sponsor. Participating organizations pay nothing.
No invoice at acceptance. The invoice goes out with the week-one brief, within 10 business days of the start, and is due in 30 days.
No payment or commitment at this step. You can send your organization list later. We can handle your questions by email.
Prefer to talk it through? Book an optional 15-minute call.
If a sponsored cohort isn't in your budget, would a short demonstration of grant-pipeline support be useful to your members? Members can subscribe individually.
You can share Sharke with members without purchasing a cohort. Each organization chooses and pays for its own subscription; sponsor reporting belongs to the cohort offer.
Arrange a short member demonstration or See the Grant Team subscription.
Sharke handles enrollment and drafts the introduction email for you. Your part is to send the introduction and help connect the participating organizations. An organization that has not taken part by day 60 can be swapped.
Every organization on the scope must have enough IRS filing information to size its pipeline. We establish that before you accept.
Every organization starts with a Grant Funding Viability Assessment: where its funding stands, its runway, the pipeline its goal would take and funders worth verifying.
Sharke then builds and maintains the pipeline with the organization, checking grant and funder fit, tracking deadlines and identifying the next opportunities to pursue. Each organization contributes its program knowledge and makes its funding decisions.
Recommendations are reviewed before they reach your team, with the evidence and any uncertainty made clear.
This can sit alongside the training and capacity-building programs you already support.
See a sample cohort brief or an individual Assessment (PDF).
As a strategy consultant and investor, Collin Brown helped companies decide which opportunities deserved their time and money. He has also won more than $1 million in federal grants across several awards.
He built Sharke to bring those two experiences together: deciding which grants are worth pursuing, then doing the work to pursue them. Collin served in the White House Office of Management and Budget and holds a Wharton MBA.