I want to share a number with you: $103,211.
That’s the average annual cost of a full-time grant writer (salary plus benefits). It’s a big number. But here’s the one that should keep you up at night: $0. That’s what you bring in when you don’t have a grant strategy at all.
Let’s take a closer look at the math.
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Book Your Grant Game Plan → See what we’ve won for organizations like yoursThe average full-time grant writer earns about $78,569 in salary. Add 25% for benefits and overhead, and you’re looking at roughly $103,000 a year. The median nonprofit wins about 20 grants annually. That works out to around $5,000 in administrative cost per successful application… in staff time alone.
A grant consultant typically costs $40,000-$60,000 a year. That’s a savings of $43,000-$63,000 compared to hiring in-house. And you get senior-level, CFRE-certified expertise instead of training a junior hire from scratch.
But here’s what the spreadsheet doesn’t capture.
The one grant that changes everything.
One nonprofit came to us spending zero on grant writing because they “couldn’t afford it.” In their first six months working with our team, they secured $400,000 in foundation grants. The service paid for itself more than 8 times over.
So, I’ll ask you directly: What is it costing your organization NOT to have a grant strategy? Not in abstract terms, in actual dollars you’re leaving on the table this quarter?
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I’ve had this conversation with hundreds of nonprofits. The ones who take the call almost always wish they’d done it sooner.
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