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Grant Opportunity Fit Decision Tree

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Decide quickly whether a grant is worth applying for.

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Help me decide whether to apply for a grant. Funder and program: [FUNDER_AND_PROGRAM]. Guidelines summary: [PASTE_GUIDELINES]. Our organization: [ORGANIZATION_PROFILE]. Proposed project: [PROJECT_SUMMARY]. Our capacity: [CAPACITY].

Walk through this decision tree and answer each question with Yes, No, or Unclear plus the evidence from the guidelines:
1. Eligibility: legal status, geography, budget size, population served. If any is No, stop and say why.
2. Mission fit: do the funder's priorities match our work, in their language?
3. Funding fit: does the award size justify the effort? Calculate the effort-to-award ratio from estimated hours at [HOURLY_VALUE].
4. Timing: can we deliver an excellent application before the deadline?
5. Competition: odds estimate from any data (number of awards, past recipients) or "unknown".
6. Obligations: reporting, matching, restrictions, indirect cost limits.
7. Relationship: prior contact or a program officer to ask.

Provide a recommendation (apply, ask a question first, wait, skip) with reasons, and the three questions to send the funder. Do not guess at facts missing from the guidelines.

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1. Eligibility: legal status (registered charity) Yes; geography (county) Yes; budget size (limit 500k, ours 310k) Yes.
2. Mission fit: funder priority "youth literacy"; our reading program fits. Yes.
3. Funding fit: award 25,000; estimated effort 40 hours at 30 value per hour = 1,200; ratio 4.8%. Acceptable.
4. Timing: deadline in 5 weeks; feasible.
5. Competition: about 12 awards from 150 applicants last year (guideline says) = odds around 8%, low; unknown quality.
6. Obligations: 25% match required (we have 6,000 in-kind), quarterly report.
7. Relationship: no prior contact.
Recommendation: ask a question first. Questions: "Does in-kind volunteer time count as match?" "Are previous winning projects published?"

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