Use this free Grant Funding Toolkit to make better funding decisions, identify weaknesses before donors do, strengthen your programme and proposal, and plan your application with more confidence. Then use GrantsWriterAI when you are ready to turn your evidence and ideas into structured grant documents. Built for nonprofits, NGOs, CBOs, social-impact teams and grant professionals — especially those working across Africa.
A strong application starts before the writing. First choose the right opportunity, check readiness, strengthen the programme, organize evidence, build the application and review risks before submission.
You do not need to use every tool. Pick the one that matches your current decision.
Before your team spends days on an application, run a quick check on whether the opportunity deserves serious attention.
Find the organizational weaknesses that may make fundraising harder even when your mission and programmes are strong.
Test whether a programme has the basic ingredients donors typically need to understand and assess a funding proposition.
Move beyond “this donor gives grants” and examine whether the donor genuinely aligns with your organization and work.
Strong claims need evidence. Use this inventory to see what your organization can actually document before a donor asks.
Work backwards from the deadline so the proposal, budget, evidence, partner inputs and review are not left until the last few days.
Use a basic pre-submission check to spot budget assumptions and inconsistencies that deserve another look.
Before polishing the writing, look for bigger problems that can weaken an otherwise well-written submission.
Eligibility for a large award is not the same as being ready to manage it. Explore the operational demands behind the money.
Funding decisions change as your organization, programme and donor opportunity change. Save this page and return at the stage where your next question appears.
Bookmark the hub, use the relevant checker during opportunity review or proposal planning, and share the result with the colleague responsible for the next step.
Use a tool during workshops as a practical exercise, then send participants back to this hub so they can continue with the rest of the funding journey.
Share the Toolkit as a free self-reflection resource for grantees or member organizations. For portfolio-level readiness work, contact Africads about deeper assessment and capacity development.
No usage-count claims, rankings or funding guarantees are made. These tools are preliminary self-checks designed to help teams ask better questions.
The diagnostic tools help you think through the decision. GrantsWriterAI helps you move into execution — including proposals, concept notes, budgets and budget narratives, logframes, Theory of Change, MEL materials, work plans, risk sections and sustainability sections.
Use it to structure and develop your application materials, then review the output against the donor's actual requirements and your organization's real evidence.
Think of the workflow this way: the Africads tools help you diagnose and plan; GrantsWriterAI helps you draft and organize the documents needed to move the application forward. It is a grant-writing assistant — not a grant maker and not a guarantee of funding.
These are educational self-checks. They can surface questions and risks, but they are not a formal AFRI assessment, audit, certification, legal opinion or guarantee of funding.
Use the free tools for an initial check. If you need a more rigorous review of the opportunity, your organization's readiness or a proposal before submission, Africads offers expert support.
Review a specific opportunity for eligibility, fit, competitiveness, evidence gaps, major requirements and award-absorption considerations.
Examine the systems, evidence, people, controls and capacity behind your fundraising ambitions.
Donor-side/red-team review covering alignment, logic, evidence, targets, budget consistency, MEL and submission weaknesses.
Tell Africads what you are working on and which kind of review you need.
Some tools ask for your name, email, organization and assessment answers so the result can be stored in the Africads WordPress system. Treat the result as a preliminary self-check. Africads should only use identifiable submissions in line with its privacy practices; public research or benchmarking should rely on appropriately governed, anonymized or aggregated data.
Yes. The current Africads diagnostic tools are designed as free preliminary self-checks. Some users may later choose a paid Africads review or GrantsWriterAI based on what they discover.
No. A credible tool cannot promise a donor decision. The tools help you examine fit, readiness, programme design, evidence and application risks so you can make better decisions.
No. Use the tool that matches your current stage. An organization researching a donor needs a different tool from an organization preparing to submit a proposal.
Funding readiness looks at the organization behind the application. Program fundability looks at whether a particular programme is clear, evidence-informed, measurable, realistic and credible as a funding proposition.
Fix what you can internally. If the gap is material or the funding opportunity is important, consider an Africads Funding Opportunity Review, Funding Readiness Assessment or Grant Proposal Review. GrantsWriterAI can support the document-development workflow.
Africads does not award grants and these tools do not guarantee funding, donor approval or eligibility. Always review the official funding notice, guidelines and amendments before applying.