Grants and institutional giving

Stop chasing grants. Build a grants engine.

Most nonprofits run their grant program out of one person's inbox and a spreadsheet that is already weeks out of date. We build you a real pipeline of vetted funder matches we have already made contact with, a vetted watchlist behind them, a workflow your whole team can run, and a live Command Center you can track and your ED can hand to the board.

Two ways

We build the engine, or we run it for you.

Same engine either way. The difference is who manages the engine once it is running.

Option one, the build

Grant Engine

We build the infrastructure, train your team, and hand it over. You run it from there.

Grant portfolio audit

Grants you have won, lost, and let lapse. What has worked, and where the gaps are.

Priority funder matches

Eligibility confirmed, cycle and deadline known, and outreach made to the program officer where it helps. Your writing time goes to funders who have already shown interest.

Vetted watchlist

A screened secondary pipeline. Mission, geography, size, and recent giving pattern all checked for fit.

Workflow system setup

We configure the tool you already use, or stand up a new one if you have nothing in place. Templates, task structure, and team training included.

Grant Command Center

A live, board ready dashboard. Pipeline by stage, awarded to date, goal gap, win rate, deadline tracker. Your ED can open it in any board meeting without prep.

Training and handoff

Your team owns it when we are done. Documentation, recorded walkthroughs, and a check in later to make sure it stuck.

Best for

You already have someone writing grants, an ED, a development director, a part time writer, but no real pipeline, no shared workflow, and no good way to show the board where things stand.

Option two, we build and run it

Grant Engine Live

Your fractional grants team. We run the engine, you run the mission.

Everything in Grant Engine, plus

Ongoing funder scouting

Regular watchlist refresh and new opportunities surfaced as they open. The pipeline never goes stale.

Full submission service

We draft, route for your internal review, incorporate feedback, and submit. Letters of inquiry through full proposals.

Funder relationships kept warm

Check in calls, year end updates, and invitation outreach between cycles.

Command Center upkeep

Always current, always board ready, updated right after any pipeline change.

Standing strategy call

Regular time with your ED or development lead for pipeline review, prioritization, and funder strategy.

Stewardship and reporting

Reporting on awarded grants and custom funder research, added when you need it.

Best for

You do not have dedicated grants staff, or your ED is writing applications between everything else they already do. You want grants handled, not just supported.

What we bring

Why this is built differently.

Systems, not lists

Databases sell lists. We deliver working infrastructure, and when we leave, the system stays.

We knock on doors

You do not get a stack of funders to chase cold. Priority matches come with outreach already made, and the secondary pipeline is prequalified for fit.

Built by operators

Designed by people who have run development inside a nonprofit. Every deliverable has to answer whether it actually saves you time while producing results.

Your next step

Thirty minutes. We will tell you which one fits.

A free call. We walk through your current grants program, what is working, and which option makes sense for where you are.