Brooklyn, NY · Funding desk · Issue 11 · November 2026
Research, drafts, and edits for small nonprofits & local businesses
Grants researched, written, and edited — then filed before the portal closes. For small nonprofits and local businesses in Brooklyn, NY and beyond.
Your work is real and your community knows it. The funder, though, has forty applications open in forty tabs. I make yours the one that reads clean, scores high, and is done before the deadline.
The people I write for
You know the work cold. The portal, the logic model, the “describe your theory of change in 2,000 characters” box — that part is mine.
The billing
One submission. One invoice.
Half when we kick off, half when it’s filed. Funding scans start at $265.
See the full price list →Research comes first
Already have a draft?
I cut the throat-clearing, map every paragraph to the funder’s scoring rubric, and proof it twice.
Home base: 8808 Ave B, Brooklyn, NY 11236.
Calls and screen-shares most weeks. Need to talk through a draft across a table? Book a slot and come by.
Every submission passes through the same table: guidelines on the left, your story in the middle, the budget narrative taking shape on the right.
Twenty minutes, no charge. Tell me the mission, the budget size, and the deadline that’s making your stomach drop. Within three business days I send back a shortlist of funders that actually fit — ask size, due date, and a straight read on fit.
Narrative, budget justification, and the attachments checklist land in one shared doc. You get two full rounds of edits. Comment like you’re texting a friend — I’ll translate it into funder-speak.
I upload through the portal (or hand you a final PDF if it’s emailed in), screenshot the confirmation, and leave you a boilerplate bank — mission, bios, budget language — so the next application starts ahead instead of from a blank page.
Billed per submission, by invoice — half at kickoff, half when it’s filed. Pick the scope that matches your deadline; we’ll confirm it on the call.
Eight funders matched to your mission, budget size, and zip code — each with deadline, typical ask, and a note on fit. Delivered in three business days.
Your draft, my red pen: structure, clarity, rubric alignment, and a clean final proof. Up to 15 pages, two rounds of changes.
Funder research, outline, narrative, budget justification, and portal upload for one submission up to 25 pages. Two rounds of revisions and a boilerplate bank at the end.
Multi-section state or federal packets: logic model, evaluation plan, attachments checklist, and registration-ready assembly. Scoped on a call, quoted in writing.
Invoices accepted by:
ACHCheckCardZelleThe short, unglamorous answers. Anything missing, ask on the call.
No — and anyone who does is selling you something. What I control is fit, clarity, completeness, and the application landing before the portal closes. Funders decide the rest.
About three weeks from the kickoff call, quicker if the guidelines are already in hand. A funding scan lands in three business days. Deadline closer than that? Say so on the first call — some weeks I can fit a rush.
Often, yes. Local business grants exist, and so do funders who accept fiscally sponsored projects. The scan tells you what you’re eligible for before you spend on a full draft.
The funder’s guidelines, your story in whatever messy form it lives in, a budget, and one person who can answer my questions within two days. The checklist below has the details.
You do. You get the final files plus a boilerplate bank of your org story, bios, and budget language to reuse on the next application.
A funder reads forty of these in a week. Yours should be the one they don’t skim.
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