Read one before you request one.
This is a complete sample report, prepared by our Evidence Engine — the system that reads what 3,900+ Florida foundations actually funded in their IRS 990-PF filings and scores every opportunity for one specific organization. Every funder fact on this page is real, drawn from the funders' own filings (years shown). The organization is fictional — "Riverbend Family Services" — so we can show you a whole report without publishing a client's.
Winnable-Grant Report — Riverbend Family Services
Demonstration organization: a Broward County youth & family services nonprofit, ~$1.4M annual budget, no dedicated grants staff. Fictional on purpose; everything below about the funders is real.
Scored matches
Ad Henderson Foundation — Winnability 84 · Strong fit
- The receipts (2020–2022 filings): 57 Florida grants totaling $3,972,296, median $65,000 — and 17 of those grants, $853,271, went to youth & family services.
- Why it fits Riverbend: their giving lands in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, and Davie — Riverbend's home county — and a $65,000 median matches a program-size ask, not a long shot.
- The move: a letter of inquiry anchored to their own funding history. Their full profile is public — check the receipts yourself.
Green Family Foundation Trust — Winnability 61 · Worth a look
- The receipts (2021–2023 filings): 39 Florida grants totaling $5,142,389 — 13 matching youth & family causes. Big numbers, but concentrated: the totals are driven by a handful of very large education grants, and the median across all grants is $5,000.
- The honest caution: their giving centers on Miami-Dade — one county south of Riverbend. Winnable, not easy: this is a relationship-first funder for a Broward org, and the realistic first check is small.
- The move: start where their money already is — read the profile before spending a board meeting on it.
Bay Branch Foundation — Winnability 22 · Skip
- The receipts (2021–2023 filings): a genuinely generous funder — 85 Florida grants, $6,729,670. And not one of those itemized grants matched youth & family causes in our nine-sector index.
- The verdict, plainly: a beautiful balance sheet that has never bought what Riverbend does. This is the line most grant help won't give you: skip it, and spend that week on the two funders above.
Your real report also scores every open federal posting the same way. We left live federal deadlines out of this sample so it can never go stale — yours covers what is actually open the week it is built, with each deadline verified at the source and stamped.
The sample draft
Every report ends with a real piece of writing: a Statement of Need for the top-scoring match, built from public data, yours to keep whoever you hire. The demonstration version, with the data slots visible:
- "In Broward County, [the draft uses your community's real numbers here — census figures, need data, service gaps, each with its source]. Riverbend Family Services has served [your actual record — years, families served, outcomes]. The Ad Henderson Foundation's own giving history — 17 youth and family grants across its last three filings — shows this is the work it already chooses to fund. This request asks the foundation to extend that commitment to [the program], where [the measurable gap the funder's dollars close]."
No adjectives doing the work of evidence. That is the house style, and a senior grant professional — named in your engagement letter — verifies every fact before anything reaches a funder.
If a verdict says winnable
The report is free and complete either way — some organizations take it and run, and that is a fine outcome. When you want the application written: one flat fee, fixed in writing before work begins, never a percentage of any award, submission-ready at least five business days before the deadline or you don't pay. Most first engagements start with the smallest shape, a foundation letter of inquiry. The full service and both guarantees.
The fine print
Riverbend Family Services is fictional; its scores and fit reasoning are illustrative of the Evidence Engine's method. All funder figures are our reading of the named funders' public IRS 990-PF filings for the years shown — 990-PFs become public one to two years after the fiscal year they cover; confirm current priorities with each funder before applying. Winnable Grants is not affiliated with any funder named here. Fit signals are editorial judgment, never predictions of award outcomes; funding decisions rest entirely with funders.