You’re already doing the work. Let’s find the funding to support it.
At The Funded Pen, we have secured over $30 million in funding to support school districts, education organizations, municipalities, public agencies, and nonprofits in finding and securing funding for the work that matters in their communities.
Maybe you have a program that’s ready to grow. A need you’ve been trying to address. Or a federal or state grant that looks promising—but also comes with 70 pages of instructions.
That’s where we come in.
We bring together grant research, funding strategy, and strong proposal writing to help you find the right opportunities and build competitive applications around the work you’re already doing.
We work across federal, state, local, and foundation funding, with deep experience in education and communities across the West—and we’re especially good at the complicated ones.
Based in Colorado | Working across the West and nationwide.
Why The Funded Pen?
$20M State and Federal Funding secured and supported | $2M Education and EdTech Funding | Families and Children: $500k+ awarded.
Federal • State • Local • Foundation
Grant Strategy + Funding Research
Not every grant is the right grant.
We research federal, state, local, and foundation opportunities and help you focus on funding that fits your programs, priorities, capacity, and goals.
For organizations looking to build a more intentional funding pipeline, we also provide ongoing grant strategy and research—so you’re not starting from scratch every time someone forwards you a grant announcement with the subject line “Could we apply for this?”
Grant Research • Funding Strategy • Grant Readiness • Opportunity Assessment
Grant Writing + Proposal Development
You know your programs. We know how to make the case for funding them.
We develop competitive grant applications for school districts, municipalities, public agencies, nonprofits, and education organizations, from targeted state and local opportunities to large federal grants.
We take the lead on the proposal process—organizing requirements, developing the narrative, coordinating the pieces, and making sure the final application clearly shows the need, the work, and the results you can deliver.
Federal Grants • State & Local Grants • Foundation Grants • Government Grant Writing • School District Grants
Complex Grants + Government RFPs
Some applications need more than a writer.
We support major federal grants, government RFPs, multi-partner applications, and other complex opportunities where there are a lot of requirements—and even more moving pieces.
We help make sense of the solicitation, build the application strategy, identify gaps, coordinate information and partners, and keep the proposal moving toward submission.
Federal Grant Applications • Government RFPs • Multi-Partner Proposals • Proposal Strategy • Complex Applications
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
— Vincent van Gogh
But…. I have more priorities than funding.
Sound familiar? School districts, municipalities, public agencies, and nonprofits are being asked to do more—often with budgets that simply can’t cover every priority. That’s where grant funding can make a real difference. There’s a lot riding on an application: your time, your team, and programs and initiatives your community is counting on. We take that seriously.
You do the work. We’ll help make the case for funding it.
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