Grant Watch and Filing Calendar
A monthly list of grants that fit you, and a reminder before every filing the state and the IRS expect.
Two things small organizations lose track of: the grants they could have applied for, and the forms that keep them in good standing. Once a month you get an email of open grants that fit your mission, your place and your size, each with its deadline and a link. Alongside it runs a filing calendar, so the SAM.gov renewal or the Attorney General's RRF-1 never sneaks up on you. Falling out of good standing can disqualify an application, so the two belong together.
What's included
- A monthly grant email. Open grants that fit your mission, place and size, with deadlines and links. Fit is judged against each funder's published guidelines.
- Filing reminders 30 days and 7 days before each recurring filing:
- SAM.gov registration renewal
- California Attorney General RRF-1
- IRS Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-N
- Franchise Tax Board Form 199 or 199N
- Secretary of State Statement of Information
- A note of anything new I spot that changes your filings, such as a rule change or a new threshold.
What you do
Read the monthly email and tell me which grants, if any, you want to go after. File each form yourself or through your bookkeeper or accountant, then let me know it's done so the calendar shows it. If your mission or budget changes, tell me and I'll adjust what counts as a fit.
What it costs
| Setup | None |
|---|---|
| Ongoing | $300 a year |
| Bundle | Counts as one ongoing service. Two ongoing services from Grant Watch, the newsletter, Ad Grants and the volunteer portal: 10% off both ongoing fees. Three or more: 15% off all of them. |
How to start
Reply to any email from me and say which services you want. Grant Watch and Filing Calendar is a checkbox on the agreement. If we haven't talked yet, email me a line about what your organization does and roughly what it spends in a year.
Limits, stated plainly
You file. I send the reminder and, if you want, a note on what the form asks for, but I don't prepare or submit the filings themselves. Applying for a grant on the list is a separate application: free if it's your first with me, otherwise the flat fee by type. The list is my best read of fit from what funders publish, not a promise that a funder will say yes, and no fee ever depends on an award.