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Institution snapshot
A fictional institution dashboard with production-scale operating totals and a curated working view.
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Federal grants indexed · foundations mapped
Stop searching for grants. Start matching.
AI-powered grant discovery for research offices, sponsored programs teams, and faculty at colleges and universities. We match faculty expertise to federal funding they're most likely to pursue. Live in days, not months.
Federal-first search with federal grants indexed plus 0 foundations mapped across all 50 states + DC.
✓ Free federal search · ✓ Instant product tour · ✓ Institutional onboarding available
Guided product tour preview showing live platform coverage at the top and the fictional Summit State University sample workspace throughout the dashboard view.
What you'll see in the tour
A realistic walkthrough without a heavy homepage embed
Step 2
Featured opportunities
Ranked grants, closing deadlines, and foundation context shown as a clean working shortlist.
Step 3
Faculty workflow
See how matches, rationale, and pipeline ownership connect across one guided product tour.
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Foundations Mapped
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Available Funding
Grant It Forward
We don't just help colleges find grants. We help fund the next wave of rural and underserved education-focused work.
Grant Nexus reserves 5% of subscription revenue for rural, regional, tribal, community-college, and other underserved education-focused grant support.
Focus area
Rural and regional colleges
Mission-aligned grant support for institutions and initiatives that often operate with leaner staffing and tighter budgets.
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Community colleges
Mission-aligned grant support for institutions and initiatives that often operate with leaner staffing and tighter budgets.
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Tribal-serving institutions
Mission-aligned grant support for institutions and initiatives that often operate with leaner staffing and tighter budgets.
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Underserved education initiatives
Mission-aligned grant support for institutions and initiatives that often operate with leaner staffing and tighter budgets.
Grant discovery is broken.
✗Faculty often spend significant time searching for and managing grants instead of doing research.
✗Many enterprise tools require major budget and lengthy implementation — often overkill for lean research offices.
✗Grants.gov search is a nightmare — search "watermelon" and get Egyptian math programs.
✗Smaller and mid-sized colleges get ignored — many tools were built for larger research enterprises first.
Grant Nexus fixes this.
✓AI matches grants to each faculty member — stop searching, start winning.
✓From $299/month, live quickly — built for lean teams.
✓Built for higher-ed teams that need results, not bureaucracy — research offices, sponsored programs, and faculty workflows.
✓Free search, instant tour — no gatekeeping, no games.
How It Works
From roster intake to faculty matches in days, not months.
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Share Your Faculty Roster
Send us your faculty directory URL or upload a CSV. We extract research interests and expertise automatically.
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AI Finds Matches
Our AI analyzes federal grants against each faculty profile. Semantic matching, not just keywords.
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Faculty Take Action
Each faculty member gets a personalized dashboard with their top matches, explanations, and direct links to apply.
Why Teams Switch to Grant Nexus
Built for institutions that want clear pricing, fast rollout, and faculty-level matching without enterprise overhead.
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Transparent pricing
See the paid tiers, trial path, and guarantee before you ever book a call.
Free federal search and a 14-day no-card trial remove procurement guesswork.
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Faster rollout
Lean research offices do not need a long enterprise implementation cycle to start matching.
Roster intake to faculty-level matching is designed to happen in days, not months.
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Researcher-level matching
Grant Nexus matches opportunities to individual faculty expertise instead of stopping at institution-wide keywords.
Semantic matching helps teams surface relevant fits that brittle keyword search can miss.
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Free search before procurement
Your team can evaluate federal opportunity coverage before deciding whether to buy a managed workflow.
Search first, shortlist opportunities, then upgrade only when the deeper workflow is worth it.
Best for lean research offices
Choose Grant Nexus when transparent pricing, fast onboarding, and faculty-level federal matching matter most.
Use an enterprise suite when
You need a broader pre-award and post-award operating system with heavier implementation and process depth.
Use a broad prospecting database when
You prioritize the widest non-federal or international coverage over a federal-first institutional matching workflow.
Need a direct side-by-side?
Dedicated compare pages stay factual and concise. Market packaging and rollout details can change, so confirm current terms directly with each vendor.
Turn search into a live grant workflow.
Search free today. Upgrade when you see the value.
Questions? Email info@grantnexus.ai