Migration guide
GrantHub is shutting down. Here's a calm plan.
Last updated May 2026 · Reading time ~6 minutes
Foundant announced that GrantHub and GrantHub Pro will be sunset and discontinued on January 31, 2026. After that date, the platform will no longer be available. If your team uses GrantHub for grant tracking, you have a hard deadline to migrate.
The good news: it's not an emergency, and you have real options. The bad news: the official replacement guides are pointing you at tools that are either much more expensive (Instrumentl), much heavier (LiveImpact), or not really like-for-like at all. This post walks through what actually changed, what to do about it, and what the trade-offs look like.
Why GrantHub is going away
Foundant — GrantHub's parent company — is concentrating on the grantmaker (funder) side of the market. Their Grant Lifecycle Manager product serves foundations reviewing applications. GrantHub served the grantseeker side (nonprofits writing them). Maintaining two distinct platforms wasn't their long-term plan, and they made the call to focus on grantmakers.
That leaves GrantHub's customers — typically small-to-mid nonprofits — looking for a new home.
Your migration options, ranked
Bothy
— $99–$149/month- Same price point as GrantHub
- Stewardship workflow + funder log built in (GrantHub didn't have this)
- Free data migration for GrantHub orphans
- Designed for small-to-mid nonprofits — not enterprise
- Setup fee waived for migrations through 2026
- Newer entrant — fewer logos on the wall
- No funder discovery database (curated research instead)
Instrumentl
— $159–$499/month- Large funder discovery database
- Strong AI matching for prospecting
- Mature feature set
- 60–400% price increase from GrantHub baseline
- Sales team has publicly said they don't want small-nonprofit accounts
- Overkill for orgs with <10 active applications
LiveImpact / Bonterra / Salesforce NPC
— Variable (typically $$$)- All-in-one CRM + grants tracking + program management
- Good if you also need full donor CRM
- Grant tracking is a small module inside a larger product
- Implementation is a project, not a setup
- Often requires consultant engagement
Back to spreadsheets
— Free- No subscription cost
- Total flexibility
- Reasons you left spreadsheets in the first place are still true
- No deadline reminders, no funder history, no team visibility
How to migrate — a 4-week plan
- Week 1 — export everything. Log into GrantHub and export your grant data, contact data, document attachments, and any custom field values as CSV. Even if you stay with GrantHub through January, doing this now is the safety net.
- Week 2 — pick a destination.Run a trial of two options. We'd say give us 20 minutes; we'll do the import for you. Compare against whichever other tool you're considering.
- Week 3 — clean the data.This is the time to reconcile duplicate funder entries, archive grants you'll never apply to again, and standardize amount formats. Migration is the cheapest moment to clean.
- Week 4 — onboard the team. Walk the staff through the new workflow. Set expectations: it will feel slower for two weeks, then noticeably faster.
Our migration offer
If you're currently on GrantHub or were before its sunset, we'll:
- Migrate your data from a GrantHub CSV export (or work directly with you to extract it)
- Waive the $1,500 Pro setup fee
- Give you the first 60 days free on Solo or Pro
- Match your prior GrantHub subscription length for the annual discount
Show us a GrantHub invoice (any year) and we'll apply the migration deal. No questions.
Get on the list
Reserve your migration slot
We're onboarding migrations in batches. Drop your email and we'll reach out before GrantHub's sunset date with a concrete plan.