Frequently Asked Questions

The Atlas Opportunity Score is an opportunity-level score. Its purpose is to help visitors quickly understand how attractive, actionable, and strategically useful a grant appears in general. It can reflect factors such as funding potential, breadth of allowable uses, timing, application burden, healthcare relevance, and whether the opportunity is practical to pursue.

It does not mean that every organization is a 95/100 fit for that grant. Think of it as a way to prioritize opportunities before evaluating a specific applicant.

Your Organization Fit Score answers the applicant-specific question: “How well does this exact grant fit our organization?”

Atlas considers your organization type, geography, project goals, eligibility, funding needs, deadline readiness, allowable uses, partnership requirements, and other grant-specific factors. This score is designed to help you decide whether the opportunity deserves your team's time.

They serve two different stages of the decision process. The public score helps people sort and discover strong opportunities. The Organization Fit Score helps a specific healthcare organization decide whether it should actually pursue one.

No. Neither score is a prediction or guarantee of an award. Grant decisions are made by the funding organization and can depend on competition, scoring, available funds, applicant quality, compliance, and factors outside Atlas's control. Atlas scores are decision-support tools.

Yes. A grant may be excellent overall but a poor match for a particular applicant because of geography, applicant type, project scope, timing, match requirements, or allowable-cost restrictions. The reverse can also happen: a moderately attractive opportunity may be an exceptional fit for one particular organization.

Atlas reviews the grant in the context of your organization and project. That analysis can identify exact eligibility issues, project alignment, funding potential, timing risks, and next steps. If the opportunity looks strong, Atlas can then help organize the work required to pursue it.

Atlas is designed to take as much of the grant-discovery and grant-preparation burden off your team as possible. Depending on the opportunity, Atlas can help you:

• Continuously search for healthcare funding opportunities across federal, state, local, foundation, health-plan, rural-health, school-health, and other credible sources.
• Verify deadlines, funding amounts, eligibility, allowable uses, match requirements, application rules, and official source documents.
• Distinguish total program funding from the amount an individual applicant may actually be able to request.
• Evaluate the overall strength and actionability of an opportunity with an Atlas Opportunity Score.
• Analyze how well a specific grant fits your organization, location, services, project goals, timing, and funding needs.
• Identify practical project concepts and allowable uses for technology, telehealth, remote patient monitoring, school-based care, mobile care, workforce, behavioral health, maternal health, chronic care, infrastructure, and other eligible needs.
• Build applicant-specific grant strategies based on your organization's actual services, locations, populations, and priorities.
• Create preliminary implementation plans, project scopes, timelines, milestones, performance measures, and evaluation frameworks.
• Develop detailed grant budgets and budget narratives using the funder's rules and official templates when required.
• Draft application narratives, executive summaries, needs statements, project descriptions, sustainability plans, work plans, and other required responses.
• Prepare supporting exhibits, letters of intent, letters of support, partner documents, checklists, and submission-ready materials when appropriate.
• Identify exactly what information, signatures, financial documents, certifications, or applicant-controlled materials are still needed from your team.
• Review the package for completeness, consistency, formatting, file integrity, and grant-specific requirements before submission.
• Provide clear, step-by-step guidance showing what to sign, attach, upload, and submit.
• Monitor important opportunities for amendments, deadline changes, eligibility updates, and other material developments.

The goal is simple: help your team move from "we found a grant" to "we have a credible plan and a submission-ready package" with far less internal workload.

Depending on the opportunity, Atlas can assist with eligibility analysis, application narratives, response books, budgets, budget narratives, work plans, evaluation plans, supporting exhibits, partner letters, checklists, submission packages, and other grant-specific materials.

Atlas can prepare and organize submission-ready materials, but the applicant organization generally remains responsible for approvals, certifications, signatures, portal credentials, and final submission unless a different arrangement is expressly established.

Atlas can often begin with public information and the grant solicitation itself. To finalize a submission, organizations may need to provide items that cannot be safely inferred, such as audited financials, legal identifiers, authorized-signatory information, internal budgets, staffing details, prior grant material, partner commitments, certifications, or other applicant-controlled information.

Yes. You can request a Fit Score for a grant or funding opportunity you already have in mind. Include the grant name or source when you submit your request so Atlas can evaluate it.

No. Atlas is designed for a broad range of healthcare and health-serving organizations, including hospitals, critical access hospitals, FQHCs, community health centers, rural health clinics, health systems, behavioral health organizations, EMS, public health agencies, schools and school-based health programs, pediatric and maternal-health organizations, and other eligible healthcare entities.

Yes, particularly when the funding is related to healthcare, school-based health, pediatric care, behavioral health, nursing, telehealth, rural access, special populations, or healthcare partnerships serving students.