Elevate is a national leader in nonprofit grant writing services. Nonprofits find us when they need a more strategic approach to grant writing. Our funder insights and full range of grants capabilities set us apart.
Is your grant revenue unpredictable? Is your team stretched too thin?
6,500+
grant proposals written since our founding
51%
average win rate over last three years
$137.2 million
won last year for clients
Nonprofit leaders need a flexible approach to grant writing that does not sacrifice experience or quality. Elevate offers a variety of options that can be tailored to meet your unique needs.
Is your grant revenue unpredictable or not meeting your needs?
Is your grants team struggling with workload, chasing deadlines, or unable to prioritize funder cultivation?
Have you experienced a staff departure?
Elevate can help.
Funders are being inundated by AI-written grant proposals, which means philanthropy is adapting quickly. A winning grant strategy demands deep funder knowledge and their evolving priorities more than ever.
Elevate’s team of experienced grant professionals continuously share trends, funder insights, and proven practices across our client portfolio. We also tailor each request to your overall funding strategy and to the grantmaker’s priorities; ensure your work is framed in the current context; and excel at inclusive, person-first writing. A thoughtful grants expert remains responsible for the strategy, the writing, and the quality of every grant.
After 25 years of service, our organization has undergone a significant evolution to better cater to the evolving needs of our schools and communities. Thanks to Elevate’s unwavering support, we’ve successfully crafted messaging that resonates seamlessly with our core mission and deeply-held values. Moreover, we’ve sharpened our focus on the urgent necessity for restorative justice in schools, empowering us to forge meaningful connections with new funding partners.
Rosa Zamora
Executive Director
Elevate has truly become a part of our team. I appreciate the trust that we have developed over time; we have conversations in which we respectfully push and pull one another in a way that is making us more strategic and competitive for grant funding.
Edith Presley
President
Elevate has worked with hundreds of nonprofits over the past decade. We typically work with established nonprofits across the United States, with annual budgets of at least $1M. Our clients work in education, youth services, workforce development, human services, housing, environment and energy, international aid, advocacy, and the arts.
High-performing grant programs need strategic work to position requests, forecast revenue, and analyze performance. They need operational support for grant calendar management, deadline tracking, and attachment coordination. Many nonprofits also need revenue growth activities like prospect research and funder cultivation. Elevate can manage your full grant program as an extension of your staff. Our Comprehensive Grant Writing Services (CGWS) brings a dedicated team to handle everything and achieve results.
starting at
$5,500 per month, plus admin fee
Monthly fees are all-inclusive and based largely on the number of grant deliverables your organization needs, as well as revenue growth activities and data needs.
Our Ongoing Writing Retainer provides a dedicated Elevate grant writer who drafts, edits, and submits a set number of proposals and reports each month based on your existing grant calendar. If you have senior staff who already lead strategy, prospecting, cultivation, and calendar management, Elevate can provide the reliable writing capacity needed to keep essential work moving.
starting at
$3,500 per month for up to two deliverables
Through our Writing Capacity Projects, an Elevate writer can take on a single high-priority proposal or package of grants and reports. We get up to speed quickly, review the funder’s requirements, create a clear workplan, draft and revise the narrative, coordinate input from your team, and support submission. This service is designed for organizations that have identified a strong-fit opportunity but do not have the internal capacity or specialized experience to complete the application.
starting at
$3,125 fixed-fee engagements
Most federal grant projects start higher because of their additional length and complexity.
Whether you need short-term support or a longer-term partner, Elevate can step in quickly, preserve institutional knowledge, and keep your grant program on track. We offer several flexible ways to maintain momentum during periods of transition depending on the work that needs to get done, from focused support for a set of time-sensitive deliverables to a fractional institutional fundraising team that can provide broader coverage.
High-performing grant programs need strategic work to position requests, forecast revenue, and analyze performance. They need operational support for grant calendar management, deadline tracking, and attachment coordination. Many nonprofits also need revenue growth activities like prospect research and funder cultivation. Elevate can manage your full grant program as an extension of your staff. Our Comprehensive Grant Writing Services (CGWS) brings a dedicated team to handle everything and achieve results.
starting at
$5,500 per month, plus admin fee
Monthly fees are all-inclusive and based largely on the number of grant deliverables your organization needs, as well as revenue growth activities and data needs.
We boost your drafting capacity. Our Ongoing Writing Retainer provides a dedicated Elevate grant writer who drafts, edits, and submits a set number of proposals and reports each month based on your existing grant calendar. If you have senior staff who already lead strategy, prospecting, cultivation, and calendar management, Elevate can provide the reliable writing capacity needed to keep essential work moving.
starting at
$3,500 per month for up to two deliverables
We can write a single grant for you. Through our Writing Capacity Projects, an Elevate writer can take on a single high-priority proposal or package of grants and reports. We get up to speed quickly, review the funder’s requirements, create a clear workplan, draft and revise the narrative, coordinate input from your team, and support submission. This service is designed for organizations that have identified a strong-fit opportunity but do not have the internal capacity or specialized experience to complete the application.
starting at
$3,125 fixed-fee engagements
Most federal grant projects start higher because of their additional length and complexity.
We can cover leave or help with staff transitions. Whether you need short-term support or a longer-term partner, Elevate can step in quickly, preserve institutional knowledge, and keep your grant program on track. We offer several flexible ways to maintain momentum during periods of transition depending on the work that needs to get done, from focused support for a set of time-sensitive deliverables to a fractional institutional fundraising team that can provide broader coverage.
Elevate also offers custom grant solutions, tailored to your revenue goals, internal capacity, funding landscape, and expected volume of work. Check out all of our capabilities.
Nonprofit Grant Writing Services
Elevate’s partnerships combine both strategy and execution, so that today’s deadlines do not come at the expense of tomorrow’s revenue pipeline.
We bring a whole team, along with shared systems and knowledge, so that your grant program does not depend on one person. The result is a more strategic, sustainable, and lower-risk way to build grant revenue—without asking one internal employee to carry the entire function.
Elevate is one of the largest and most successful grant writing firms in the country; when nonprofits partner with us, they benefit from our ready-to-use systems for project management, grant tracking, revenue forecasting, data analysis, and file organization, which we regularly improve. Our nonprofit partners also benefit from premium grant databases, research tools, and industry resources without having to purchase, learn, and manage those tools independently.
Additionally, our clients benefit from more than just their dedicated team of grants professionals. Behind their team, there are trained supervisors, a responsive client relations team that can address both strategy and contract needs, and a leadership team working to continuously innovate Elevate services.
Finally, we know that your needs and your funder landscape never stop changing. We review strategy and scope annually and provide advice to keep your investment aligned with your goals, internal capacity, and funding potential. Whether you need to change your strategy or your scope with us, we will help you make the best decision you can in periods of change and uncertainty.
We write private foundation grants as well as public grants, including city, county, state, and federal government grants. We write letters of inquiry, grant proposals, and grant reports. We draft new funding solicitations as well as renewal funding requests. We also draft initial cases for support and prepare or refresh your grants language bank.
Elevate has experience writing for a wide range of institutional funders and issue areas. Our clients work in health and human services, housing, education, youth services, workforce development, advocacy, policy and organizing, environment and energy, international aid, and the arts. Check out our client list.
All of it — or only the parts you need. We can own the full process, bolster the work of your existing team, or provide focused support for a specific strategic need or grant opportunity.
Elevate can support every stage of your grant writing process, from preparing the workplan and gathering input to drafting and revising the narrative, coordinating budgets and attachments, and completing the submission.
We can also help with every stage of your grant program, from funding landscape analysis, revenue strategy, forecasting, prospect research, and funder cultivation to grant calendars, letters of inquiry, foundation and government proposals, renewals, reports, submissions, data management, and performance analysis.
Yes. Funder research is a core part of Elevate’s comprehensive services. We identify potential funders, assess alignment, review giving history and funding patterns, qualify opportunities, and prioritize the prospects most likely to support your work.
We do not simply hand you a long list of funder names. (In fact, we think a long list of unqualified prospects can leave you in a worse position than a focused list of qualified prospects.) We build a usable, strategic pipeline with clear recommendations about which opportunities deserve your attention and what should happen next.
Funders generally prefer to build relationships with the nonprofit leaders responsible for the work; therefore, we partner with your team rather than separating you from the process. We help your organizational leaders approach funders with greater confidence, preparation, and strategic clarity.
Elevate can help develop outreach plans, draft funder communications, prepare meeting agendas and talking points, participate in conversations, and manage follow-up. We track all of this in our cultivation tracker so you know the status of your outreach to each prospective funder.
Tell us what your organization is trying to achieve, where your team needs additional capacity, and what is getting in the way.
We will help you identify the right level of support and a realistic path toward stronger grant revenue.