Funding prep tools

Find the tool that fits your next step.

Start with the free readiness check, then pick the prep packet built for your business: established, brand new, or a nonprofit seeking grants. When your packet is ready, an optional review by a former lender is there if you want it.

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Not sure where you stand?

The free readiness check takes a few minutes and points you to the right packet.

Free

Funding Readiness Check

A friendly self-check across your documents, books, numbers, and next steps. Free, and it points you to the right packet.

Free
Get the free readiness check
Operating one year or more

Funding Prep Packet

The full set of builders and checklists that runs the math on your numbers and organizes your funding prep into one packet.

$97 one-time
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Pre-launch or under 3 years

New Business Funding Prep Packet

Set up the basics funders expect and learn what they look for, built for new owners with little history yet.

$79 one-time
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Emerging and growing nonprofits

Grant Prep Packet

Build a reusable grant prep foundation, then prep each grant. Starts with a free readiness check.

$49 · free readiness check
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Optional add-on

Former-Lender Readiness Review

A written review of your finished packet by Cristal Finley, a former lender of fifteen years. She tells you what a lender would notice and what to fix first.

$399
Add the review
If your books need work

Bookkeeping help

If funding prep shows your books are the sticking point, Fourteen Feathers Bookkeeping can get them clean and clear.

From Fourteen Feathers
Get bookkeeping help

The new-business and nonprofit packets are open now. Use the free readiness check if you want help choosing your starting point.

Funding Prep Studio provides educational and organizational resources only. We do not lend, broker loans, or guarantee funding, approval, eligibility, or any lender or funder decision. Every lender, funder, and financing program may have different requirements. These resources are not financial, legal, tax, or credit advice.