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Free Grant Application Template

Applicants register for your funding in one structured pass — organization, project, budget ask and timeline — so every review starts from the same baseline.

one shape per applicant
~10 min
review-ready
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Quick answer

Use it to open a funding round where every review must be comparable: applicants submit organization, project, beneficiaries, budget ask and timeline in one fixed shape, so the panel's job becomes a comparison rather than a translation.

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About this template

Funding requests that arrive as scattered PDFs and long emails are hard to compare — reviewers end up grading storytelling. This application brings every applicant into one shape: who they are, what the project does, who it serves, how much is asked, over what timeline. The uniform baseline makes your panel's job a comparison, not a translation.

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Sample form preview — live and ready to fill in.

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Fill it in to see how responses flow.
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What's Included

Everything you need to run this template.

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Applicant profile

Legal or informal group identity, contact and web presence in one block.

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Project on one page

Summary, beneficiaries and need stated in fixed fields.

3

Budget ask

Amount and use-of-funds captured separately from the story.

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Milestones

Timeline fields that later become your progress check.

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How It Works

From copy to deliverable in four steps.

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Use this template

Copy it in and set fields to match your grant rules.

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Publish the link

Open the call with one application link instead of email attachments.

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Screen uniformly

Every reviewer reads the same structure for every applicant.

4

Decide and record

Track outcomes; applicants state how they wish to be notified.

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Who Is This For

Pick your role — see how it fits your workflow.

1

Program officers

Compare applications on content, not formatting effort.

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Grant committee members

Read twenty submissions with the same mental map.

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Funded projects

Reuse the milestone fields for mid-term reporting.

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Key Features

What makes this template work as a professional deliverable.

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Sample Questions Inside

A preview of the real questions in this form — exactly what respondents see.

  1. Organization or group name
  2. Contact person, email and phone
  3. Project summary in five sentences or less
  4. Who the project serves
  5. Requested amount
  6. What the funds will be used for
  7. Timeline and key milestones
  8. Links to prior reports or proof (optional)
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Frequently Asked Questions

Who should use a grant application form instead of email?
Anyone running an open call with more than a handful of applicants — fixed fields keep comparisons fair and spare reviewers from hunting for basics buried in prose.
How is this different from a matching-gift partnership?
A matching-gift form sets terms between a company and your nonprofit about employee donations; this form collects projects applying for money from your fund.
Does the form decide who gets funded?
No. It structures what applicants state; scores and decisions stay with your review panel and your due diligence.
Is it free to use?
Yes. Copy it into your FormLM workspace, align word limits and fields with your grant guidelines, reuse each cycle.
Can applicants save and return?
Entries are submitted as they are completed; set an honest word cap — ten-minute applications yield better pools than forty-minute ones.
How do we protect applicant data?
Answers live only in your workspace; share the link with reviewers and keep sensitive fields out of the form.

Give every applicant the same page

One structured pass — org, project, ask, timeline — reviewable side by side.