Boring, by design.
Winnable Grants is run by its founder, Garrett Morr, from St. Petersburg, Florida — and no deliverable leaves the practice until a senior grant professional has verified every fact and signed off. We hold one strong opinion: community organizations lose more to wrong grants than to bad writing. So we built the whole practice around one question. Can you actually win this?
What we do, in one paragraph
Winnable Grants writes grant proposals for Florida nonprofits, rural hospitals, and community health centers. Every engagement is priced as one flat fee, quoted in writing before any work starts, never a percentage of the award: a structure that is unallowable on federal grants under 2 CFR Part 200 and prohibited by the Grant Professionals Association Code of Ethics. Our Evidence Engine — the system that reads what 3,900+ Florida foundations actually funded — does the drafting heavy lifting, and no deliverable reaches a client until a senior grant professional has verified every fact and signed off — your engagement letter names your reviewer before work begins. Both entry points are free: Grant Radar — Florida is a biweekly email of scored grant opportunities, and the Winnable-Grant Report is a free scored report on the grants a specific organization can actually win. The paid writing service exists for the moment the answer to "should we apply?" is yes.
Why we exist
The organizations doing the hardest work in Florida — the food bank, the crisis line, the rural clinic, the shelter, the after-school program, the county theatre, the animal rescue — are usually the ones without a grants person. Not because grants don't matter to them, but because every dollar already has a job. The nine fields we score are all the same shape: too big to be invisible to funders, too small to have anyone whose job title says "grants."
What those organizations get offered instead is a bad menu: contingency operators whose fee structure is literally prohibited on federal grants, hourly freelancers who write whatever you hand them without asking whether you can win it, and software subscriptions that give you a searchable haystack and wish you luck.
We think the order of operations is backwards everywhere else. Fit first, writing second. The most valuable thing we produce isn't prose; it's the honest answer to should you even apply? That answer is free: a plain fit verdict in Grant Radar every week, and a full 0–100 score in the Winnable-Grant Report for your specific organization. The writing is what you can hire us for after the answer is yes.
Who's behind this
I'm Garrett Morr. I came up through construction, then IT, then project management — fields where a claim without evidence gets somebody hurt, and where the person who signs their name to the work is the person accountable for it. Both habits followed me here.
I built Winnable Grants nights and weekends, around a day job, because I kept watching small Florida organizations lose something worse than money: months of a director's evenings, spent on applications to funders who were never going to say yes. The advice they could afford was guesswork. The data that would have told them the truth — what each funder actually funded, at what size, in which counties — was sitting in public filings the whole time.
So I built the Evidence Engine to read it: 3,900+ Florida foundations' IRS filings so far, 120 of those funder profiles published free, every deadline verified at its source before it ships, and a scoring system honest enough to say skip this one. I'd rather show receipts than make promises — that's why the report is free, why a full sample is public, and why "no" is a real answer here.
How we work
Our foundation matches come from funders' own IRS filings: who they actually gave to, and how much. When we say a funder fits you, we show the receipts.
Our Evidence Engine reads more filings in a week than a person could in a year — and a senior grant professional, named to you in your engagement letter, is accountable for every fact in every deliverable before you see it.
You review, approve, and submit every application under your own registration. On full payment, the deliverables are yours, including a narrative library you keep.
On-time or refunded; meets published requirements or we fix it free, uncapped. The details are on the services page, not buried in a contract.
Three things we'll never do
- Take a percentage of your award. It's unallowable under federal cost principles (2 CFR Part 200), prohibited by the Grant Professionals Association Code of Ethics, and a red flag to every experienced program officer. Flat fee, quoted up front, always.
- Guarantee you'll win. Nobody can. We guarantee our side: the deadline and the quality. And we show you the winnability score before you spend anything, so hope is never the strategy.
- Pitch you a grant we don't believe in. If your report comes back thin, we say "not yet" and tell you what would change the answer. An engagement that shouldn't happen is worse for us than no engagement; this business only works if clients get funded and tell their peers.
If that sounds unexciting, good.
Grant funding is a trust business, and trust is built out of boring things done on time, every time. The operating principle