Load Your Organization
Tell Main Street Grants about your mission, programs, past grants, and outcomes. We build your knowledge base in one onboarding session, so every draft sounds like you wrote it.
Main Street GrantsGrants found, scored, and drafted. You just review and submit.Who it's built for
Who
Main Street Grants serves the organizations that hold small communities together. Everything a grant writer does, minus the salary.
Small-town governments
Cities, counties, and special districts. CDBG, USDA Rural Development, FEMA hazard mitigation, LWCF, and more.
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Schools and districts
Federal programs, state grants, education foundations. Track every deadline, status, and follow up in one pipeline.
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Churches and faith-based organizations
Faith-aligned and secular drafting from the same knowledge base, so you can apply to the right funders the right way.
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Volunteer fire departments
FEMA AFG, SAFER, Fire Prevention and Safety, USDA Community Facilities, state VFA, and Firehouse Subs grants.
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Rural nonprofits
Community foundations, United Way, USDA Rural Development, corporate community programs, and federal programs with rural priority points.
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Libraries, parks, EMS and more
IMLS and LSTA for libraries, LWCF and KABOOM! for parks, SIREN Act and AFG for EMS and rescue squads.
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The work is not the writing. It's everything around the writing.
Finding the right grants, knowing your odds, tracking deadlines, keeping the board informed. That is the real work. Main Street Grants does all of it.
New opportunities arrive already scored against your mission, so you see the ones worth your time before you spend a weekend on them.
Stop burning weekends on grants you were never going to win. A fit score tells you up front which ones to chase and which to skip.
Your first draft takes an afternoon instead of a month. Every section is drafted from your own mission, programs, and outcomes, not a blank page.
Every deadline, status, and follow up lives in one place. Nothing slips through the cracks because a spreadsheet did not get updated.
The board sees a real pipeline instead of a verbal update. Show them what is in flight, what is scored, and what is submitted, in one view.
How it works
Set it up once. Work the pipeline every week.
Four steps from setup to a pipeline your board can actually read.
Get Matched Every Morning
Main Street Grants scans federal, state, and foundation grant databases overnight and scores new opportunities against your mission. You wake up to a ranked list of grants you actually qualify for.
Draft, Review, Submit
Pick an opportunity and Main Street Grants drafts every section from your knowledge base, narrative style, and past applications. You review, edit, and submit. No blank chat window.
Track Pipeline
Every grant lives in one pipeline dashboard. Deadlines, status, scores, follow ups, and documents. Your board sees a real pipeline instead of a verbal update.
What's inside
Everything a small grants team needs, in four parts.
Five capabilities that replace the spreadsheet, the shared drive, and the blank document.
Find
- Daily scan of federal, state, and foundation grant databases
- Fit score for every opportunity against your mission
- Eligibility checks before you spend time on an application
- Deadline alerts so nothing slips past you
Write
- Five-step guided drafting from your own knowledge base
- Every section written in your voice, not a generic template
- Faith-aligned and secular versions from the same knowledge base
- Letters of inquiry, full proposals, and follow-up reports
Submit
- Submission checklists tailored to each funder
- Required documents tracked and ready
- Application packages organized in one place
- Confirmation and follow-up reminders
Track
- One pipeline dashboard for every grant
- Deadlines, status, scores, and follow ups
- Board-ready pipeline reports
- Win rate tracking over time
Grow
- Knowledge base gets smarter with every application
- Past narratives reused across new opportunities
- Relationship tracking for funders and program officers
- Outcome reports that feed back into future applications
Real results
Real results
Nine organizations run on Main Street Grants today, from a 993-student high school to a city government to a statewide nonprofit.
A high school workspace drafted its first letter of inquiry in its first week.
Every opportunity is checked for eligibility before it reaches your list, so your team spends its time on grants worth applying for.
What people say
"In 14 yrs of writing grants, this is the most amazing thing I have ever seen."
Brandi M.
Professional Grant Writer
"I can't believe it finds the grants, pre-qualifies the grants and drafts them for us!"
Chris B.
The Way Maker Place
Pricing
Priced for organizations that count every line item.
Flat fees, no surprises. No percentage of your award, ever.
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90-Day Pilot
Try it on a real grant before you commit.
One-time
$750
- Your own private grant workspace, live with scored opportunities
- We build your organization's knowledge base with you in one onboarding session
- 1 standard application prepared with you, start to finish. We confirm the size before any work begins, the same way we size Done-For-You credits
- Large proposals and federal applications (AFG, SAFER, CDBG and similar) are not included in the Pilot. If the grant you want is one of those, we quote it separately before starting
- AI drafting assistance and funder research included, no AI account or API key needed
- 30-minute live orientation for your staff
- After 90 days, continue on Done-With-You at $249/mo with the $1,200 setup fee waived, or walk away
Done-With-You
You write and submit with the platform’s help.
Setup
$1,200
Monthly
$249/mo
- Your own private grant workspace, live with scored opportunities on day one
- AI drafting assistance and funder research included, no AI account or API key needed
- Grant calendar with tracked deadlines
- 30-minute live orientation for your staff
- Email support
- Month-to-month, cancel with 30 days notice
- Annual option: $2,490/year (two months free)
Best for busy teams
Done-For-You
We prepare and submit your grants for you.
Setup
$2,500
Monthly
$749/mo
- Everything in Done-With-You
- 1 application credit every month. Unused credits roll over (up to 3 banked, each good for 90 days), so you can save up for big deadlines
- Standard application = 1 credit. Large state or foundation proposal = 2 credits. We confirm the size before any work begins
- Ongoing opportunity monitoring and pursue/skip recommendations
- SAM.gov and UEI registration shepherding included in setup
- Need more? Additional credits: $750 each
- Federal applications (AFG, SAFER, CDBG and similar): from $1,500 per submission.
- Six-month initial term, then month-to-month
- Annual option: $7,490/year (two months free), all 12 credits available on day one
Flat fees, always. We never charge a percentage of your grant award.
Agencies and consultants: white-label licensing is available. Contact us.
Frequently asked questions
Main Street Grants is grant discovery and drafting software built for small towns, schools, churches, and nonprofits. It finds grants you actually qualify for, scores your odds before you apply, and drafts every section from your own mission, programs, and outcomes. It is not a blank chat window. It is a workspace that knows your organization.
Stop guessing which grants are worth your week.
Tell us about your organization and we will reach out within one business day to set you up.