Executive & Development Directors
In 24 hours: where your grant funding is most exposed, where it is strongest, and the one move to make next.
The Funding Path Checkup is a personalized read of your grant funding, built from your own filings and real award history. You get your biggest exposure, your strongest opportunity, and one clear recommendation. If you have a grant in front of you, we read that one too.
Get your Funding Path Checkup →A 24-hour read: your exposure, your opportunity, your next move.
For nonprofits with $150K to $10M in revenue.
The next 20 to 30 hours your team spends are about to go into a grant no one has verified.
AI keeps expanding the number of grants you can see. It does not expand the number worth your team's hours.
What we do
We read your funding the way a funder reads you, from the filings and the award history.
You bring your organization. We build a read of where your grant funding actually stands: where you are most exposed, where your strongest opportunity is, and the one move worth making next. It is grounded in real 990s and award history over the last three cycles, the way funders actually apply it, never a database of what they say they want. If you have a grant in front of you, we read that one too and tell you whether it holds up before the hours go in.
- → Eligibility as the funder actually applies it
- → Award history: who they fund, not what they say
- → Organization size, geography, and budget fit
- → Cycle status and timing
These are the dimensions behind every read, the same ones that decide whether a grant funds you.
What you get
A prioritized read of your funding. In your hands in 24 hours.
Every $49 Checkup ends with the same three things: your biggest exposure, your strongest opportunity, and one clear recommendation, each grounded in the funder behavior behind it. If you brought a grant, you also get a verdict on it, Pursue, Wait, or Move on, with the evidence.
Here is what the grant verdict looks like, in real cases with identifying details changed.
When the funder behind your grant won't fund an org like yours, we say so, with the evidence:
And this is what a grant that holds up looks like, the one worth your team's hours:
Where the read comes from
Not a database of what funders say. A read of what they actually fund.
We start from your EIN and one line on what your org does. From there we read funder behavior against real award history: who they fund by size, geography, and whether they take new grantees at all. That is what turns a vague sense of your funding into a prioritized picture of where you are exposed and where you are strong.
Twenty names. You sort out which, if any, your org actually fits.
A prioritized read built from award history, signed off by a person, evidence attached. Your exposure, your opportunity, your move.
The verdict is categorical
Pursue, Wait, or Move on. Never a percentage. Never a match score.
Pursue
A documented case behind it, the award history to back it. Your team writes on ground that can win.
Wait
Not worth pursuing yet. The specific gap named, with the condition that would change the verdict.
Move on
No documented case for this grant. 20 to 30 hours back, and the recommendation on where they belong instead.
More grants come back Wait or Move on than teams expect. When yours does, the Checkup still hands you the bigger picture: where your funding is exposed, where your strongest opportunity is, and the move to make next. You never finish empty handed.
You never pay to be told no.
Every Checkup ends with a clear picture you can act on: your exposure, your opportunity, and the move to make next. If the grant your team is on does not hold up, you will know before the hours go in.
I have spent my career replacing gut calls with data: how the largest financial institutions set their global IT footprint, when mergers and acquisitions create value instead of destroying it, and which grants are worth winning, at for-profit and nonprofit organizations from NIH, NSF, and USDA to Meta and Google. I have done that work across the private sector and the White House Office of Management and Budget, and I sign off on every Sharke verdict myself.
Collin Brown / Wharton MBA / Founder, Sharke.ai / NVIDIA Inception 2026The second cost
A submission to the wrong funder doesn't just get rejected. It shapes how your name reads the next time it lands in that inbox.
The funder relationships that decide next year's funding are forming right now. A pipeline with zero relationships in development this quarter is already behind for the next cycle, and the hours that would have built them are going into a grant the funder was never going to award.
"We were already three weeks into a federal grant we had no realistic path to winning. The verdict flagged a match-funding requirement buried in the supplementary guidelines, and we had no way to cover the match. We stopped. The hours that would've gone into writing went to two state opportunities instead, and one landed 90 days later. Honestly, we'd have burned the quarter chasing the federal one. The $49 saved us 60 hours."
Executive Director, $1.2M workforce development nonprofitGet your Funding Path Checkup.
Tell us your org, and if you have a grant in motion, send that too. In 24 hours you get the read: your biggest exposure, your strongest opportunity, and the one move to make next.
Not running the Checkup is still a decision. It just commits the next round of work before you know where your funding actually stands.
The Checkup costs you a day. Not running it risks the next three weeks of work, and the revenue that doesn't come in.
$49. In 24 hours, a prioritized read of your grant funding: your biggest exposure, your strongest opportunity, and one clear recommendation, every finding source-cited and forwardable to your board. If you brought a grant, a Pursue, Wait, or Move on verdict on it, checked against funder award behavior over the last three cycles.
Every Checkup ends with a clear read you can act on. You never pay to be told no.
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The next 20 to 30 hours are going somewhere either way.
The only question is whether they go where your funding is actually strong. In 24 hours, you'll know, and you'll have the first piece of a Verified Pipeline that closes your Funding Gap.