Grant Tools & Templates

Grant trackers, budgets, proposal scoring and funder research tools, plus guides to Google, Microsoft, Canva and Azure nonprofit programs.

Start with the guide: Grant Management for Small Nonprofits: A Practical Guide

All 11 grants tools

Grant Opportunity Tracker

Excel + Google Sheets

Boards often hear the total of every grant in the pipeline, which is the one figure a grants manager knows won't arrive.

Canva Pro for Nonprofits

PDF guide

Communications leads at registered charities often treat a rejected Canva for Nonprofits application as a final no.

Google Ad Grants Guide

PDF guide

Approval for Google Ad Grants often goes quiet afterwards: the account runs, spends little of the monthly credit, and nobody looks.

Grant Proposal Scoring Matrix

Excel + Google Sheets

Many grant teams read a strong internal review score as permission to submit, even when one mandatory item is still missing.

Microsoft 365 for Nonprofits

PDF guide

Operations leads with Microsoft 365 approved often stall at the domain step, and staff keep using personal email for months.

Grant Budget Template

Excel + Google Sheets

Grant writers finishing the budget the night before a deadline rarely have time to trace where each unit rate came from.

Funder Prospect Research System

Excel + Google Sheets

Shortlists that keep every promising funder end up with more bids than the team has hours to write, and the best ones get rushed.

AI for Nonprofits Guide

PDF guide

Executive directors who put off choosing an approved AI tool find staff pasting work documents into personal accounts anyway.

AI Grant Writing Playbook

PDF guide

Writing the executive summary first feels efficient, until the proposal body drifts away from what the summary promised.

Nonprofit Tech Grant Guide

PDF guide

Rejection emails from nonprofit tech programs usually point to a fixable file, not an organization that doesn't qualify.

Azure Nonprofit Grant Guide

PDF guide

Unused Azure nonprofit credit doesn't roll over, so a quiet year on the account is value lost without anyone noticing.