DraftBank
For small arts & culture nonprofits

Your past grant proposals, working for you.

DraftBank is an AI grant writing tool that turns everything your nonprofit has ever written into a reusable answer library — paste any RFP and get a structured, fundable first draft in minutes.

See how the library works →
State Arts Council · Project GrantLive demo · no signup
RFP question

Describe your organization's mission and history.

500-word limit · narrative section

Drafted answer

Your draft appears here — assembled from the tagged answer blocks below, in your voice.

Your answer library
Mission
We bring professional live theater to rural communities that rarely get to see it.
Org history
Founded 2009 · 14 seasons · 38 original productions staged across the county.
Need statement
Rural audiences travel 40+ miles for professional live performance; most go without.
Evaluation plan
Pre/post surveys, attendance counts, and teacher feedback every program cycle.
Budget narrative
72% of the request funds artist fees and teaching-artist stipends.

Built for the two-person dev team applying to the same funders as the big institutions — with a tenth of the writing capacity.

You know the drill

An RFP lands with a three-week deadline. You dig up last year's similar application, copy-paste the mission, rewrite the org history to fit a new word limit, re-answer the evaluation question for the hundredth time, reformat everything, and submit at 11pm.

The hard part isn't the thinking. It's re-typing what you've already written. Again.

The answer library

Write it once.
Reuse it forever.

Every proposal you upload becomes searchable, tagged answer blocks. A new grant asks for your mission? It's already there — adapted to the question and the word count. Your institutional knowledge stops living in one overworked person's head and a folder of old Word docs.

  • Mission, history, need, evaluation, budget — extracted automatically
  • Drafts in your established voice, not a generic AI tone
  • Survives staff turnover — the library is the org's, not one person's
Riverside Theater · answer catalog6 blocks
Mission
reused last cycle

We bring professional live theater to rural communities that rarely get to see it.

Org history

Founded 2009 · 14 seasons · 38 original productions staged across the county.

Need statement

Rural audiences travel 40+ miles for professional live performance; most go without.

Evaluation plan
reused last cycle

Pre/post surveys, attendance counts, and teacher feedback every program cycle.

Budget narrative

72% of the request funds artist fees and teaching-artist stipends.

Community impact

11 schools and 4,200 students reached through our teaching-artist program each year.

How it works

From a folder of old proposals to a fundable draft — in three moves.

01

Upload your past proposals.

We read them and build a tagged library of your reusable answers — mission, history, need statement, evaluation plan, budget narrative.

02

Paste the new RFP.

We map its real sections, word limits, and required attachments — no guessing the structure of a new funder's application.

03

Get a structured first draft.

Every section drafted from your library, in your voice. You edit the 20% that's actually new, not the 80% you've written before.

25–40 hrs

the average time to write one proposal — most of it content you've already written.

90–143

nonprofits per working grant writer in the US. The work massively outstrips the people.

Arts-tuned

built around arts-council & NEA formats and how arts orgs describe programs and impact.

I used to dread the org-history section every single time. Now it's drafted from what we actually wrote last year, and I spend my hours on the project narrative — the part only I can write.
Development Manager community theater · 6 staff
I keep a separate library for each arts client. A new RFP comes in and I'm 80% of the way to a first draft before I've made coffee. It paid for itself on the first proposal.
Freelance grant writer 4 arts & culture clients
Pricing

Flat pricing. Unlimited seats.

No per-seat traps. No funder-database you didn't ask for. Free to draft your first grant — and flat after that. Reserve a founding-org price and lock $39/mo for life.

For comparison: Grantable starts at $50/mo, Pro is $150/mo. DraftBank is $39 flat.

Honest answers

The questions every grant writer asks first.

Built by people who've done the 11pm submission. No hype — just the things you'd want to know before trusting a tool with your proposals.

It would be — if it wrote from nothing. DraftBank drafts from your past proposals and your voice. You're reusing your best work, adapted to the question, not generating filler. You stay the writer.

Your answer library is private to your organization. We don't train public models on your proposals, and you can export or delete your library at any time.

We're tuned for state arts councils, the NEA's Grants for Arts Projects, and regional/community foundations — and the way arts orgs describe programs, audience, artistic merit, and community impact.

Finished drafts export to Microsoft Word and Google Docs with your sections and formatting intact, so you can polish and submit in the tools you already use.

That's exactly who this is for. Start free and prove it on a real grant before paying anything. Org is $39/mo flat with unlimited seats — a no-board-meeting decision.

We never auto-submit and never market this as machine-written. It's a faster first draft from your own library; the judgment, the edits, and the submission stay yours.

“I built DraftBank because I watched someone rewrite the same grant answers, cycle after cycle, at midnight. The thinking was done years ago. The re-typing shouldn't be the job.”

— the DraftBank team · for small arts & culture nonprofits

Stop rewriting. Start reusing.

Turn your past proposals into a reusable answer library and draft your next grant from your own words — free to start.

No card to start · $39/mo flat after · unlimited seats