Grant review, sized for a small foundation.
For foundations and grant programs that need a structured review process on a small organization's budget.
Applications · staged review · scoring · reports
A grant cycle means hundreds of PDFs in different formats, several review stages, criteria that change from program to program, and a report for the board at the end.
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High volume of applications
Hundreds of PDFs, each laid out differently, tracked in a spreadsheet and an inbox.
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Multiple review stages
Initial screening, full review, and committee decisions, spread across panels and weeks.
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Different criteria for each program
Each program needs its own rubric, and a shared form rarely fits them all.
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Reporting requirements
Board reports, demographic summaries, and funder compliance each take hours of copying numbers by hand.
What a shelf does.
An application page
Applicants apply through your shelf's entry page and answer the fields you define.
Review in stages
Set up stages that match your process, such as initial screening, panel review, and a final committee.
Scoring and ranking
Reviewers score against your rubric, and you see the combined scores and the top-ranked applications.
Committee coordination
Assign reviewers, balance their workloads, and see who is behind.
Export and reporting
Export applications, scores, and decisions to CSV or PDF for your board, funders, or compliance reports.
$390 to $1,290 a year.
Enterprise grants management systems can cost $50,000 a year or more and take months to set up. TextShelf covers the core of the work (applications, review, scoring, and decisions), and a shelf can be ready the same day. Nonprofit discounts are available to 501(c)(3) organizations.
Free — run a small call
100 submissions a year, 5 readers per shelf, unlimited shelves. The reading room and the free Mac app.
Standard — a program, a journal, a studio
Up to 1,000 submissions a year. Unlimited shelves and readers. 25 GB storage. Exports and reporting. Billed once a year.
Organization — several programs
Up to 5,000 submissions a year. Custom branding, your own storage bucket, priority support. Billed once a year.
Priced by the submissions you take in each year. Nonprofit discounts on request; for larger programs and institutions, talk to us.