I could shout from the rooftops my love for this software. It's user-friendly, and allows me to take on more clients by literally being a personal assistant that keeps me in line with little effort on my end. I also love the learning experiences that come with your membership. These are conducted by some incredible people who have been in the grant world for decades. Customer service has always been on top and quit to respond as well. Priceless.

The in-depth customizable search options that are offered. Instrumentl offers, by far, more options than most grant databases on the market. This saves me a ton of time in researching for perfect fit grants.

The price was a bit daunting at the beginning - but that was quickly made up once I got into the software and started using it. I stopped having to use 3 programs to manage a research project. It's truly my one-stop shop.

Instrumental allows is to have all grant information in one location making this easy to use across our team. The software is very user friendly, easy to navigate and ability to customize which allows us to invest our time in our mission.

We would love to be able to look at a master calendar for upcoming submissions that include reporting or tasks. Also a way to search key words with in notes and attachments. We often input pertinent info but have to duplicate it to every year such as contact info, a new foundation email, etc but without remembering which year it was added to we often can’t find it again without a lot of digging.

Instrumentl is an excellent resource for research. They also provide amazing professional development as well. It would be even more impressive if there were a way to connect with potential clients who needed grant research and writing services too.

Instrumentl provides an amazing resource to find both private and federal grant opportunities. I love the "Funder Summary" tabs the most because they summarize lengthy 990 forms into easy to read highlights to find great matches for our clients.

It can be costly for consultants like me to pay for the software monthly, if I am working on writing the grants, as opposed to researching the grants.

I've been very happy with both the product and interactions with the Instrumentl technical team. The application is expensive, but I must say that it has sold itself over the last almost two years with data that I could not generate alone. I do supplement with other smaller, more focused databases but don't have the same success rate or volume of hits with other sources. I like the navigability of the database and enjoy the work of grant research through awarding as a result.

Breadth of data base/number of foundations (over 100k), extensive filter search criteria to highly focus your research, very readable report templates, and easily updatable foundation application fields. For a single nonprofit I can slightly alter search criteria and receive remarkably distinct lists of candidate foundations to explore. The reports I can provide back to Boards and management teams are easily understood by professional not familiar with Instrumentl - a must-have for a grant writer. A final big plus is the depth of data available on each foundation - to be able to fully understand who they fund, what they fund (and what they do not fund), how much they fund w/ ranges, the foundation history and mission. So much value is available from Instrumentl's search engine!

I've only found a few wishes not already met by the Instrumentl technical team. One is simply to be able to print out a calendar once generated for a project. I routinely update calendars for nonprofits and right now I must paste an uneditable calendar into a Word document. Second, it is frustrating at times to be seeking foundations which accept unsolicited applications but be presented with an Instrumentl search which includes foundations which are NOT open to unsolicited applications. It may be a foundation issue, not sure. I will say my list of 'Cons' would have been longer last year, but the Instrumentl technical team is routinely issuing updates to the application's capabilities so some of those earlier wants are now available!

My overall experience is that is easy to learn and maintain, easy to locate grants and the customer service is awesome. They also host training sessions which have been very informative and helpful. They are always willing to help and extremely responsive in getting back with you if you need help.

Instrumentl is very easy to learn and operate. It makes looking for grants easy and keeping track of them even easier. It is also user friendly for users of different generations.

I would like some more sub-categories in "Field of Work" that were more specific to my field. However, I have not had much trouble finding what I need.