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What replaced GrantHub Pro? An honest map.

Published June 19, 2026 · Reading time ~10 minutes

Foundant retired GrantHub and GrantHub Pro on January 31, 2026. We wrote the calm-landing piece the week of the sunset. Six months later, enough orphaned customers have crossed through every realistic option that the landscape has settled — and the official Foundant replacement guides have aged poorly. This post is the honest, post-settled map: the real options, their actual 2026 prices, and who each one is built for.

The short version: there is no like-for-like replacement at GrantHub's old $59–$129/mo price point. Every direct competitor is either materially more expensive, materially heavier, or aimed at a different customer. Most orphan orgs ended up in one of six places. We'll walk through each.

The six places GrantHub orphans landed

In rough order of where customers actually went:

  1. 1. Instrumentl — the discovery-database upgrade
  2. 2. Spreadsheets — what most orphans defaulted to
  3. 3. LiveImpact — broader nonprofit suite
  4. 4. Foundant Compass — Foundant's own enterprise platform
  5. 5. Submittable / Bonterra — usually a mistake
  6. 6. Bothy — the small-org workspace path

The verbatim Foundant sunset announcement directed customers to options 1, 3, and 4. Option 5 gets searched a lot because of brand confusion. Option 2 is what most people did, even when they didn't intend to. Option 6 is us, and we'll be upfront about that.

1. Instrumentl

Verdict:right answer if you need funder discovery, wrong answer if you don't.

Instrumentl is the largest grant management platform in the segment and the one customers most often migrated to first. The product is genuinely strong on the discovery side: a 10,000-funder database, AI-powered prospect matching, peer benchmarking, mature integrations. If your fundraising strategy depends on consistently surfacing new funders you don't already know about, Instrumentl is what you want.

2026 pricing (pulled directly from instrumentl.com/pricing on 2026-06-19):

  • Discover — $349/mo, $299/mo annual (3 users)
  • Pre-Award — $579/mo, $499/mo annual (5 users)
  • Full Lifecycle — $1,159/mo, $999/mo annual (15 users)

The honest blocker for most GrantHub orphans is the entry-tier jump from $59–$129/mo to $349/mo — that's a 171–490% increase in software cost. And post-award reporting workflows live on the $1,159/mo Full Lifecycle plan. Plenty of customers found that the budget conversation alone was disqualifying.

Side-by-side breakdown: Bothy vs. Instrumentl →

2. Spreadsheets

Verdict: the silent default; works for a while, then breaks the same five ways every time.

Half the orphan orgs we've heard from never picked a replacement tool. They exported a CSV, opened it in Google Sheets, added a Stewardship tab and a Reporting tab, and have been running on that for six months. Sometimes that's the right call. Often it's the path of least resistance that quietly costs a renewal cycle.

A spreadsheet is the right answer when you have fewer than ~12 active grants, one person enters every row, reporting requirements are simple, and cash flow makes $99/month meaningful. Past that volume, the workarounds (separate tabs that drift apart, fragile pivot tables for funder views, manual deadline reminders) stop staying in sync and the cost of one missed renewal usually exceeds a full year of any tool.

The trade-off curve in detail: Bothy vs. a spreadsheet →

3. LiveImpact

Verdict: right answer if you wanted a whole-suite donor + grant + case-management platform, wrong if you wanted a focused grant tool.

LiveImpact is one of the names Foundant pointed orphans toward. It's a broader nonprofit operations platform that includes grant tracking as one feature alongside donor management, fundraising, case management, and volunteer tracking. Pricing starts at $275/mo billed annually on their Pro tier; grant management as a standalone capability requires a custom quote.

If you were already weighing consolidating your donor and grant tools onto one platform, LiveImpact is a real option and the price is sane for what it covers. If you were happy with GrantHub specifically because it was a focused tool — most GrantHub customers were — LiveImpact will feel heavier than what you had, and the grant-management UI is a smaller part of a larger product.

Public pricing: liveimpact.org/pricing

4. Foundant Compass

Verdict:Foundant's own upgrade path; built for community foundations, not orphaned grantseekers.

Compass is Foundant's enterprise grantmaking platform — the product the company stayed invested in after retiring GrantHub. It's genuinely good software. It's also grantmaker-sidesoftware, designed for foundations distributing grants, not for nonprofits applying for them. A handful of orphan orgs got pitched Compass anyway and walked away confused; we've had at least three of them end up at Bothy after the call.

If you're a community foundation running a grantmaking program, Compass is appropriate. If you're a nonprofit looking for a GrantHub replacement, it's the wrong product category. The category confusion is real because Foundant uses similar language across both lines, but the workflows are essentially opposite.

5. Submittable / Bonterra

Verdict: high search volume, almost always a mistake.

Submittable was acquired by Bonterra in late 2024 and is now branded as part of Bonterra's suite. Customers searched for it as a GrantHub replacement because they were using Submittable's submission portals to applyfor grants. But Submittable is grantmaker-side software — it's the tool foundations use to receive and review applications. From the applicant's side, you're a guest user submitting work through someone else's portal, not running your own pipeline.

Bonterra's broader portfolio (Guided Fundraising, EveryAction, Apricot, Penelope) is donor management and case management. None of it is a like-for-like GrantHub replacement, and we've heard from several orgs who paid for a Bonterra demo only to realize the product they were sold doesn't do what they need.

If you ended up at Bonterra during your search, you're probably not in the wrong category yet — you're in the “searched the brand because you used it once” loop. Keep looking.

6. Bothy

Verdict:we built this specifically for the small nonprofit GrantHub left behind. We're biased; here's the honest version.

Bothy is the workspace we wished existed when watching small orgs lose grant managers to a patchwork of seven tools. The pitch:

  • $99/mo Solo · $149/mo Pro · $299/mo Premium (Pro and Premium include one-time setup that covers custom Bothy-verified opportunity research)
  • Post-award reporting included on every tier — not gated behind an enterprise plan
  • Stewardship tasks, lapsed-funder alerts, renewal cultivation arc, funder profile view — all first-class
  • Free migration from a GrantHub CSV export, setup fees waived
  • 50% off Solo indefinitely for orgs under $100K revenue

What we don't do:

  • 10,000-funder discovery database (we offer curated research at signup instead — 25–50 hand-vetted funders for your org specifically)
  • Peer benchmarking against other nonprofits
  • 10+ years of tenure — we're newer, 42 pilot orgs as of June 2026

If you need any of those three capabilities, we'll tell you so. If you don't, we think we're built closer to what you actually need than anything else on this list.

How to pick (a 60-second decision tree)

If you've been spinning for six months, here's the short version:

You do 20+ applications a year and need fresh prospects regularly → Instrumentl. The discovery database is worth the price.

You wanted one platform for grants + donors + cases → LiveImpact. Heavier than GrantHub, broader than Bothy, fair price for the surface area.

You're a community foundation → Foundant Compass. You're not the audience for this post, but for completeness.

You have 25–100 active opportunities, one or two grant staff, post-award reporting on the load, and the budget is tight → Bothy. This is the exact target.

You have fewer than 12 active grants and your spreadsheet is working → Stay on the spreadsheet. We'll be here when the trade-off flips.

If you're a GrantHub orphan

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