A weekly email matching new federal and foundation grants to a small nonprofit's profile, priced $10-15/month.
“Market-tested” means a real shipped product or experiment measured the failure directly (a live user count, a dead auction, a documented shutdown). “Predicted” means the verdict is an evidence-based forecast from the receipts below, not a direct measurement.
Recurring 'how do I find grants for X' asks across nonprofit forums and Reddit over years — genuine, sustained information pain from micro-nonprofits without development staff.
The core sellable is given away by the source itself: Grants.gov offers free saved-search email notifications and a nightly digest of new opportunities. Above that floor, every price band is occupied — Grant Gopher has sold this exact product at $9/month for years and remains tiny (a measured ceiling, not a gap); GrantWatch owns $249/yr; Instrumentl owns the vertical-SEO top at $179+/mo; Zeffy publishes free grant databases as content marketing. Two recent identical entrants (GrantRadar, GrantSignal) showed no traction. The one layer people would genuinely pay for — curated foundation RFPs that never hit Grants.gov — is recurring human research labor, not software.
If Grants.gov discontinued free saved-search notifications, the floor under the federal-grant layer would lift. The foundation-grant layer would additionally require the curation labor to be genuinely automated — verify that claim hard before believing it.
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