Grant reviewers must apply detailed criteria to application forms, budgets, and supporting documents while producing assessments that colleagues can inspect.
We present SAGE, Schema-Guided Aspect-Based Grant Evaluation, a system that translates a grant rubric into structured checks and links its judgements to evidence from the application package.
We evaluate SAGE in two stages on 35 nonprofit grant applications.
A post-factum comparison with 105 reviews from the original competition shows fair ordinal agreement (kappa = 0.29).
The foundation then conducted a criterion-level re-review after inspecting SAGE, producing 202 assessments.
In this assisted round, SAGE reached kappa = 0.58 and outperformed a one-prompt-per-criterion baseline (kappa = 0.33 on the common subset), with higher rank correlation and lower error.
A claim-level audit further identifies confirmed, disputed, and unaddressed parts of the structured draft.
SAGE operationalizes the review methodology by producing a detailed, evidence-linked, and auditable draft for expert correction.