Grant Frog for higher education
Your institution.
One central grants workspace.
Bring funder research, proposals, deadlines, and grant reports into one place. Support institutional advancement with a shared view of grant activity across every school and campus.
Loved by advancement and grants teams at universities and colleges
Great work happens across your campuses.
Keep the grants connected.
Find the next funding opportunity, keep every commitment in view, and give your institution one place to move the work forward.
Grant management
Full grants management.
For your entire institution.
One campus or multiple campuses, manage your entire grants program in one place. Connect funding opportunities, proposals, awards, funders, documents, deadlines, and reporting—from the first prospect to the final report.
Track requested and awarded amounts by school and program, alongside the institution-wide total.
Automated reminders catch every report deadline before it's late.
Bring a current view of pending and awarded grants to any leadership meeting.
200,000+ funders & foundations
Explore 200,000+ funders and foundations, then connect your research with your institution's relationship history.
Funder Intelligence
Prospect across 200,000+
funders and foundations.
Find new funding prospects for scholarships, student success, research, and your institution's next big initiative. Search by subject area, geography, and funding interest, explore giving history, and turn promising matches into a focused cultivation plan.
Find funders already giving in your subject area and region.
Reconnect with funders who have supported your institution before.
Never start a grant from a blank page.
Institutional advancement, connected
Build a sustainable grants program for your institution.
Lyon College is centralizing grant activity across three schools, giving its advancement team a shared view of proposals, deadlines, and reporting requirements.
What I'm building at Lyon College is bigger than finding the next grant opportunity. I'm creating a sustainable grant infrastructure for the institution, and Grant Frog is a tool helping me build that foundation.
Customer story · Lyon College
Three schools. One connected grants program.
See how Mirranda and the institutional advancement team are building a consistent grant process across schools, reconnecting with past funders, and keeping leadership informed.
Read the Lyon College story ↗
Team collaboration
All your grant deadlines.
One connected team.
Across one or multiple campuses, bring grants staff, advancement, faculty, and program leads into the same process. See who owns the next step and keep the information they need close to the work.
Assign tasks and keep ownership visible as work moves between departments.
Deadline reminders reach the right person automatically, without another email from your grants office.
Give every grant writer across campuses the same starting point.
White-glove onboarding
We migrate your data, train your team, and have real people to support you on the way.
White-glove data migration.
Our team helps migrate your grants, funders, deadlines, and grant history. Bring your existing records and we'll help make them a useful starting point for your institution.
Onboarding for your team.
Get hands-on support organizing your portfolio by school and program, connecting collaborators, and establishing a shared institutional grant process.
Human support, ongoing.
Work with a responsive team as your grants program develops. Get help with questions, new collaborators, and the workflows your institution depends on.
Security review & flexible terms
Security at the core. Flexible terms that fit your institution.
Bring your IT, procurement, and advancement teams into the conversation. We'll help you work through what your institution needs to get started.
Industry-standard security.
Review our security practices with your IT team. HECVAT information is available on request to support your institution's vendor review.
Review security information ↗Custom terms available.
Talk with us about your institution's purchasing requirements. Annual billing and custom terms are available to support your procurement process.
Discuss your requirements ↗Answers for your whole institution
Frequently asked questions.
Explore the questions that matter to your team before you decide.
Managing grants across your institution
Can we manage grants across multiple schools and campuses?
Yes. Organize grant activity by school and program while keeping a shared view of your institution's portfolio. Teams can track proposals, awards, deadlines, and grant reports in one workspace.
Can we track requested and awarded funding amounts?
Yes. Keep requested and awarded amounts with your grant records and use reporting to review your funding pipeline. This helps advancement leadership see funding activity alongside the status of each grant.
Does Grant Frog track post-award reports and deadlines?
Yes. Manage grant reports and related tasks alongside application deadlines. Automated email reminders help the people involved stay aware of upcoming commitments.
Does it replace our finance system or research administration suite?
Grant Frog supports grant tracking, funder research, collaboration, and reporting deadlines. Line-item expenditure accounting is coming soon.
Can we report grant activity to the President and VP of Advancement?
Yes. Use grant overview reporting to review pipeline status and funding amounts, and give leadership a current picture of institutional grant activity.
Finding funders and working together
What does Funder Intelligence include?
Research more than 200,000 foundations using IRS 990-based information. Explore giving history and grant amounts, then narrow your research by geography and focus area. Funder Intelligence is included with Professional and higher plans.
Can we cultivate current and former funders as well as new prospects?
Yes. Use research alongside funder records, grant history, relationship notes, and cultivation tasks. Keep the context for a renewal or renewed conversation in the same place as your new prospects.
Can advancement, faculty, and program staff collaborate?
Yes. Connect colleagues to grants, reports, and tasks, with visible responsibilities and deadline reminders. We'll help you determine the user setup that fits your institution's workflow.
How many users can we include?
User seats depend on your plan. Essentials starts with one user, Professional with three, and Premium with six; additional users are available on Premium. Discuss your campus-wide needs with us and review the current pricing page. View pricing ↗
Can grant writers share institutional language and past proposal content?
Yes. The Content Library gives your team a common place for reusable narratives, institutional facts, and proposal content. Writers can build on approved language while tailoring each application to its school, program, and funder.
Getting started, security, and purchasing
Can you migrate data from spreadsheets or another system?
Yes. White-glove migration helps bring existing proposals, grant reports, funder information, and historical records into Grant Frog. We'll review your source data and agree on the migration scope with you.
How long does migration take?
The migration itself typically takes about 3 to 4 business days. The scope and readiness of your data can affect timing, so we'll confirm a schedule after reviewing your records.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. You can try Grant Frog for 14 days without a credit card. A demo is also available if you want to walk through your institution's process with our team first. Start a free trial ↗
How much does Grant Frog cost?
Pricing depends on your specific requirements. Most higher education institutions start at $399 per month, billed annually. Exact pricing depends on your team size and requirements — review current pricing or talk with us for a quote tailored to your institution. View pricing ↗
Can you support our IT security and vendor review?
Yes. Grant Frog follows industry-standard security practices and works with institutional IT teams on vendor assessments and data-handling documentation. HECVAT information is available on request. Review our security overview and share your requirements with us. Security overview ↗
Are custom terms available for our institution?
Yes. Talk with us about custom terms, annual billing, and your institution's procurement requirements. We'll work through the proposed arrangement with your purchasing team.
Who helps our team after onboarding?
You'll work with Grant Frog's small, dedicated support team. We provide help with questions and workflows as your institutional grants program develops.
What will we see in a higher education demo?
Bring your current grant process and the questions your team needs answered. We'll walk through funder prospecting, grant tracking, reporting, and collaboration, and discuss migration and purchasing requirements.
See it with your institution's grants program
Bring your grants, funders, and deadlines into one place.
See exactly what a connected grants program looks like for your institution.