Filing
Form 1023 autopilot
A guided intake turns plain answers about your mission, board and budget into a complete Form 1023 package — Part IV narrative, Part IX three-year budget, and every schedule your facts trigger.
501(c)(3) filing & grant automation
Automate your funding journey.
Filesgood automates 98% of the grant writing and IRS Form 1023 filing process, delivering accurate, compliant documents at a fraction of the traditional cost — so your nonprofit can submit with confidence, without a consulting engagement.
Built for US nonprofits · No card required · One-time price for the 1023
Form 1023 · Draft 398% automated
- Part I — IdentificationDrafted
- Part IV — Narrative of activitiesDrafted
- Part V — CompensationDrafted
- Part IX — Three-year budgetDrafted
- Schedule C — HospitalsNot triggered
Compliance check
Budget total in Part IX does not match the program figures in your narrative.
Part IX line 23 · $184,500 vs. narrative $178,000
92% ready
Illustrative interface preview
- Form 1023
- Form 1023-EZ
- Schedule A–H
- Narrative Part IV
- Budget Part IX
- Conflict-of-interest policy
- Bylaws cross-check
- Foundation LOIs
- Federal grant narratives
- Post-award reporting
- 98%
- of the drafting work automated
- $299
- per month, flat — no hourly retainers
- 26
- IRS schedules & attachments covered
- 1 day
- from intake to a complete first draft
§ 01The funding gap
The paperwork between a mission and its money is where small nonprofits stall.
The filing costs more than the program
Consultant engagements for a 501(c)(3) application commonly run $2,000 to $10,000 — money that was supposed to go to the work itself.
Grant cycles outrun the team
One person is writing every proposal, tracking every deadline and filing every report, usually alongside a different full-time job.
A small error is an expensive delay
A missed schedule, a budget that doesn't reconcile, a narrative that contradicts the bylaws — each one buys months of back-and-forth.
§ 02The platform
Everything between your mission statement and a funded program.
One record of who you are and what you do, drafting and checking every document the IRS and your funders ask for.
- Grants
Grant draft engine
Paste a funder's RFP or guidelines and get a first draft written against their stated rubric — need statement, methodology, evaluation plan and budget justification, in your own approved language.
- Compliance
Compliance guardrails
Every draft is checked against itself: bylaws that contradict your narrative, budget lines that don't total, missing conflict-of-interest language, and schedule triggers you didn't know you hit.
- Reuse
One organizational record
Your mission, programs, leadership, budget and outcomes live in a single record. Every proposal and every form pulls from it — so nothing is retyped and nothing drifts out of date.
- Operations
Deadline & reporting calendar
Submission dates, LOI windows, post-award report deadlines and Form 990 reminders on one timeline, with the documents each one needs already attached.
- Humans
Flat-fee expert review
Want a specialist to read it before you file? Add a fixed-price review pass. It's an option on a document, not an open-ended consulting engagement.
§ 03How it works
From plain answers to a filing-ready package.
- Step 01
Answer the intake
~25 minutes
Plain-language questions about your mission, programs, board and projected budget. No IRS vocabulary required — the form language is our job.
- Step 02
Review the draft
Same day
Your 1023 package or grant proposal comes back complete, with every generated sentence traced to the answer it came from.
- Step 03
Clear the flags
~1 hour
Guardrails surface contradictions, gaps and triggered schedules in a short checklist. Fix them in place; the whole package updates.
- Step 04
File and keep going
Ongoing
Submit with confidence, then reuse the same organizational record for every grant cycle, renewal and report that follows.
§ 04Where Filesgood fits
Three tools, three gaps, one bill you keep paying.
Most nonprofits end up stitching together a writing assistant, a funder database and an hourly specialist. Each covers one slice of the journey and hands the seams back to you.
AI writing copilots
What you get
Fast prose for a proposal you already understand.
Where it stops
They write; they don't check. No IRS filing path, no compliance review, and no memory of what your organization already told a different funder.
Funder databases
What you get
A searchable list of foundations and deadlines.
Where it stops
Discovery stops at the match. The proposal, the budget tables and the reporting that follow are still entirely on you.
Full-service filing firms
What you get
A human who handles your 501(c)(3) application.
Where it stops
Typical engagements run thousands of dollars, move at email speed, and end the day you're approved — right before the grant work starts.
FilesgoodWe built the seams.
- Filing and fundraising in one record, so the 1023 you're approved on becomes the source material for every grant that follows.
- Automated compliance review on every draft, not just automated writing.
- A one-time price for the one-time job, and a flat subscription for the work that actually recurs.
§ 05Pricing
A one-time price for a one-time filing.
Nobody should sign a monthly contract to submit a single form. Pay once to get tax-exempt; subscribe only for the grant work that actually repeats.
1023 Launch
No subscription required$899one-time
Everything you need to prepare and submit your 501(c)(3) application. Pay once — because you file once.
- Guided Form 1023 or 1023-EZ intake
- Part IV narrative and Part IX three-year budget
- All triggered schedules and attachments
- Bylaws + conflict-of-interest policy drafts
- Compliance flag checklist before you file
- Filing-ready package export
Grant Engine
Most nonprofits$299per month
The recurring half of the job: proposals, deadlines and reporting across every grant cycle, for the whole team.
- Unlimited grant proposal drafts
- Rubric-matched writing from funder guidelines
- Shared organizational record and content library
- Deadline, LOI and post-award reporting calendar
- Compliance guardrails on every document
- Unlimited seats — no per-user pricing
Prices shown in USD and exclude the IRS user fee, which is paid directly to the IRS. Checkout is not enabled on this preview site — join the waitlist and we’ll confirm your pricing before anything is charged.
§ 06Voices
Written for the person doing all of it at once.
“We had a 1023 draft the same afternoon we finished intake. The flag list caught two schedules our old template never mentioned.”
A. ReyesExecutive Director, Riverbend Youth Collective “Four grant cycles a year used to mean four rewrites of the same story. Now it's one record and a review pass.”
M. OkaforDevelopment Lead, Coastline Literacy Fund “The quote from our consultant was five figures. This got us filed for a fraction of it, and we still had a specialist read it first.”
J. WhitfieldBoard Treasurer, Harborlight Arts Alliance
Illustrative placeholders — sample organizations, not real customers.
§ 07Questions
Before you commit anything.
Still unsure whether your organization fits? Send us your situation and we’ll tell you honestly.
01Do I have to subscribe just to file my Form 1023?
No. The 1023 is a one-time job, so it has a one-time price. 1023 Launch is a single onboarding payment with no monthly commitment attached. The $299/mo Grant Engine is separate, and only worth it once you're filing grant proposals on a recurring basis.
02What exactly does '98% automated' mean?
It refers to the drafting work: narratives, budget tables, schedules, policies and proposal sections are generated from your intake answers rather than written by hand. The remaining share is yours — reviewing the draft, clearing the compliance flags, and signing and submitting. We don't file on your behalf without your review.
03Is Filesgood a law firm or an accounting firm?
No. Filesgood is document automation software. It prepares filing-ready and funder-ready documents from the information you provide, and it does not provide legal, tax or accounting advice. For complex structures — private foundations, unusual revenue models, prior revocations — have a qualified professional review the package before submission.
04How is this different from a general-purpose AI writing tool?
General writing tools produce prose. Filesgood produces a checked package: it knows which IRS schedules your facts trigger, cross-references your bylaws and budget against your narrative, and reuses one organizational record across every document, so your story stays consistent from your 1023 to your fourth grant report.
05What happens if the IRS sends a follow-up question?
Your intake answers, generated documents and flag history stay in your organizational record, so a response letter starts from the exact language you filed rather than from a blank page. Determination-letter correspondence support is included with 1023 Launch.
06Can more than one person on our team use it?
Yes. Grant Engine includes unlimited seats — a director, a development lead and a board treasurer can work from the same record without per-user fees. That's deliberate: most of our users are small teams where one person wears several hats.
07Do you write grant proposals for us, or do we still do the work?
You bring the facts and the judgment; Filesgood brings the drafting. Expect to spend your time on strategy — which funders to pursue, what to claim, what your program will actually deliver — instead of on formatting budget tables and rewriting the same need statement.
§ 08Get started
Put the paperwork on autopilot.
Join the waitlist for the next onboarding cohort. We’ll send your intake checklist and a walkthrough of how the Form 1023 package comes together — no obligation, no card.