About AI Grant Helper

Nathan Krupa is an Almoner — a servant of the poor.

In 15 years of writing grants for Golden Harvest Food Bank, he has raised over $20 million to feed the hungry: warehouses, trucks, equipment, and millions of meals. He is the author of Letters from the Almoner (2018), a practical guide to nonprofit fundraising.

Nathan publishes on fundraising at thealmoner.com and writes on the spiritual life at NathanKrupa.Substack.com. He built AI Grant Helper so that he could have the exact tool he always wanted. AI Grant Helper is a tool built by a grant writer for grant writers.

Why I built this

You shouldn't need a grant to find a grant.

The best foundation databases cost thousands of dollars a year. Most small ministries just can't afford that. So the people serving the poor go without.

AI Grant Helper is the tool for grant writers. I'm building the tool that I want to open every day to get my work done. At the end of the day, it's not just about the work, it's about the mission. Search 148,000 private foundations and 27,000 federal opportunities in one place. See who funds what, where, how much. Save the ones that fit. Track them through to award.

And it's priced so the cost of finding a grant doesn't become a barrier to doing the work. $20 a month for a single organization. The kind of number you can put on a credit card and not get approved by the board.

A work in progress

This is brand new. I'm leveraging AI as much as I can because it means that one guy with a laptop can build something that helps others do the work. My goal is to make it better every day. Better data, better layout, better matches. Every day, the tool gets sharper. What you see today is the worst version this product will ever be.

My goal is simple: help grant writers find the resources they need to serve the people who need them. That's the whole thing.