Consulting and education company, Grant Writing Made Easy, offers full-service grant writing for nonprofits, government agencies, and research organizations across the country, replaced a time-consuming, imprecise grant discovery process with GrantExec, a Euna Solutions® company significantly cutting search time and surfacing high-quality opportunities their team would not have found otherwise.
The Challenge
- Despite targeted searches, queries returned hundreds of irrelevant results, with roughly 66% of opportunities failing eligibility criteria
- Manually weeding through results consumed 10–12 hours per client grant search
- Time lost to low-quality results meant less capacity for deep evaluation of strong opportunities
“We were getting hundreds of grant results when we were doing the most niched-down profiles as possible. And we were still getting like out of 300 results, 200 things that we didn’t even meet the basic eligibility for. We were spending at least 10 to 12 hours for every client grant search just weeding through all of that chaff.”
— Dr. Krista Kurlinkus, Founder & CEO, Grant Writing Made Easy
The Solution
- GrantExec’s AI-powered matching surfaced only the most relevant opportunities, reducing the volume of irrelevant results and the time spent filtering them.
- A responsive support team actively collected feedback to continuously improve result quality
- Saved opportunities and analysis exported directly to CSV, keeping all research and notes in one portable workflow
“The GrantExec team are very responsive. For example, they will reach when we flagged something as not a good fit and ask why so they can adjust it for next time. So, there’s real human expertise behind the technology and the support doesn’t stop once you’re onboarded. The team is amazing.”
— Dr. Krista Kurlinkus, Founder & CEO, Grant Writing Made Easy
Results
- Irrelevant results dropped from approximately 66% to 5%
- Grant search time reduced significantly (from hours to minutes), freeing capacity for deeper opportunity evaluation
- Surfaced high-quality opportunities the team would not have found through previous methods
“Out of 100 results from GrantExec, maybe 5% don’t fit — compared to 66% before. And even then, I can see why the system flagged it. It’s in the right ecosystem, the right location, just not an exact match for what we do. GrantExec doesn’t just save us time, it gives us confidence that the opportunities we’re pursuing are worth it. When you trust what the system is giving you, you can actually focus on winning.”
— Dr. Stephanie Weaver, Grant Strategist & Educator, Grant Writing Made Easy