Nonprofits with no grant office
You do not have a grant office. You have deadlines passing while no one owns the pipeline.
Somewhere on your list right now is a grant worth pursuing this cycle. No one has the hours to find out which one. The deadlines you meant to hit pass quietly, while you and your staff are working elsewhere.
Find your funding gap →What your team cannot see yet
You cannot tell which of these grants can actually be won.
Even with the hours, every grant on that list would go out on a guess about whether the funder was ever a real fit. Some of them are not long shots. They have no documented path to funding at all, and right now there is no way to tell which ones.
In the grant pipelines Sharke has reviewed, about 1 in 4 had no path. Staff time went into them anyway, and it was never coming back.
- Hours spent on grants that were never a fit.
- Grants pursued on a guess, not a documented path.
- Deadlines that passed before anyone looked.
- Good funders you never found.
Share of pipeline grants with no documented path to funding: based on grant pipelines reviewed by Sharke.
Why waiting is already late
Next year's funding is being decided right now.
The funders who will write checks next year are building those relationships this cycle. The programs renewing next year are reviewing who fits now. None of it waits for the moment you decide you need the money. By then the cycle is underway and the room is full.
Roughly 70% of foundations do not accept unsolicited proposals. That money goes where a funder already knows the organization. The relationship that puts you in that group forms months before the grant exists, not the week you apply. Sharke surfaces the invite-only funders worth building toward now, so the door is open before you need it.
Federal programs freeze and priorities shift, and a grant you won before is no longer a safe bet to win again. When you need to replace that funding fast, there is no fast. The pipeline that catches the loss is the one you started before it happened. Sharke verifies whether a program is funding this cycle and whether you still fit what it funds now, before anyone spends the 50-plus hours a federal application takes.
If you wait until the grant is needed, you are already late.
Share of U.S. foundations that do not accept unsolicited proposals: Foundation Center / Candid.
What Sharke does
Sharke becomes your grant office.
Sharke builds and manages a verified pipeline for you: the grant office function itself, run for you, from finding the grants worth pursuing to a finished draft. Not one more thing for your team to learn and run.
- Step 1 Verifies fit before any hours go in. Eligibility, funder history, your size and geography, where you sit in the funding cycle. Every grant comes back with one verdict and the sources behind it, not a score or a percentage. Pursue Wait Move on
- Step 2 Surfaces the grants and funders worth your time. Sharke watches the funders that match your mission and surfaces better-fit grants you are not tracking, each one carrying its own verdict, plus the funder relationships worth building toward now. You add only what has a documented path, never a longer list to triage.
- Step 3 Drafts the ones you choose to pursue. Written against the funder's real requirements and grounded in your organization's own materials, not a generic template.
- Step 4 Tracks every deadline and submission. Nothing slips while you run the rest of the organization.
What a verdict looks like
A real verdict, with the sources behind it.
Illustrative example. Your verdicts are built from each funder's own documented record.
What you get
A verified pipeline that de-risks your mission's funding.
You get the output of a grant office: a pipeline where every grant has been checked for a real path, decisions you can defend to your board, and drafts ready for you to review. The funding behind your programs stops resting on grants no one verified.
You do not get another hire to manage, another salary to cover, or another system to keep running.
What this changes
Before
Grants happen when someone has a free afternoon. You find out a funder was wrong after the time is already gone.
After
Grants run on a schedule someone else keeps. You see the verdict before the work starts, and review drafts instead of writing them.
Once you have seen a pipeline run on a schedule someone else keeps, going back to grants as everyone's spare-afternoon job stops feeling like a plan.
Who built it
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
From a team that ran it
"What hit me was realizing how much time we were putting into grants that were never really live opportunities for us. We had a couple that looked completely reasonable on the surface, but once we dug into who the funder actually supported, it changed the conversation pretty fast. I'd rather know that before my staff disappears into another month of work."
Executive Director · Community health nonprofit · $850K budgetQuestions
Before you decide
When can we start?
You can book a grant office review now. Self-serve signups open with the beta on June 22, 2026.
What if we have not identified any grants yet?
That is the common starting point. Sharke finds and qualifies the funders that fit your mission, so you begin from a verified shortlist instead of a blank page.
Is this AI, or is a person involved?
Both. Sharke does the research and drafting, and every verdict is built from documented funder filings, 990s, award history, and eligibility, not AI guesses. With the grant office plan, the Sharke team manages the work for you.
Do we have to sign a contract?
No. It is month to month, and you can cancel anytime.
Start running grants like you have an office.
Somewhere on your list right now is a deadline that closes this cycle, and a funder who will not hear from you before it does. Nothing moves until someone owns it. Book a grant office review, bring the grants already in motion, and see where the documented path is before another month of staff time gets committed.
Sharke does the grant work. Your team reviews and approves. You do not hire a department, you get one.
Priced to how much of your mission rides on grants: $250 at about half, $350 at three-quarters, $450 at essentially all. Federal grants over $100k added per application.
A limited founding cohort. Founding rates rise once references exist.
No contract. Cancel anytime.
Consultant cost: $50 to $100 an hour, mid-level (2025 to 2026), for the work an organization with about half its funding from grants takes on, roughly 1.5 applications a month at 30 hours each.
Not ready for the full office?
Check one grant first. We run the same verification on a single grant, so you know before the next 20 to 30 hours go in.
One grant: $49An answer in 24 hours. You never pay to be told no.
Check one grant for $49 →The problem is rarely the one grant already in motion. Find your funding gap and see what share of your current pipeline can actually fund the year.
You do not need to find more grants to chase.
You need an office that runs them. That is what Sharke is.