The right opportunity matters
Not every grant is designed for every business. We compare your industry, location, ownership, project, and stage of growth with the funder's stated priorities before recommending an opportunity.
Funding Research & Grant Writing for Small Businesses
Find the right funding and build a stronger application with clarity.
Research and writing support for small businesses pursuing competitive federal, state, local, and private funding opportunities.
Start With Fit
A focused search saves time and strengthens your application.
Small-business grants are competitive and often tied to a specific purpose. We help separate realistic opportunities from broad claims and dead-end searches.
Funding exists at many levels
A strong search may include federal programs, state and local economic-development initiatives, and private or corporate grant opportunities. The best fit may be close to home rather than in one national database.
Grants are not general financing
Most grants support a defined public purpose, innovation, community benefit, or targeted business activity — not ordinary startup or operating expenses. We help you understand that distinction before you invest in an application.
How We Help
From opportunity search to submission-ready application.
Funding Research & Opportunity Matching
We research federal, state, local, and private funding sources, then screen promising opportunities against your business, project, location, timeline, and funding need.
Eligibility & Readiness Review
Before writing begins, we review the guidelines, required registrations, financial information, business documents, deadlines, and evaluation criteria so you know what is needed and whether to proceed.
Grant Application Writing
We develop clear, funder-aligned narratives that explain the need, proposed work, expected results, organizational capacity, and value of your project while responding directly to the application criteria.
Budget & Submission Support
We help organize the project budget, work plan, attachments, and submission package so the numbers support the narrative and the final application is complete, consistent, and ready on time.
How We Work
Three steps, in order.
Business and project discovery
We learn what your business does, what you want to fund, where the work will happen, your timeline, and the outcomes you expect.
Research and recommendation
We search across public and private sources, assess eligibility and competitiveness, and explain which opportunities are worth pursuing.
Application development
For a selected opportunity, we build the narrative, budget, work plan, and attachments around the funder's requirements and review process.
Why Work With LCF
Careful research. Clear writing. Practical guidance.
Founder LaVette Ford brings over a decade of federal acquisition, grants-management, and compliance experience. That background informs a disciplined approach to reviewing requirements, developing responsive applications, and helping small businesses pursue funding with realistic expectations.