The Instrumentl University Plan is designed for higher education institutions that need to coordinate grant funding discovery and collaboration across multiple departments, faculty members, and research offices.

Instrumentl helps universities find research funding, track grant opportunities, and collaborate across campus—supporting both centralized research offices and faculty-led grant seeking.

Institutions that manage grant funding across multiple departments or teams may benefit from the University Plan.

The University Plan supports institutions that manage grant activity across multiple stakeholders and departments. Some common examples of customer profiles who subscribe to the University Plan include:

Universities often manage funding across multiple teams, research initiatives and academic departments. Instrumentl helps institutions organize funding discovery and coordinate grant strategy and proposal development across these stakeholders. Many universities use Instrumentl to:

Instrumentl offers flexible access models depending on how institutions want to manage grant discovery across campus.

Standard institutional access is commonly used by central research offices or select departments. This model allows teams to:

Some universities enable campus-wide access, allowing faculty and staff across the institution to use Instrumentl. With campus-wide access:

This structure helps:

Faculty and staff can sign up and log in using their university email credentials through Single Sign-On (SSO). This provides secure access and simplifies onboarding for large groups of users within the same institution.

The University Plan provides access to our expanded database, which includes funding opportunities for higher education institutions, such as grants designed specifically for:

Users can also filter for opportunities designed for early-career researchers and faculty.

This expanded coverage helps universities discover opportunities that may not typically appear in nonprofit-focused grant searches.

The University Plan supports sub-folders, which help institutions organize funding searches (i.e., projects) across multiple colleges, departments and research areas.

Universities often pursue grants simultaneously across many programs and faculty research groups. Sub-folders allow teams to group related projects under a single department, college, or office. Here's an example structure:

College of Education

School of Public Health

Central Research Office

This structure allows central offices—such as Sponsored Programs or Corporate & Foundation Relations teams—to maintain visibility across institutional funding activity while departments and faculty manage their own searches

If your institution would like to enable sub-folders, please contact your Instrumentl Customer Success Manager or email hello@instrumentl.com.

Institutions can configure user permissions and project sharing settings to determine how projects are visible across teams.

Depending on how permissions are set, central research offices may be able to:

University accounts can also access many of the platform features available across other Instrumentl plans, depending on the organization’s configuration.

These features may include:

Curious about the University Plan or interested in a demo? Send us a message via the chat bubble when you're logged in to your account, or email us at hello@instrumentl.com.