Find your story.
Fund your mission.
For Granted helps your mission-driven non-profit or start-up company capture, structure and unleash your institutional story, making it the centerpiece of your fund-seeking strategy.
For Granted helps your mission-driven non-profit or start-up company capture, structure and unleash your institutional story, making it the centerpiece of your fund-seeking strategy.
An inventory of your story. The complete, centralized, running-record of who your organization is: public and private; past, present, and fund-worthy future.
Layer I
Everything the world can see: website, annual reports, social media, IRS 990, news coverage. Your visible identity layer.
Layer II
Behind the scenes: strategic plans, past grants, board documents, program logic, internal decisions. Your operational truth layer.
Layer III
Active excavation through conversation: interviews with your leaders, staff, volunteers, board and clients. These voices enrich the story by providing the soul layer.
Accumulate. Accelerate. Appreciate.
Grant portals that reward polish over impact. Leaders who can explain their mission beautifully in conversation, but freeze when faced with a 12-page application.
Institutional memory locked in someone's head, lost when they leave. The same narratives rewritten from scratch every funding cycle, never compounding.
The more effort you invest, the more fruitless it seems.
80%
of grant questions are variations of the same 10 asks, yet most organizations answer them from scratch each time
$0
in additional impact from last-minute heroics. An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of funding.
"If it is not captured, it cannot compound."
The founding belief of For Granted
Every engagement follows the same disciplined arc of collection, centralization, conversation and creation. Every organization's story is unique, but its power is universal.
We go everywhere your story lives: websites, social, news outlets, IRS filings. We read it all and get to know who you say that you are.
Strategic plans, past grant applications, board reports, program logic, budget history. We collect, organize, and begin recognizing patterns and connecting dots between who you say that you are publicly, and what you do internally.
We meet you where you are. We consult your Executive Director, leadership, staff, the board, clients. We capture and extract the authentic language of your organization: the words that no document can capture.
We organize and centralize everything: mission, programs, outcomes, financials, evidence and partnerships. We wrap around it rich context of your field of service or market, enriching the story.
A structured, searchable knowledge system, that you own. Not only for fund-seeking, but onboarding and impact reporting. The library of answers. The engine of consistency. The foundation of every future application.
Every future application is composed from the living, authoritative library of who you are. It evolves with your journey, incorporating future programming. It compounds over time. You stop starting from scratch and instead from a place of preparation.
A complete, structured institutional library of your organizational narrative, made searchable and usable. The public layer, the internal layer and the living voice.
Leverage the Inven(s)tory to DIY grant applications, or have us do it for you. Our underlying philosophy is to be easy to do business with.
Surface consistencies and contradictions, and under-leveraged stories you didn't know you had. Most organizations find their stories more compelling than they even knew, with the benefit of the full picture.
When you stop starting from scratch, and searching for that outdated past grant application, you're freed up to focus on what's most important: your mission.
The knowledge does not leave when people do. Site visit transcripts, leadership interviews, and decision rationale are captured and preserved: your organization's history in its own words.
Unleash the power of your grant subscriptions by using your Inven(s)tory to reveal only the most mission-aligned funding opportunities. You went from writing problem, to match-making problem, to no problem at all with the Inven(s)tory.
For Granted serves organizations interested in bettering, and funder-readying their stories. We call Northeast Ohio home, but we'll go wherever your story takes us.
Our service and deep experience has reached:
Start-Up companies seeking early-stage capital
Tech companies
Higher education
Public sector and civic institutions
Recovery and Substance Use Disorder organizations
Cancer foundations
Health and human services non-profits
OneOhio Recovery Foundation
Deep public funding strategy applicable nationwide: analysis of past grantees, region-by-region abatement strategy alignment, and deep research in evidence-based practices. Six applications across four Substance Use Disorder assistance organizations with collective asks in excess of $2 million dollars.
Hope Heroes
Assisted in the raising of nearly a quarter of a million dollars for support animals that serve critically ill children for the world's most successful Junior Achievement Company Program.
AOP
Earned over $3 million dollars for the installation of fiber internet in rural Louisiana through the state's GUMBO broadband access fund.
Start-Ups and Health Tech
Assisting countless companies, entrepreneurs and solopreneurs in seeking non-dilutive funding and establishing their businesses.
Being easy to do business with.
The story is the center.
For Granted getting paid should depend on you getting funded.
Our values align with yours.
In your mission.
Co-Founder, CEO
Tyler is an accomplished start-up ecosystem professional, a builder of the builders of companies with adventures in venture and founder mentorship. He has assisted in the successful fund-seeking pursuits of dozens of companies and non-profits.
Their unique and valuable friendship extends beyond each other to those they serve at For Granted.
Co-Founder, Chief Relationship Officer
Shane is an accomplished fund-seeker and story-crafter, with eclectic backgrounds in tech, human services, education and non-profit grant-writing, with a designer's eye for simplicity.
Their unique and valuable friendship extends beyond each other to those they serve at For Granted.
“At For Granted, we focus on submission so you can focus on your mission.”
The founding vision