OpenGrants Customer Stories & Insights

Open grants has helped me find grants for my clients. The best thing is I'm able to get grants for my clients in every genre.

Mr. David Curious Innovators of America. I am just starting the process of getting grants for our non-profit. The ease of locating and filing the request is easy.

I am Birara Melku Ayenew, a biotechnology laboratory chief technician at Bahir Dar University. Since OpenGrants is a platform that assists individuals, organizations, and businesses in finding, applying for, and managing grants efficiently, it helped me to find grants.

This was extremely helpful. It's been nearly impossible to find a grant that could work for a major entertainment institution.

I am the Pastor at Church of the Cross in Modesto. We are in a re-plant season for the church and are working to reach out to support and love our community through innovative efforts such as our community garden and other efforts. OpenGrants was incredibly responsive, friendly, and quick to provide relevant opportunities for grants for my organization.

I work at a small non-profit R&D Lab and Open Grants was an absolute LIFESAVER during a recent grant pursuit. Long story short, we decided to pursue a federal grant for the first time (at the final hour of submission) and we were completely out of our element. The Open Grants team graciously offered us a quick & effective crash course in the labyrinth that is applying for a federal grant and did so in a way that was incredibly accessible to us as first timers. I genuinely don't think we would have been able to make the deadline in time without Open Grants' support! We highly recommend the expertise of Sedale and the team, and we are so thankful for their support!

Working with Sedale and team has been a great experience! Given our mutual goals in helping businesses with their financial standing, partnering up was a no brainer. Off the bat we were able to help a local business save over $50k in taxes! I am excited for the future and what we can accomplish together!

I’m working on democratizing innovation by supporting founders regardless of location. OpenGrants has helped our founders and their adjacent innovation ecosystems source and secure public funding seamlessly. The best thing about OpenGrants is their easy to use interface and their deep bench of technical experts and partners. OpenGrants rules!

I think any tool that helps people find and obtain grants is valuable. OpenGrants has a user-friendly platform that makes it much easier and I endorse what they are doing.

I am Paul Kapsar APRN - Nurse practitioner - in the past I searched for grants for various programs both not for profit and academic. It is always a challenge to search multiple databases and government sites. I am now moving back into an academic setting and looking for grants to deal with substance use disorder (SUD) and am finding options that do not show up an any other platforms. I have not yet applied for any grants as yet but finding options in seconds instead of hours is a huge bonus.

I serve as a CEO or as strategy and finance executive leadership, particularly when transaction(s) are key or a new venture does not yet fit into existing enterprise structures including talent integration, repositioning and outplacement, particularly in complex matrixed environments. OpenGrants identifies funding opportunities that may not be obvious. As an executive who has written grants, I don’t always have the time or want to burn capital on searches. I’ve found the search features easy to use and results to be high quality. The best attribute is the simple, aesthetic user experience. There’s little noise on the homepage- direct, clear and effective. I’d be really excited for early-stage support. The sluggish seed is a heavy lift and expedited supported systems raise chances for survival.

I wish OpenGrants was available when I was a nonprofit Executive Director several years ago! The platform streamlines access to social capital and funding opportunities that 501c3's in any sector can easily access. As I work now with purpose driven clients, B Corps and foundations, I highly recommend placing funding opportunities with OpenGrants to remove barriers often faced by the CBOs doing such important and valuable work in our communities.

OpenGrants is empowering to those who seek to understand and connect regarding funding possibilities to make their dreams into reality.

Clutch is a growing management consulting firm focused on offering services to growing or rapidly changing public and private organizations. OpenGrants has opened the world of possibility for funding to projects and clients, alike. OpenGrants is a user-friendly interface that connects you to time-saving resources!

Sedale, CEO and co-founder of OpenGrants, was a founding member of my climate tech community. I knew that helping our climate founders win grants would be essential to moving the space forward, and Sedale was the perfect person to be helpful here. He is an exceptionally giving founder, deep in the grants space, and building something that provides high leverage for the rest of the climate and social impact private sector. OpenGrants is a stellar product with a stellar team, and I am so thankful for all the help they've provided me personally as well as the founders in our larger climate ecosystem.

My job is focused on climate action at scale - ensuring that every elected official in America has a climate plan on day one. OpenGrants is critical to achieving that scale - making the maze of government funding easy to access for leaders at cities, states and counties across the United States.

OpenGrants makes funding more equitable and accessible by offerig a free and open plaform that anyone can use to find grants. It's a great tool for nonprofits, studens and researchers who need fnding. It's also an invaluable resource for funders who ant to make their resoures available to as many people as possible (especially the high impact ones who may not be privy to the inner workings of the system we have today)

I always find working with Sedale and his knowledge of the space really fascinating. We have used a lot of grant funding at Hullbot, and OpenGrants has a really great tool that delivers a lot of value to companies like ours.

OpenGrants has provided an exceptional portal for access to experts to better more efficiently engage with government opportunities.

Thank you Open Grant for helping our non-profit organization get the necessary information, education, and resources in grant world. Most of your services are free of charge and very useful to get knowledge in finding, applying, managing, and executing grants. I believe your service is very needed and impacts different organizations and non-profit sectors.

I met Sedale up in Chico. He shared Open Grants with me and I loved it I have shared Open Grants with my entire Tribe. Many have already replied...they are STOKED!!!! Well done Sedale...GO BIG!!!!

I am a grant writer for a large nonprofit agency serving people coming out of incarceration. I just discovered Open Grants recently, and it's been a valuable source of information about prospective grant opportunities. Very user friendly and easy to navigate. Thank you for creating such a great resource for grant seekers. I wiil certainly share it with others!

Open Grants has a braod range of topics and areas of training/service for grant funding. The trainings are informative and add value to my grant writing skills.

I am the CEO of Sunexis, Inc. We are developing the first safe, effective, environmentally-friendly sunscreen. OpenGrants helped me learn about equity crowdfunding which we are pursuing. OpenGrants provides free weinars that are of great service to the community.

OpenGrants has been a superb pipeline of information and resources for my service oriented startup. The knowledge, seminars and searches have been instrumental.

I am the Managing Partner of Globivest a VC fund. We are early supporters of OpenGrants as we believe they are revolutionizing and democratizing access to Grants. OpenGrants, with their highly developed search engine powered by the most comprehensive database of public and private grant funding bring together organizations and individuals in order to unblock access to funding.

As a business owner and someone who leverages OpenGrants for our clients as well as refers clients to the platform, we have tremendous success with projects! I highly recommend OpenGrants.

We're changing the look and feel of personal finance to help people manage the number one cause of stress in America - financial anxiety. To truly understand the breadth and depth of the problem we're facing, we're working with the best academic minds to measure financial mindfulness. We look to Open Grants as a partner in the effort to build a robust research arm to study financial well-being. Open Grants has been a pivotal partner in our effort to incubate and grow Aura Labs. They have pointed us to alternative revenue sources and grant writers who share our mission and our values and are eager to help us succeed.

Hi I'm D. Scott Pierce, CEO of PINION. We are a new platform transforming civic engagement by allowing you to easily find and vote on the same legislation that your elected officials are voting on, at the local, state and national levels. We connect public opinion to public policy. OpenGrants has been an eye opener for PINION to quickly understand the opportunities and find potential matches for us in the grant making space. Given that our mission is to transform civic engagement, we have been able to find many organizations that have improving civic engagement as part of their mission or grant criteria. This would not have been feasible without OpenGrants.

Fedsprout supports small business get federal research and development grants through proposal writing. Open Grants has helped Fedsprout identify and connect with small businesses that need help. Development of advanced technologies by small businesses is critical for economic growth and for the U.S. to stay technologically competitve in the world. OpenGrants provides a simple and foused interface that allows companies to easily find grant writers.

OpenGrants has been a great partner to us as a firm and a useful source of information and assistance to our portfolio companies as they look to secure non-dilutive funding. OpenGrants makes the process so much easier from identifying relevant opportunities to crafting the best applications and then closing them.

I am a Grant Consultant of 10 years and have found OpenGrants to be the first resource I use to find funding. It saves me a lot of time indexing terms to find grants that could help me. I’ve used OpenGrants for 2 projects and it saves me a lot of time navigating through federal websites. I’ve referred this program to many others (other grant consultants and clients) to assist in their work. This is the best, and easiest grant search engine.

I am the co-founder and CEO of Rehive, a white-label fintech app builder. We have been working with Sedale and the team since June 2022. A key focus has been to investigate how we can work together to enhance the grant payout experience through a custom branded fintech application. In general we have learned a lot from Opengrants as thought leaders in the space. Opengrants is very knowledgeable in the grant space. It is refreshing to work with a team that has both the passion and know-how to solving an important problem in society: making sure funds go where it is most needed!

I am an active investor and I work with a number of founders and tech/vc ecosystem builders. Given that not all capital needs to be dilutive or venture, its important to provide founders with a multitude of options. Given what OpenGrants has built I always suggest founders lean into using the platform and engage with the community to see if there is a good fit.

We run a nonprofit organization with a volunteer network of 550+ EPA alumni across the country. We provide pro bono technical assistance to disadvantaged communities, NGOs, and under-resourced government agencies. OpenGrants has helped us to connect with folks who are interested in understanding EPA's grant programs better. They connected us to an entity recently who was able to secure a grant in part because of our advice!

Sedale, Cody, and the entire OpenGrants team are extremely knowledgeable in their work and provide excellent support to their customers. As investors in this space, we often recommend this platform to grant-seeking and grant-making folks.

AWS GovTechStart, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) government technology (GovTech) startup accelerator, is designed to help eligible U.S. startup companies build the next generation of technology solutions for state and local government agencies using the AWS Cloud. as an AWS GovTechStart Member, OpenGrants has been a thought leader sharing insights about grant funding that GovTech startup founders can leverage to provide their solutions to government agencies.The OpenGrants leaders are knowledgeable and passionate about connecting innovators with the financial resources needed to benefit communities.

The best thing about Sedale and the OpenGrants team is getting businesses nondilutive capital. This is very beneficial to help companies at different stages as they scale. In my role of connecting businesses and different resources for success for Choose Folsom, having the expertise that OpenGrants has is a great benefit for the companies in our region. The amount of time saved and money attained - especially versus trying to figure it out on you own isn't comparable.

I'm the CEO of Pioneer, at pioneerclimate.com, and we help climate tech companies interface with government funding. OpenGrants search and API has allowed us find and present better opportunities to our customers, driving the impact they have on our climate. We love working with OpenGrants team as their deep understanding of how grants work helps us and our customers follow the best practices from day one.

OpenGrants opened new paths for us. We had looked into grants before, only to come out discouraged. We now know where to focus and how to get the expert help we need. In particular, I am very grateful for OpenGrants' CEO having a 1-to-1 conversation with us, to understand our startup better and give us proper guidance. Besides his knowledge of the grants universe, I was impressed by how much he cared: we got 30 minutes of expert consultation, oriented to our situation. No pressure, no pushy sales pitch: just facts and suggestions. It was very valuable. Lakebolt Research has built a computing environment specifically designed for teaching programming and computer science concepts in K-12 and college.

OpenGrants has transformed the way that companies we work with and support access funding. Providing support and resources to these early-stage companies on the cutting edge of innovation has become infinitely easier with OpenGrants.

It's a critical time for the US to create a dynamic, inclusive, diverse market to bring the best talent together with government funding that's designed for competitive advantage. OpenGrants brings a mission-critical platform with associated expertise to link programmatic capacity, technical expertise, and regional economic growth engines together with the sources of grants and funding that will have much more impact, much faster. Extremely helpful to our regional economic, tech, skills, and corporate ecosystem.

Hello my name is Taj Eldridge and I am a venture capitalist with Include Ventures. Previously I was senior director of investments at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) where I first interacted with OpenGrants. Sedale and his team helped me by working with my founders and having them unlock different pools of capital to move their business forward, I believe the best thing about opengrants is the ease of use and the positive outcomes that occur when utilized.

We are a non profit organization that needs funding to transition our services to impact a larger audience. We were able to post information about our organization on OpenGrants platform and multiple grant writers responded-providing their background and experience. The OpenGrants' concept is definitely an innovative way for organizations like mine to locate and gain support in acquiring funding for the hard work we do for the youth in our nation.

Navigating the very confusing and overwhelming world of government grants is time consuming and frustrating. OpenGrants has provided a great deal of information to help ease this process. I have enjoyed their webinars and hope they continue to share this valuable information.

I am a minority woman of a startup business that’s geared towards helping underemployed neurodiverse individuals searching for careers or jobs that would match their interests and talents. I’m currently working on, 1. getting approval as a bill payer vendor for a non-profit agency. 2. Designing a product, or an equipment to save water. OpenGrants has helped me understand the terminology of grants and different types of grants that are available, and how to get help finding the right grants and grant writers. The best thing about OpenGrants is the rich resources and connections they bring to their members.

Non-Dilutive Funding is critical for anyone working in climate. Opengrants fills an awesome gap in the infrastructure for finding that funding. Additionally, the Opengrants team goes above and beyond to support players on every side of the eco-system.

My company focuses on consumer advocacy in real estate, which is a perfect match for a lot of grants. We need a small amount of funding to further our development and have used opengrants to find opportunities. Opengrants really helps put everything in one place. Being a small, self funded company, I do feel a bit lost when it comes to writing for grants and would love to find some help that I could afford to complete, or at least, advice on this task.

OpenGrants has been great to us in helping navigate the Government Grants ecosystem.

OpenGrants makes searching for funding a breeze. It is simple and intuitive and we plan to keep using OpenGrants in the future as a vital tool to source grants.

I am a nurse practitioner doing primary care and substance use care looking to expand scope and volume for my private practice. I have just begun using OpenGrants and found the number of possible grants much higher than If I was doing it "the old way"

Our mission is to make landfilling waste obsolete. Using our proprietary technology, we process landfill waste mixed with sewer water to produce electricity with NO odor, NO waste, and NO stack emissions. OpenGrants has helped us to identify grant opportunities that could help us finance our pilot scale phase. The best thing about OpenGrants is access to government, non government, and corporate (funds) grants in one easy search interface.

Helping our existing accelerator and hubs members access grants, grant writing support, and grant process to help fund operations/program, as well as helping their founders access non-dilutive funding opportunities. You offer an amazing perk and service to our community through GAN Insight! Helping our members and their founders navigate grants, and taking the headache out of the process!

We are working on how to receive grans/funding and contract to grow and sale my business. OPEN/GRANTS has provided some information on grants. It is a very informative platform.

Symbium is a free property information portal that allows the public to understand and visualize what's possible on a property to streamline much-needed housing. OpenGrants is a much-needed platform in the grant space to help lift small organizations that are in very high need of financial support to, in turn, spur impacts in areas such as housing, energy, DEI, the environment, and more. As a startup in the housing space, we have really utilized OpenGrants to identify opportunities where our technology will make the greatest impact and where we can scale up to serve the greatest population. We have also used it to identify grant writing professionals and advisors (of which Sedale and his team are second-to-none) to make our greatest impact.

I am a Grant Writer and have found that Open Grants gets updated information to me faster than every other site I am subscribed to. The importance of this is that I can properly go through and decide which clients would benefit and map out my strategy for applying rather than "finding" the grant in a search at the last minute. The timeliness of their notifications is of the utmost importance in my business and I and my clients have benfitted greatly.

As a grant writer with a master and doctoral degree in engineering sciences, my goal is to help organizations get funded on topics related to STEM education and technology. I specialize in finding research and grant writing related to Data Science, Industry 4.0 and Cyber-Physical Systems applied to Agriculture and solar cell manufacturing. OpenGrants helps provide a pool of potential customers that are willing to work remotely and whom we have the trust to do business through its platform.

I have seen the impact OpenGrants has made in our entrepreneurial ecosystem by providing an accessible way for early-stage startups to access capital. The OpenGrants platform has been vital to making innovation and entrepreneurship accessible and approachable in the Sacramento region and beyond. This is why we have shared OpenGrants as a resource as it is directly in line with our mission. We look forward to seeing the many entrepreneurial successes that come from this accessibility.

The OpenGrants team is super helpful and great to work with! Very useful platform

Opengrants has truly revolutionized the opaque world of government grant funding. There is so capital on offer for those who know where to look - Sedale and his team have made the process incredibly straightforward. For startups in my network looking for non dilutive sources of funding, I send them the way of Opengrants.

Working with OpenGrants has been great! High quality data and info and hands-on support for founders navigating the grant landscape - thank you for being a great and much needed piece of the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Open Grants has been a pleasure to work with as they work towards democratizing the grant search and grant capture strategy. The team is very accessible and have been very open and willing to assist with the many questions I've had since starting to work on the platform.

I got to meet and work with Sedale in the context of applying to various grants for We Grow Green Tech and the green tech/climate tech we partner with. Very quickly, I became impressed by how much dedication and care he shows in helping people navigating such a daunting process We worked together for RainIons and were successfully able to apply within an exceptional time frame. Very grateful for the opportunity to work together and take advantage of OpenGrants platform Bravo Sedale !

We just recently found Open Grants and are grateful for it because it is extremely competitive out here for small businesses to find grants they qualify for. So the volume of information provided by Open Grants in appreciated.

having a searchless grant discovery platform makes the process efficient for all parties involved. On top of this, OpenGrants incorporates an expert marketplace that can help applicants with their applications, which is really innovative.

OpenGrants made it easier for me to understand how the grant system works, showed useful tools and made the thought of applying less intimidating. We will apply!

OpenGrants is an amazing company that makes grant-seeking much easier and more impactful

OpenGrants is an exceptionally useful platform that helps a lot of small companies that otherwise wouldn't be able to find funding applicable to them. More support like OpenGrants (or from OpenGrants) is always welcomed!

Just the fact that you have a service like this makes it enjoyable!

I’m am in the process of starting up my sole trading company. I now have an idea/introduction how to do a Pitch if I need a Grant.

Open grants has given me another perspective about grants and since then I have grants as other source of finance to my projects/companies.

Am a co founder of prisha charity foundation Uganda At a moment it has not helped me yet but am having hope that any time we shall get help It helps foundations and NGO's to get funds for their organizations and we appreciate for their great work.

..as an innovator hoping to use NTIA’s BEAD broadband grant $$$ that is coming to our State, We look to open grants and their unique source of knowledge and prior history. And as Washington DC & also our State does not have a stellar record supporting smaller innovators versus large corporates etc.. We’re hopeful OpenGrants can help us create some needed “degrees of freedom” to allow other existing federal grant $$$ that have always shown long term support of such innovations to create new partnerships! The question is, how do you bring different grant monies together to support such hybrid investment use? Is there a business structure solution? ..or is this done through a solid partnership agreement? Would love to connect w/opengrants platform tool & people!