Your funding process should no longer be limited by a tedious grant process.
Raising money is long and convoluted
Portals, letters of intent, attachments in the wrong format. Before you write a word, the process has already cost you weeks you do not have.
Grants you could win go unawarded
Every year funders leave grants on the table because too few organizations apply. Some of that money was yours to win. You just never heard about it.
Grant writers are limited in capacity
Whether you use a grant writer or not, every funder’s opportunities, priorities, and deadlines are now more accessible than ever.
We broke the funding process down to a science and built an automation-driven winning formula.
Each outcome accelerates the next funding source, whether it’s from DAFs or private funders.
Intake
Free to startA guided intake builds the organization’s living profile: story, numbers, voice.
→ Living profile
Matching
Funders ranked and scored against the profile across 12 funding lanes.
→ Ranked matches
Application
The agent drafts every answer in the organization’s voice. You review and submit.
→ Submitted application
Reporting
Every award and post-grant report lands on one deadline calendar, with Radar watching the dates. Every outcome sharpens the profile.
→ Stronger profile
A team who knows how to build and pursue a vision like yours.
We are three founders with 40+ years of nonprofit leadership experience between us. We decided that all the stale money sitting in DAFs and private funds needs to move faster into the hands of nonprofit founders and leaders with purpose.
Rick Preato
CEO · product & people
Global nonprofit leadership for almost a decade, including the joint fundraising committee of a $30M+ nonprofit.
Justin Hartman
CTO · agents & code
Leading-edge agentic solution development: sales leadership, workflow automation, CRM creation and data-driven decision-making.
Josh Gardner
CGO · strategic partnerships & sales
With 20 years spent navigating the funding realities of nonprofits and churches, Josh brings a rare command of financial strategy, technical fundraising, and the partnerships that turn mission into sustainable growth.
Why now?
Sources: Cerulli Associates, U.S. High-Net-Worth Markets (2024); DAF Research Collaborative, Annual DAF Report (2025); National Philanthropic Trust, The 2024 DAF Report.
The largest wealth transfer in history has begun.
Much of it will move through family foundations and donor-advised funds that award by application. It will go to the organizations ready to apply, and pass over the ones that never hear about it.
Pricing
Add “compounding value” as a line item in your annual budget.
Plenary
Plus a fixed success fee on each award you receive, set by its size. We win when you win.
| Award size | Fee |
|---|---|
| Up to $10K | $1,000 |
| $10K to $25K | $2,500 |
| $25K to $50K | $4,500 |
| $50K to $100K | $8,000 |
| $100K to $250K | $16,000 |
| Over $250K | $25,000 |
| Yearly cap | $25,000 |
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about what Plenary does, what it costs, and who it is for.