Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Granted AI | Goodstack |
|---|---|---|
| Company focus | Grant seekers: find, write, track, and win grants | Corporate CSR: verification, employee giving, donations ($17M revenue) |
| Pricing | Free tier → $18/mo → $57/mo (transparent, self-serve) | Free for nonprofits (subsidized by enterprise revenue) |
| Grant discovery | 85K+ grants, 14 verified sources, 6+ LLM providers, URL verification | Maia AI chat: ~5 results from unspecified databases |
| Grant writing | 7-stage deterministic pipeline: ingest → research → synthesize → strategize → write → review → export | Maia chat: outline, draft, refine in conversational UI |
| Pipeline management | Kanban board + table + calendar + tasks + awards, drag-and-drop, projects | “Manage applications” (new, limited details available) |
| Portfolio analytics | Win rate trends, pipeline velocity, funder concentration risk, board reports | Program performance insights |
| Post-award | Impact reporting, compliance deadlines, outcomes tracking, AI narratives | Not available |
| Team collaboration | 4-role RBAC, inline comments, task assignments, activity feed, workload view | Multi-user with owner/member roles |
| Peer prospecting | 990-driven: find funders who gave to orgs like yours | Not available |
| Funding radar | Monitor sources on schedules with digest emails | Not available |
| Federal grants | SAM.gov, Grants.gov, NIH, NSF, SBIR, Challenge.gov, state portals | No mention of federal grant sources |
| Nonprofit database | 133K foundations + 200K nonprofits from IRS 990 | 13.5M verified nonprofits (verification infrastructure) |
| Software discounts | Not available | Free/discounted Zoom, OpenAI, Adobe, Asana, Atlassian |
| Donation tools | Not available (not our business) | $5B+ donations processed, 135+ currencies, tax receipting |
| Industry recognition | Growing in grant writing space | Zero grant tool roundups include Goodstack |
Bottom Line
Purpose-built grant platform vs. CSR suite with grant tools
Goodstack is a corporate CSR platform that added grant tools as a free perk for their nonprofit network. Granted is a purpose-built grant management platform where discovery, writing, tracking, and reporting are the entire product — not an afterthought. If you want software discounts and donation tools, Goodstack is great. If you want to find, write, and win grants, that's what we do.
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