Mecklenburg County Commission agenda, August 12, item 7c
…authorizes continuation of the façade improvement fund at a ceiling of $25,000 per business for corridor-adjacent properties…
Found in 2 sourcesNo application page
The funding exists. We look where nobody else does.
Funding for small businesses gets announced once, in a county agenda, a utility plan, an agency PDF, a chamber email, and then quietly expires. Tell us where your business is and what you do. Boonly searches those places and brings back what's worth checking.
Where should we look?
Free to run. $19/month to unlock every source and keep the market watched. Built from a community of 6,000+ business owners searching for better funding opportunities.
Four things we pulled out of public documents last week:
Charlotte Water conservation plan, page 3
…commercial customers may request a retrofit assessment; rebates up to $18,000 are available upon verified reduction…
Found in 1 sourceBuried three clicks deep
County fire marshal safety bulletin, spring issue
…the office will fund hood suppression upgrades up to $8,000 for qualifying commercial kitchens…
Found in 1 sourceNot indexed anywhere
Regional chamber member email, September 2
…applications open for the Main Street micro-award, $2,500 unrestricted, roughly 400 words to apply…
Email onlyCloses October 9
Most of it is not called a grant
Owners search for grants, find the same four national databases everyone else uses, and never learn that the easier money sits under different words.
Grants
Money you apply for and don't repay. Slower, larger, more competition.
Reimbursements
You spend first and get paid back. Training, trade shows, equipment.
Rebates
Utility and municipal programs. Near-automatic if the purchase qualifies.
Incentives & credits
Offsets tied to payroll, apprenticeships, R&D or your address.
Cash awards
Contests and industry prizes. Short applications, rarely listed anywhere.
Where we actually look
Not grants.gov. Not the aggregators your competitors already subscribe to. These are the sources that publish once and never resurface.
County commission and city council agendas
Utility conservation and efficiency plans
Fire marshal and health department bulletins
State agency PDF archives
Chamber and trade association member emails
Economic development board minutes
Private foundations with no public website
Workforce board and community college programs
And where we don't
These are the databases everyone already searched. If a program only appears here, it is not a find. It is a listing, and it has four hundred applicants.
How the membership works
Tell us your market
Two questions. Where the business is, and what it does. That is the whole setup.
We scan it and show you what we dug up
Every find comes with the document it came from and the passage that matters, so you can judge it yourself.
And we keep looking
Boonly rescans your market every week and tells you when something new surfaces.
A find everyone already knows isn't a find
Every listing carries how few places online mention it. Hidden Gems collects the quietest ones: the programs with no application page and no listing anywhere. Smaller amounts, far better odds.
See this week's gemsIndustrial water reuse retrofit rebate
Hidden gemBuried on page 3 of a utility conservation plan. No application page exists, so you email the program manager.
Mentioned in one place onlineCeiling $18,000
Restaurant fire suppression upgrade fund
Hidden gemFound in a fire marshal newsletter PDF. Not indexed by any grant database.
PDF only, not indexed anywhereCeiling $8,000
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- Every find, with the document it came from
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- Matched against your business, not a generic list
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