Velora Grant Management vs.
Instrumentl

Your next grant, planned and submitted on time, with your whole team

Velora Grant Management brings nonprofit grant discovery, AI drafting, tasks, deadlines, and post-award tracking into one smart, shared workspace for $89 a month, with unlimited users. Bring your teammates in and head into every deadline with a clear plan. Search nearly 300,000 grants, refreshed daily. Browse the free grants directory.

14-day free trial with full access. No sales call required. Cancel anytime.

Velora Grant Management dashboard with awards, pipeline, win rate and pipeline forecast

One plan, everything included

Grant Discovery, Pipeline, Applications, Programs, Analytics, Tasks & Calendar, all for $89/month.

Room for the whole team

Unlimited users at $89 a month on every account, from grant writers to finance to your executive director.

A clear plan from every RFP

AI turns funder guidelines into requirements, tasks, and first drafts that your team reviews and owns.

Built by Velora, the team behind Aplos, Keela, and Raisely. Trusted by 15,000+ nonprofits.

Tenant-isolated data, so your organization’s information stays in its own private space

Your data is never used to train AI models

You stay in control: your team reviews every AI output

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Simple, generous pricing

Bring everyone in for $89/month

Great grant work is a team effort. Program leads share outcomes, finance checks the budget, and your ED wants a quick look at what’s due. With Velora Grant Management, every one of them gets a seat, and every feature comes in the same plan.

Instrumentl offers four plans, from Discover at $299/month (billed annually) with up to 3 users, to Full Lifecycle at $999/month with up to 15 users.

Velora Grant Management keeps it to one simple price, so your team can grow as freely as your grants program.

Unlimited users on one account, with Owner, Admin, Editor, and Viewer roles
Discovery, AI drafting, tasks, calendar, programs, and analytics all included
Month-to-month billing, with a full data export available on request

From RFP to submitted

You found a promising grant. Now what?

Upload the funder’s guidelines and Velora Grant Management's AI pulls out key details like deadlines, eligibility, required sections, and response limits. Your team checks them, turns them into tasks with owners and due dates, and drafts each section right next to the grant. Everyone knows what’s next, and the shared calendar keeps every date in plain view.

AI requirement extraction that your team reviews and edits
Tasks, owners, comments, and milestones beside your drafts
One shared calendar for application, task, and reporting dates
Velora Grant Management Upload RFP dialog extracting required sections from funder guidelines
Velora Grant Management vs
Instrumentl

Side by side: Velora Grant Management and Instrumentl

Both tools help nonprofits find and manage grants. Here’s how the plans and features line up.

Pricing model
Velora Grant Management

One plan with every feature

Instrumentl

Four plans: Discover, Pre-Award, Full Lifecycle, Enterprise

Starting price
Velora Grant Management

$89/month

Instrumentl

$299/month billed annually, or $349 billed monthly (Discover)

Price with AI drafting and team collaboration
Velora Grant Management

$89/month

Instrumentl

$499/month billed annually, or $579 billed monthly (Pre-Award)

Price with post-award tracking
Velora Grant Management

$89/month

Instrumentl

$999/month billed annually, or $1,159 billed monthly (Full Lifecycle)

Users
Velora Grant Management

Unlimited

Instrumentl

Up to 3, 5, or 15 users by plan; custom on Enterprise

Free trial
Velora Grant Management

14 days with full platform access, including AI drafting

Instrumentl

14 days on any plan, no credit card required. Apply (AI drafting) is not included in trial accounts by default

Grant discovery
Velora Grant Management

Discover with keyword search, eligibility filters, and an AI Match Score

Instrumentl

AI-matched opportunities (beta), 37,000+ active RFPs, and 450,000+ funder profiles

Requirements to tasks
Velora Grant Management

AI extracts requirements from RFPs; your team turns them into tasks, owners, and due dates

Instrumentl

Pipeline tracking and task management on all plans; Award Assistant extracts deadlines and requirements from award letters (Pre-Award and up)

AI drafting
Velora Grant Management

Draft Generator with Expand and Strengthen tools, included

Instrumentl

Apply, using AI and your past content (Pre-Award and up)

Calendar and deadlines
Velora Grant Management

Shared calendar for application, task, and reporting dates, included

Instrumentl

Calendar integration with Google and Outlook (Pre-Award and up)

Post-award tracking
Velora Grant Management

Programs: budgets, payment schedules, spending, and remaining balance, included

Instrumentl

Spenddown, planned expenses, accounting integrations, budget vs. actuals reports, and over/under alerts (Full Lifecycle and up)

Integrations
Velora Grant Management

Standalone workspace today

Instrumentl

CRM integrations (Pre-Award and up); accounting integrations, SSO, and API access (Full Lifecycle and up)

Why grant teams love Velora Grant Management

Everything your team needs to go from “we found a grant” to “we submitted,” and on to award day.

1

Find grants that fit

Search nearly 300,000 grants, refreshed daily. Filter by eligibility, check the AI Match Score, and add your favorite finds to the Pipeline in one click. Browse the free grants directory

2

Draft with a head start

The Draft Generator writes first passes from your organization’s context. Expand and Strengthen help you polish, and your team keeps the final word.

3

A pipeline everyone can see

List and Kanban views show every grant from Discovery to Awarded, so the whole team moves forward together.

4

Care after the award

Programs tracks budgets, payment schedules, spending, and remaining balance once the funding arrives.

5

Reports leaders enjoy

The Dashboard and Analytics show awards, pipeline forecasts, and win rates, with PDF reports ready to share with your board.

6

AI you can trust

Your data is never used to train AI models, and each organization’s data is kept separate. Your team reviews every AI output.

Switching from
Instrumentl

Moving over is easy

You can start today, no sales call needed. Create your workspace, invite your team, and add the grants you’re working on now. During your 14-day trial, run one live opportunity all the way through Velora Grant Management: save it, extract the requirements, assign tasks, and draft a section. In-product guides, help docs, and our support chatbot are right there with you. Love your current discovery source? Keep it, and use Velora Grant Management to run your pipeline, plans, drafts, and deadlines.

Velora Grant Management Upload RFP dialog extracting required sections from funder guidelines
Self-serve setup with friendly in-product guides
Invite every teammate on day one at no extra cost
Upload past applications and documents to your Knowledge Base for richer drafts

Your questions, answered

Can I switch from Instrumentl?

Yes. Start a 14-day free trial, invite your team, and add the grants you’re working on now to your Pipeline. Velora Grant Management will help turn them into requirements, tasks, and first drafts. If you’d like to keep using another discovery source, that works too: Velora Grant Management can run your pipeline, tasks, drafts, and deadlines either way.

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How does pricing compare with Instrumentl?

Velora Grant Management is $89 per month (USD) for the full platform, with unlimited users. Billing is month-to-month. Instrumentl’s public plans are Discover at $299/month billed annually ($349 monthly) for up to 3 users, Pre-Award at $499/month ($579 monthly) for up to 5 users, Full Lifecycle at $999/month ($1,159 monthly) for up to 15 users, and custom Enterprise pricing.

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What’s included in the free trial?

Your 14-day trial includes full access to the paid plan: Discover, Pipeline, Applications, Programs, Analytics, Tasks, Calendar, user permissions, and AI drafting. Invite as many teammates as you like and try Velora Grant Management on a real grant.

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Does Velora Grant Management help me find grants?

Yes, happily! Search nearly 300,000 grants, refreshed daily, in our free grants directory. Inside Velora Grant Management, Discover lets you search with keywords and eligibility filters, see an AI Match Score for each grant, and save your best fits to the Pipeline. We always recommend checking each funder’s site to confirm fit and deadlines before you apply.

Browse the free grants directory

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Will the AI write my applications for me?

Velora Grant Management's AI gives you a strong first draft based on your organization’s context and the funder’s questions, and the Expand and Strengthen tools help you refine it. Your team reviews, edits, and approves every word, then submits through the funder’s own process. Velora Grant Management does not submit applications for you.

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Is my data safe with Velora Grant Management's AI?

Customer data is never sent to AI models for training, and Velora Grant Management is designed so each organization’s data stays separate. You can request a full export of your data. For other security needs, contact us and we are happy to help.

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Does Velora Grant Management handle post-award work?

Yes. When a grant moves to Awarded, Programs helps you track the budget, start and end dates, payment schedule, reporting schedule, spending, and remaining balance. Velora Grant Management keeps this visible for your team; it does not replace your accounting system or finance review.

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Is Velora Grant Management a good Instrumentl alternative?

It depends on where your work gets stuck, and both tools shine at something. If your main need is finding well-matched funders, Instrumentl and Velora Grant Management both have deep discovery database. If you already find grants and want a happier path to finished applications, Velora Grant Management is built for exactly that part of the process, at $89 a month with unlimited users for everyone in your organization.

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Try it on a real grant

Start your 14-day free trial and bring your whole team into one bright, organized grants workspace for $89 a month.