One guide per applicant class, on how to read an eligibility section, calculate what a match would cost you, and lay out a timeline that fits your own calendar.
Three jobs a nonprofit has to do before writing anything: read the eligibility section properly, work out what a match would actually cost, and build a calendar backwards from the deadline.
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Ownership tests, the difference between a grant and a loan programme, and the one field that decides whether a small business can actually use an award it wins.
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Most grant programmes are closed to individuals by design. This is how to tell which ones are not, what a fiscal sponsor changes, and how to plan around a calendar you do not control.
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A city or county applying for federal money is usually applying to a state, under federal rules, on a timeline that starts long before the notice appears. What to read, and in what order.
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Tribal governments and tribally designated organisations face an eligibility landscape nobody else does: dedicated set-asides, a recognition test that is binary, and listing vocabularies that flatten the distinctions.
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Research funding runs on rules that are invisible in a listing: who may hold an award, what an indirect cost rate is applied to, and how long the gap between submission and money actually is.
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School districts and individual teachers face different eligibility rules, a spending restriction that catches whole budgets, and a funding calendar that does not line up with a school year.
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Health funding turns on designations rather than descriptions, arrives more often as a cooperative agreement than a grant, and asks a question about year four that most applicants answer badly.
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