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Services & Pricing

Choose the support you need.

Get a reviewed funding brief online, receive ongoing opportunity intelligence, or work with us on a more complex funding operation. Standard research services require no meetings. Advisory packages and custom projects include scheduled support as defined in your scope.

Published prices are starting prices for defined packages. For grant services, we do not charge a percentage of an award or a fee contingent on winning funding.

Automated · Free entry

Funding Fit Check

Free

Get automated preliminary guidance about the funding and revenue pathways that may fit your organization.

  • Guided online questions
  • Potential pathways and readiness questions
  • A practical next step
Automated guidance. No consultant review or call included.
Take the Fit Check

Funding Strategy & Opportunity Research

Start with a defined funding goal. Receive a clear view of relevant pathways, promising opportunities where available, and what to do next.

Human-Reviewed · Standard

Funding Strategy & Opportunity Brief

From $750 · one-time

A focused, human-reviewed funding brief for one organization and one defined project. Complete the intake online and receive your findings without scheduling a meeting.

  • Prioritized review of up to three relevant pathways
  • Up to three selected opportunity candidates, where suitable current options exist
  • Source links, key requirements, deadlines, and questions still to resolve
  • A concise next-step plan and opportunity tracker
  • One round of written clarification about the delivered findings
Online delivery. Human-reviewed findings. No meetings included.
Start a Funding Brief
Human-Reviewed · Enhanced

Funding Strategy Assessment

From $1,500 · one-time

A deeper assessment for organizations that need more context, research, and a sequenced funding plan, delivered through a structured online process.

  • More detailed readiness and pathway analysis within an agreed scope
  • Up to five selected opportunities, where relevant options exist
  • Pursue, monitor, or skip recommendations with supporting rationale
  • A written 90-day action plan
  • Two rounds of written clarification about the findings
Deeper analysis. Asynchronous delivery. No meetings included.
Request an Enhanced Assessment

Managed Funding Intelligence

Keep your funding decisions organized with ongoing research, reviewed recommendations, and a maintained opportunity pipeline.

Human-Reviewed · Standard

Managed Funding Intelligence

From $750/month

A recurring, human-reviewed opportunity digest and tracker for one organization and a clearly defined funding objective.

  • Scheduled monitoring of an agreed source set
  • One monthly reviewed digest and tracker update
  • Up to three newly recommended candidates per monthly digest, when relevant
  • Key deadlines, changes, and pursue, monitor, or skip recommendations
  • One round of written clarification per monthly delivery
Online onboarding and delivery. No meetings included.
Start Managed Intelligence
Advisory · Premium

Funding Intelligence & Advisory

From $2,500/month

Ongoing intelligence plus scheduled strategic guidance for organizations making more complex funding decisions.

  • Broader, agreed research scope and a reviewed opportunity pipeline
  • One monthly intelligence digest and action priorities
  • One 30-minute strategy meeting per month
  • Up to two written clarification rounds per month within the agreed scope
  • Guidance on readiness, sequencing, and pursuit decisions
Includes one scheduled monthly strategy session. Applications and operational execution are separately scoped.
Request Advisory Support

Funding & Grants Operations

Already managing funding? Improve the workflows, reporting, tools, and handoffs behind it.

Advisory · Premium entry

Grants Operations Assessment

From $2,500 · one-time

A focused review of an existing grants operation, combining document review and a workflow discussion with a practical improvement roadmap.

  • Structured intake and review of an agreed set of workflows and documents
  • One 60-minute discovery or workflow-review session
  • Prioritized process, system, and automation recommendations
  • One 30-minute findings session
Includes two scoped sessions. Implementation is quoted separately.
Request an Operations Assessment
Custom Project

Implementation & Fractional Support

Custom quote

Put an agreed roadmap into practice through scoped workflow improvements, systems work, automation, or ongoing grants-operations support.

  • Intake, due diligence, approvals, and award workflows
  • Compliance tracking, reporting, and post-award processes
  • SOPs, role clarity, and institutional knowledge
  • Grants-system improvements and practical automation
Deliverables, meeting access, responsibilities, and support periods are defined in your project or retainer scope.
Request a Project Review

Selected additional support

Available for selected applications and bids, scoped individually after review.

Custom Project · Individually scoped

Grant & Bid Pursuit Support

From $3,000

Support for a selected application or bid, with a clear workback plan, assigned responsibilities, and submission-readiness review.

  • Requirements checklist and document coordination
  • Drafting, budget coordination, or review as agreed
  • Defined revision rounds and approval checkpoints
  • A scoped kickoff and final decision session where included
Scoped after a fit review. No award or contract is guaranteed; you retain submission authority unless otherwise agreed.
Request Pursuit Support
Honesty Clause

If the fit is weak, we will tell you.

The right next step may be improving readiness, exploring a different revenue pathway, or using a free resource. A reviewed assessment can be useful even when there is no suitable current opportunity to pursue.

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Experience Behind the Practice

Funding expertise built from the inside.

Plum St. Consulting's funding practice is led by a grants and operations professional with more than a decade of experience across philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, and academic research. That background includes administering complex funding portfolios, coordinating sponsored research, strengthening compliance processes, and improving the systems teams use every day.

This background reflects individual professional experience gained before and alongside the development of Plum St. Consulting. It is not a list of Plum St. Consulting clients or company results.

  • ✓Grants administration, due diligence, approvals, and award execution
  • ✓Research administration, budgets, subawards, and reporting coordination
  • ✓Grants-management systems, workflow improvement, and data migration
  • ✓Practical automation for repetitive administrative work