Services
Funding Strategy
A 12–18 month roadmap built around your organization — the right grants to pursue, the right relationships to build, and the right moves to make in the right order.
A plan, not a prayer.
Most nonprofits approach funding reactively — scanning for open grants, writing proposals on deadline, and hoping something lands. It works sometimes. But it's exhausting, it's unpredictable, and it leaves a lot of money on the table.
Funding strategy is the opposite of that. It starts with a clear-eyed look at your organization — your mission, your track record, your capacity, and your relationships — and builds outward from there. Which funders are actually a fit? Which strategies have the highest likelihood of success given where you are right now? What should you do first, second, and third to get the best return on the time and energy you put in?
The result is a 12–18 month roadmap that tells you exactly where to focus, who to contact, and what to do — so you're not guessing, you're executing.
What's included
Funding Landscape Assessment
We start by taking stock of where you are — what's coming in, what's restricted, what's unrestricted, and where the gaps are. We look at your current funder relationships, your grant history, and your organizational capacity. No judgment. Just a clear picture of what we're working with.
Grant Opportunity Mapping
Not every grant is worth your time. We research the funding landscape specific to your mission, geography, and population served — and identify the opportunities with the highest likelihood of success and the best return on the effort it takes to pursue them.
Funder Relationship Strategy
Grants don't come from portals — they come from relationships. We help you identify the right program officers, intermediaries, and connectors to get on the radar of, and map out how to build those relationships in a way that feels authentic rather than transactional.
Revenue Diversification Planning
Grants alone are rarely a sustainable funding model. We look at the full picture — individual donors, earned income, corporate partnerships, government contracts — and help you figure out which mix makes sense for your mission, your team, and your stage of growth.
12–18 Month Funding Roadmap
Everything comes together in a concrete, prioritized roadmap. Which grants to apply for and when. Which relationships to cultivate and how. Which strategies to pursue in what order. A document you can actually use — not a report that sits in a folder.
Ongoing Strategy Support
The roadmap is a starting point, not a finish line. We offer ongoing support to help you stay on track, adjust as things change, and think through decisions as they come up — so you always have a thought partner in your corner.
How it works.
Discovery conversation
We start with a real conversation about your organization — your mission, your funding history, your goals, and the challenges you're running into. This isn't an intake form. It's the foundation everything else is built on.
Assessment & research
We dig into your current funding landscape and research the opportunity space specific to your work. What's out there, what's a fit, and what's realistically within reach given where your organization is right now.
Strategy development
We build your roadmap — a prioritized, sequenced plan that tells you exactly where to focus your energy over the next 12–18 months for the highest likelihood of success and the best return on investment.
Execution & support
We don't hand you a plan and disappear. We stay in it with you — whether that means writing grants, coaching you through funder conversations, or adjusting the strategy as things evolve.
Let's build your roadmap.
If you're tired of chasing grants and ready to build a real funding strategy, let's talk.
Ready to build your roadmap?
Book a free 30-minute intro call. We'll talk through where your organization is, what's realistic, and whether working together makes sense.
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