Explainpaper Nonprofit Discount & Pricing

Explainpaper is an AI-powered research assistant that makes complex academic papers accessible by letting you highlight confusing text and receive instant, plain-language explanations from advanced AI models—eliminating hours spent decoding jargon, re-reading sections, and searching for supplementary context. Built for researchers, students, grant writers, and nonprofit professionals who need to understand academic literature quickly, Explainpaper provides instant explanations for any highlighted text, follow-up Q&A to dig deeper into concepts, full paper summaries, math formula and figure explanations, and Zotero library integration—all designed to accelerate literature reviews, strengthen evidence-based proposals, and help users extract actionable insights from dense research papers in minutes instead of days.

Explainpaper's core capabilities make academic research faster and more accessible for users at any expertise level. The highlight-and-explain feature lets you select any confusing sentence, paragraph, or section and instantly receive a clear, plain-language explanation generated by AI—no need to interrupt your reading flow by looking up definitions or searching Google Scholar for context. Follow-up questions allow you to ask "Can you elaborate on this?" or "What's an example of this concept?" and receive contextual answers based on the paper's content—clarifying complex ideas through conversation instead of re-reading multiple times. Full paper summaries provide AI-generated overviews of the entire paper's methodology, findings, and conclusions in 2-3 paragraphs—saving 20-30 minutes per paper during literature reviews when you need to screen dozens of studies. Math formula explanations break down equations step-by-step, explaining what each variable represents and how the formula works in plain language—making quantitative papers accessible even if you're not a statistician. Figure and chart explanations describe what graphs, diagrams, and visualizations show, why they matter, and how they support the paper's arguments. Zotero integration syncs your entire research library so you can access, read, and annotate papers directly in Explainpaper without downloading PDFs separately. Saved highlights and explanations let you bookmark key passages with their explanations for later reference—building a personal knowledge base of understood concepts. Advanced AI models (GPT-4, Claude) on the Pro plan provide more accurate, nuanced explanations compared to basic models, especially for highly technical papers in specialized fields. The free forever plan includes unlimited highlight explanations and follow-up questions using basic AI models—letting small nonprofits and students start using Explainpaper immediately without credit card or subscription.

For nonprofits, Explainpaper addresses the academic research and evidence-gathering challenges faced by organizations that need to stay informed about best practices, program effectiveness studies, and policy research but lack time or specialized training to parse dense academic literature: grant writers can highlight methodology sections in research papers and get instant explanations to accurately cite evidence-based approaches in proposals—strengthening applications without spending hours decoding statistical jargon, program managers can review the latest impact evaluation studies in their field (education, health, environment) and quickly extract key findings to inform strategy—accelerating evidence-based decision-making, policy advocates can analyze peer-reviewed research on social issues and explain complex findings to policymakers or the public in accessible language—building stronger advocacy campaigns grounded in academic evidence, executive directors without PhDs can read technical papers about nonprofit management, fundraising effectiveness, or social innovation and understand advanced concepts through plain-language explanations—staying current with field research without hiring consultants, research coordinators can conduct literature reviews for internal reports or white papers by using full paper summaries to screen 50+ studies per day instead of 5-10—dramatically speeding systematic reviews, communications teams can reference academic studies in blog posts, reports, or donor materials and accurately explain research findings without misinterpreting complex results, students and fellows working at nonprofits can learn from academic papers faster by asking follow-up questions about unfamiliar concepts—building research skills while contributing to organizational knowledge, organizations evaluating their own programs can review similar studies' methodologies and replicate proven measurement approaches by understanding exactly how researchers designed their interventions and analysis—improving internal evaluation quality, and small nonprofits with limited budgets can use the free plan to access unlimited highlight explanations and Q&A for as many papers as needed—making academic research accessible even for organizations without subscription budgets for expensive tools like Scholarcy or Scite.