Apply-Ready is a $9 grant application drafting service from GrantCompass. You answer four short questions about your business and, about 20 seconds later, read a free preview of a draft written for one specific grant. No card, no account. The full draft costs $9, and you submit it yourself on the funder’s own form. We draft for eighteen grants: the Amber Grant for Women, the Hey Helen Grant, the HerRise MicroGrant, the Freed Fellowship Grant, the Business Freedom Grant, the SecretSoS Small Business Grant, The Hustle Grant, the YippityDoo Big Idea Grant, the Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant, the IFW Startup Accelerator Grant, the Hiring Our Heroes Small Business Grant, the Sephora Beauty Grant, the Seated Together Small Business Microgrant, the Hustler’s MicroGrant, the Awesome Foundation Micro-Grant, the Outta Excuses Small Business Empowerment Grant, the Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program and the Thiel Fellowship. We use only what you tell us. GrantCompass is independent, cannot submit for you and does not guarantee a win.
Pick your grant and start a free draft ↓The preview is free. No card and no account to start.
Apply-Ready writes a first draft of your grant application from four answers you give about your business. You see a preview for free. The full draft is $9, paid by card through Stripe, and refunded in full within 7 days if it doesn’t make your application stronger. You copy the answers into the funder’s form and submit it yourself.
Most grant forms ask you to describe your business in a few hundred words, in a way that fits what the judges score. You already know the facts. The slow part is getting them onto the page in the right order and at the right length. Apply-Ready takes the facts from you and writes them to the questions that grant’s form asks.
It doesn’t submit anything for you, and it can’t promise a win. GrantCompass is independent and has no affiliation with any funder on this page.
| What you get | A draft of the written answers for one specific grant application, written from your own answers. |
|---|---|
| Price | The preview is free. The full draft is $9. |
| Optional add-on | Drafts for the other month-end grants you qualify for, from the same answers: $5 each, never more than $15. The most you can pay in total is $24. |
| Grants covered | Eighteen. They are listed below with each funder’s award, entry fee and deadline rule. |
| Your part | Answer four short questions (5 to 10 minutes), fill in any marked blanks, then paste the answers into the funder’s form. |
| Who writes it | An AI model, Anthropic’s Claude, using only what you tell us. |
| Who submits it | You do, on the funder’s own form. GrantCompass cannot submit for you. |
| Refund | A full refund within 7 days if the draft doesn’t make your application stronger. You keep the draft. |
| Payment | By card through Stripe. No account is needed, and we email you the link to your draft. |
| The funder’s entry fee | Separate from our $9. You pay it to the funder, on their form, when you submit. |
There are six steps, and the first four cost nothing. You only reach the payment step after you have read part of your own draft.
Open the page for the grant you want from the table below. The draft form is on that page. Each grant has its own form here because each funder asks different questions.
FreeThe first screen asks that grant’s eligibility questions, such as whether the business is at least 50% woman-owned or registered in the United States. If the rules exclude you, we say so there and stop. At that point you have written nothing and paid nothing.
Yes or No questionsThey are about your business, in plain words:
A sentence or two each is enough, and “just starting” is a fine answer to the third one. Your business name and any other details come after the preview.
5 to 10 minutesWe write the draft in about 20 seconds. Longer applications can take up to a minute. You see the opening paragraph in full, the funder’s questions with the number of words we wrote for each, and a checklist of the judging points the draft covers. If you want time to think, you can have the link to your draft emailed to you.
About 20 secondsNo card, no accountCheckout is by card through Stripe. The full draft opens as soon as the payment clears, and we email you the link. Before you pay you can tick an add-on: drafts for the other month-end grants you qualify for, written from the same answers, at $5 each and never more than $15.
$9Add-on is optionalWhere a stronger answer needs a detail only you know, the draft has a marked blank and a question. Answer the questions and we rewrite the application with your additions, in about 20 seconds each time. The page also highlights any line that goes a little beyond what you told us, so you can check it is true or delete it. You can change any wording on the page.
Then copy each answer into the matching box on the funder’s form, pay the funder’s entry fee if there is one, and submit.
You submitThe funder’s fee is separateEvery grant in this table has a written application that is judged on what you write, and we have confirmed its questions on the funder’s live form. The awards, entry fees and deadline rules are the funders’ own. Each grant name opens its page with the draft form ready.
One of the eighteen closes on November 6, 2026: Sephora Beauty Grant. After that, the Business Freedom Grant has a review round closing November 15, 2026 and a final deadline of December 31, 2026; the Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program closes November 17, 2026; the Amber Grant for Women closes November 30, 2026; the Freed Fellowship Grant closes November 30, 2026; the HerRise MicroGrant closes November 30, 2026; the Hey Helen Grant closes November 30, 2026; the IFW Startup Accelerator Grant closes November 30, 2026; the YippityDoo Big Idea Grant closes November 30, 2026; the Hiring Our Heroes Small Business Grant closes December 15, 2026; the Outta Excuses Small Business Empowerment Grant closes December 31, 2026; the SecretSoS Small Business Grant closes December 31, 2026; the Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant closes January 19, 2027. The Hustle Grant: Monthly (winner named on the 15th; The Hustle announces each cutoff in its newsletter). Seated Together Small Business Microgrant: Rolling; reviewed in quarterly cycles. Hustler's MicroGrant: Applications open monthly (no published closing date). Awesome Foundation Micro-Grant: Rolling; most chapters choose a project each month. Thiel Fellowship: Rolling: applications are accepted year round. Each link opens that grant’s page with the draft form ready.
| Grant | Award | Funder’s fee | Deadline rule | Questions | Who can apply |
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| Amber Grant for Women WomensNet | $15,000 monthly (plus $75,000 year-end grants) | $15 | Last day of each month | 2 | 50%+ woman-owned |
| Hey Helen Grant Hey Helen | $10,000 monthly | $15 | Last day of each month, 11:59pm ET | 4 | 50%+ woman-owned · US for-profit · revenue under $1M |
| HerRise MicroGrant HerSuiteSpot / Yva Jourdan Foundation | $1,000 monthly | $15 | Last day of each month, 11:59pm | 2 | 51%+ woman-owned · US for-profit · revenue under $1M |
| Freed Fellowship Grant Freed Studio | $500 monthly (plus a $2,500 year-end grant) | $19 | Last day of each month, midnight ET | 3 | US for-profit business |
| Business Freedom Grant Darcy’s Business | $1,000 | No fee | December 31, 11:59pm EDT (a second review round closes November 15; entries not picked early stay in for the final round) | 4 | No eligibility questions in our form |
| SecretSoS Small Business Grant SecretSoS | $2,500 each quarter | $15 | Last day of each quarter (March 31, June 30, September 30, December 31), 11:59pm CT | 4 | US resident 21+ with a registered business · woman-, veteran- or minority-owned, or turned down for a bank loan, or in an economic development zone |
| The Hustle Grant The Hustle Grant | $1,000 monthly | $15 | Monthly (winner named on the 15th; The Hustle announces each cutoff in its newsletter) | 2 | 50%+ woman-owned · operates in the US |
| YippityDoo Big Idea Grant Yippity Doo | $1,000 monthly | $15 | Last day of each month, 11:59pm PT | 4 | 50%+ woman-owned and woman-run · US resident |
| Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant Her Agenda | $5,000 (one winner) | $25 | January 19, 2027, 11:59pm EST (Volume IV; winner announced March 2027) | 7 | Operating 1+ year · US-based or US-serving for-profit · 18+ and a Her Agenda newsletter subscriber |
| IFW Startup Accelerator Grant IFW by Honeycomb (iFundWomen) | $5,000 (one winner) | $5 | November 30, 2026, 11:59pm ET (winner selected on or about December 15, 2026) | 3 | US resident 18+ who owns 50%+ of a US-based business · idea stage welcome |
| Hiring Our Heroes Small Business Grant U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, with FedEx | $10,000 (four winners) or $25,000 (grand prize) | No fee | December 15, 2026, 11:59pm EDT (winners notified by March 29, 2027) | 6 | 51%+ veteran, Guard/Reserve or military-spouse owned · 3–20 people · under $5M · distressed zip code or hardship |
| Sephora Beauty Grant Sixteen Percent Pledge, with Sephora | $100,000 (one grant, plus consulting and a meeting with Sephora merchants) | No fee | November 6, 2026 (finalists notified early January 2027) | 3 | Beauty, haircare, makeup, skincare, fragrance or bath & body brand · $100K+ annual revenue · 51%+ owned by an underrepresented founder (women count) · US · 1+ year |
| Seated Together Small Business Microgrant Seated Together | $750 (up to $1,000 for veteran-owned businesses) | $5 | Rolling; reviewed in quarterly cycles | 4 | Any for-profit US business 18+ owner, startups and pre-revenue welcome · not adult, cannabis, gambling, firearms, MLM or political |
| Hustler’s MicroGrant HerSuiteSpot (Deja Vu Parker) | $1,000 monthly | $15 | Applications open monthly (no published closing date) | 2 | Small-business owners anywhere in the US · not limited to women |
| Awesome Foundation Micro-Grant The Awesome Foundation (local chapters) | $1,000 (no strings attached; most chapters give one a month) | No fee | Rolling; most chapters choose a project each month | 3 | Anyone (individuals, groups or organizations) with a project that benefits a community · apply to a chapter near you |
| Outta Excuses Small Business Empowerment Grant Outta Excuses (Be Intentional Coaching) | $3,000 (one winner each quarter, plus 30 days of weekly coaching) | $15 | December 31, 2026, 11:59pm ET (quarterly rounds) | 2 | Registered LLC or 501(c)(3) · under $500K a year · US, DC or Puerto Rico resident 18+ |
| Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program Tory Burch Foundation | $2,000 education grant plus a year of the Fellows program | No fee | November 17, 2026, 11:59pm ET (one round a year) | 8 | Woman with the largest stake in a 51%+ women-owned US business · $75K to $1M a year · running it is her main job · 21+ |
| Thiel Fellowship Thiel Foundation | $250,000 over two years | No fee | Rolling: applications accepted year round | 8 | A person 22 or younger with no university degree, building something (no company needed) |
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Most of these funders charge their own entry fee, so the full cost of entering with a draft is our $9 plus their fee. For the Amber Grant for Women that is $9 to us and $15 to WomensNet. The Business Freedom Grant has no entry fee.
These are the written questions on each funder’s form, copied word for word, next to the points each funder says its judges score. A draft covers these written answers. Your name, address and the other fields on the form are yours to fill in.
Two essays. The judges look at your story, your plan to grow, and exactly how you would spend the money.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
The business is at least 50% owned by a woman or women.
Four questions: your business, your impact, your traction, and a plan for using the money within six months.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
At least 50% woman-owned, a for-profit business registered in the United States, with annual revenue under $1 million.
Two answers, and the form gives you 250 characters for each, so every word has to count.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
At least 51% woman-owned, a for-profit business registered in the United States, with annual revenue under $1 million.
Three answers, scored on five things Freed calls the 5Cs.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
A for-profit business registered in the United States.
Four answers with word limits, scored out of 10 on four published criteria.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
Our form asks no eligibility questions for this one. Read the funder's rules on its own page before you apply.
Four essays. SecretSoS publishes its scoring, and how you will use the money is the biggest part.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
A US resident over 21 with a registered business (LLC, corporation, sole proprietorship or DBA). The business must also be woman-, veteran- or minority-owned, or have been turned down for (or not qualify for) a bank loan, or sit in an economic development zone.
Two essays about your story and where the money goes. No formal business plan is needed.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
At least 50% woman-owned, and the business or business idea operates in the United States.
Four answers in your own voice. Vision and passion carry 40% of the score each.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
The business or idea is at least 50% woman-owned and woman-run, and you live and operate in the United States.
Seven written questions. Five of them have word limits that add up to 1,150 words.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
Operating for at least one year (idea-stage and pre-launch businesses aren't eligible), a for-profit business based in or serving the US, and you are 18 or older and subscribed to the free Her Agenda newsletter.
Three written answers of up to 1,000 characters each. A review panel picks the winner, not a random draw.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
You are 18 or older and a legal resident of the US, you own at least 50% of the business, and the business is based in the US. Idea-stage and pre-revenue businesses can apply, and it isn't limited to women.
Six written answers of up to 2,000 characters each. A panel scores three things equally.
The form asks
What the judges score
Who can apply
You own at least 51% of a for-profit US business and are a veteran, a current Guard or Reserve member, or a current military spouse. The business has 3 to 20 people (counting you, staff and contractors), under $5 million in revenue, and is in an economically distressed zip code or can show a hardship beyond your control.
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Three long written answers, no word limit. A review committee picks the finalists; the funder’s own tips sheet says what each answer should cover. The 60-second video, 5-slide deck and P&L are yours to make.
The form asks
What the funder’s tips sheet asks each answer to show
Who can apply
A US-incorporated brand selling a consumer product in beauty, haircare, makeup or makeup tools, skincare, fragrance, or bath and body, with at least $100,000 in annual revenue, at least a year in business, and 51% or more owned by an underrepresented founder or founding team (women, Black, AAPI, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and first-generation immigrant founders among them).
Four written answers of up to 300 words each. A review committee reads every application; the funder says its pool is hundreds, not tens of thousands.
The form asks
What the review committee considers
Who can apply
Any for-profit business operating in the US, including startups, pre-revenue, home-based and online businesses, applied for by an owner or officer aged 18 or older. Nonprofits and adult, cannabis or CBD, gambling, firearms, multi-level marketing and political businesses are excluded. Volusia County, Florida businesses get preference when applications are otherwise comparable.
Two written answers of up to 250 characters each. Finalists are picked each month.
The form asks
How finalists are chosen
Who can apply
Small-business owners anywhere in the United States who are building, growing or stabilizing a business. It isn’t limited to women.
Three written answers with hard limits of 2,000, 500 and 500 characters. Each chapter’s trustees fund a project, most of them once a month. You pick the chapter and name the project; some chapters add questions of their own.
The form asks
What trustees look for
Who can apply
Anyone: individuals, groups and organizations alike. Most chapters prefer projects that contribute to their own communities, and they generally pass on personal projects and on existing efforts a small grant wouldn’t change.
Two written answers with no length limit, read by a review panel from Be Intentional Coaching and the Outta Excuses advisory board. One owner wins $3,000 and 30 days of weekly coaching. This round closes December 31, 2026.
The form asks
What the panel looks for
Who can apply
Owners of a registered LLC or registered 501(c)(3) bringing in under $500,000 a year, who are 18 or older (19 in Alabama and Nebraska) and legal residents of the 50 states, DC or Puerto Rico.
Eight written answers, each with a word range (the form for businesses under $1 million a year), plus a 1–2 minute video you record yourself. A committee picks the Fellows. This year’s round closes November 17, 2026.
The form asks
What the committee looks for
Who can apply
A woman 21 or older who owns the largest (or equally largest) stake in a US business at least 51% owned and controlled by women, with $75,000 to $1 million in yearly revenue, for whom running it is her main occupation. Businesses over $1 million answer a different form.
Eight written answers with no length limit, plus basic details, links and an optional deck. Applications are accepted all year. Most of the answers are about you, not your project, so where only you can answer (what you fear, what you’re obsessed with) the draft leaves a marked gap with a prompt.
The form asks
Who can apply
Anyone 22 or younger without a university degree. Fellows leave school to take part; no company is needed.
The preview is part of your real draft, and you get it before any payment screen. It has three parts: the opening paragraph, a list of what is in the full draft, and a checklist against the funder’s judging points.
Your Amber Grant for Women application · drafted
I started Sample Street Bakery in my own kitchen, after years of baking birthday cakes for neighbors who kept telling me I should charge for them. Today I sell at two weekend markets and take custom orders by message, and most Saturdays I am sold out before noon.
In your full draft
Judging points covered
No account needed. Full refund within 7 days if it doesn’t make your application stronger.
The example on this page is made up. Sample Street Bakery is not a real applicant, and the word counts are illustrative. Your preview is written from your own answers, for the grant you picked.
Not ready to buy when you see it? You can have the link to your draft emailed to you, with one reminder before that grant closes.
Start with the free preview. Pick one of the eighteen grants, answer four questions, and read the opening of your own draft before you decide about the $9.
Pick your grant ↑The free part is enough to tell whether the draft sounds like your business. The $9 buys every answer in full, plus the rewriting that turns a first draft into something you can paste and submit.
No card and no account.
One grant. Paid once, by card through Stripe.
Five of the eighteen grants close on the last day of each month: the Amber Grant for Women, the Hey Helen Grant, the HerRise MicroGrant, the Freed Fellowship Grant and the YippityDoo Big Idea Grant. Before you pay, you can tick an add-on that drafts the others you qualify for from the same five answers. Each extra grant is $5 and the add-on never costs more than $15. It is off unless you tick it.
If the draft doesn’t make your application stronger, reply to your receipt email within 7 days and we refund the full amount. You keep the draft either way.
A draft is only useful if every sentence in it is true about your business. These are the rules the service runs on.
Read every line before you submit. The page highlights the sentences it thinks go beyond your answers, but you are the only person who knows what is true about your business.
Eighteen grants is a short list on purpose. We leave a grant out when any one of these is true.
If your grant isn’t one of the eighteen, start with these free pages instead.
It depends on where you are stuck. A draft can’t make a business stronger than it is. What it does is put what you have done into the order and length the form asks for, and show you which judging points you haven’t given it anything for yet.
Three questions to decide
Count the funder’s fee too. Twelve of the eighteen funders charge one, from $5 to $25, and it is the same whether you write the application yourself or start from a draft. The $9 is the only part that goes to GrantCompass.
If you would sooner write it yourself, that is a reasonable choice. The cards in what each funder asks give you every question and every judging point for free.
Apply-Ready is run by GrantCompass, an independent funding-discovery site that tracks more than 660 US grant, loan and tax-credit programs. You read part of your draft before you pay, the payment goes through Stripe, and there is a 7-day refund. We are not affiliated with any funder, and we don’t charge you to apply for a grant. The funders’ own entry fees go to them, on their forms. You can read who runs GrantCompass on the about page.
Yes. An AI model, Anthropic’s Claude, writes the draft from the answers you give. We supply the funder’s questions, taken from the live form, and the points the funder says its judges score. The model works only from your facts and leaves a marked blank where one is missing. Our privacy policy says the same thing. We don’t offer drafts for a grant whose form asks applicants not to use AI.
We never contact the funder and we share nothing with them. You submit from your own browser, on their form. Whether a reader can tell how an application was written is something we can’t promise either way. Two things are in your hands. The draft is built from your own facts, and you can change any sentence so that it sounds like you. Check the funder’s current rules before you submit. If a form asks applicants not to use AI, don’t use a draft for it.
No. Each of these funders takes applications on its own form, and most charge an entry fee there. Your paid draft page links to that form and has a Copy button on each answer. You paste the answers in, pay the funder’s fee if there is one, and submit.
You find out first. The draft form opens with that grant’s eligibility questions. If your answers show that the rules exclude you, we tell you which rule and stop there, before any writing and before any payment. From there you can look through the grant database or the list of small business grants open now.
If the draft doesn’t make your application stronger, reply to your receipt email within 7 days and we refund the full amount. You keep the draft.
Eighteen: Amber Grant for Women, Hey Helen Grant, HerRise MicroGrant, Freed Fellowship Grant, Business Freedom Grant, SecretSoS Small Business Grant, The Hustle Grant, YippityDoo Big Idea Grant, Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant and IFW Startup Accelerator Grant, Hiring Our Heroes Small Business Grant, Sephora Beauty Grant, Seated Together Small Business Microgrant, Hustler’s MicroGrant, Awesome Foundation Micro-Grant, Outta Excuses Small Business Empowerment Grant, Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program and Thiel Fellowship. We add a grant only after confirming its questions on the funder’s live form.
Answering the four questions takes 5 to 10 minutes. Writing the draft takes about 20 seconds, or up to a minute for the longer applications. After you pay, each rewrite with your added details takes about 20 seconds as well. How long you spend on the blanks is up to you.
Your answers are used to write your draft. Anthropic, the company whose model writes it, processes them for that purpose, and Stripe processes the card payment. You can ask us to delete your account data and drafts, and we do it within 30 days of the request. The privacy policy lists everything we collect and who receives it.
Yes, where the funder charges one. Twelve of the eighteen do: $15 for most (the Hustler’s MicroGrant and the Outta Excuses grant included), $5 for the IFW Startup Accelerator Grant (IFW waives it if you ask) and the Seated Together Microgrant, $19 for the Freed Fellowship Grant and $25 for the Her Agenda Breakthrough Grant. The Business Freedom Grant, the Hiring Our Heroes Small Business Grant, the Sephora Beauty Grant, the Awesome Foundation Micro-Grant, the Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program and the Thiel Fellowship have no entry fee. That money goes to the funder on their form and is separate from our $9.