You signed the grant. You're also the one who has to remember when the reports are due.
At a lot of small nonprofits there is no grants manager, just you, the award letters, and whatever you can hold in your head. GrantClose keeps every award's dates in one list and reminds you before they're close.
Free for 1 active award, no card required; closed awards never count against that.
Without a grants manager, this is what usually happens
- Reporting dates live in whichever PDF you can find, filed away the day the award arrived.
- You remember the big final report and hope the interim ones turn up in an email search.
- If you're out sick or on leave, nobody else knows what's due.
- A missed report means finding out from the funder, not from your own list.
- Upload each award letter once; every date it finds is one you confirm, not one you assumed.
- Every award's dates sit on one list, with reminders at 30, 14, 7 and 1 days before.
- Hand a deadline's ownership to a board treasurer or bookkeeper when you need to.
- Export a closeout packet when the award ends, kept readable on Free forever.
How it works
From award letter to closeout, without hiring anyone.
- Upload the award letterA PDF with a text layer, or a Word file. No scan, no OCR.
- Confirm the scheduleNothing becomes a deadline until you accept it.
- Decide who backs you upKeep every deadline yourself, or hand some to a board member.
- Export the closeout packetA ZIP you download when the award ends.
If you're holding one or two awards
The manual method works fine on its own, and it costs nothing to try first.
Questions
When do I pay?
Never, for one active award. Free includes every feature and needs no card. You would pay only once you're holding more than one active award at a time (Pro, $39 a month) or sharing ownership across a bigger team (Team, $89 a month).
Do I need a grants manager to use this?
No. It is built for exactly the case where you don't have one: one person holding every award.
Can I hand a deadline to someone else later, like a board treasurer?
Yes. Every deadline has one owner, and you can reassign it to anyone on your GrantClose org at any time.
Does it submit anything to the funder for me?
No. It never contacts a funder and never submits a report. You do that; GrantClose tracks that the report is due, who owns it, and that it went in.
Pricing
Free for 1 active award, 1 seat and 250 MB, with every feature included. No trial, no card to start.
Free
For one award, on your own.
$0
No card
Pro
For a handful of active grants.
$39 per month
or $390 per year
Team
For a small team sharing ownership.
$89 per month
or $890 per year
Full details on the pricing page.
Your award letters already know when the reports are due
Upload one, confirm the dates, and see the next 90 days without reopening a single PDF.
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