Grant Writing & Management
We find the funding, write the proposal, and stay through the reporting. Over $25 million secured for districts, nonprofits, and agencies that mostly did not have a grants office of their own.
Secured for districts, nonprofits, and agencies
Awarded vendor. Woman-owned, Raleigh NC
Most Organizations Lose Grants Before They Ever Write One
Not because the work is not fundable. Because nobody has the eight uninterrupted hours a competitive narrative takes, the funder research is scattered across three browser tabs, and the last award is sitting in a folder nobody has opened since the reporting deadline.
We have been on both sides of that. Our founder ran the grants, research, and development office for a Title I district before starting this firm; our team has sat on review panels and written the narratives that got scored. We know what a reviewer is actually looking for on page four, and we know what happens after the award lands.
Four Places We Come In
You can hire us for one of these or all four.
Funder Research
We build you a ranked, sourced list of funders that actually match your mission, budget size, and geography: federal, state, foundation, and corporate. Not a database export. A shortlist you can act on, with deadlines, average award sizes, and a note on why each one fits.
Proposal Development
We write the narrative, build the logic model, assemble the budget and budget justification, and manage the submission portal. You review drafts; you do not write them. We handle Grants.gov, state portals, and foundation systems.
Post-Award Management
Award letters create obligations. We set up the tracking, build the reporting calendar, keep the financial and programmatic documentation aligned, and write the interim and final reports so the next renewal is not a scramble.
Capacity Building
If the goal is to stop outsourcing this, we train your team and leave the systems behind: templates, funder pipeline, internal review process, and a calendar your staff can actually run.
Different Rules, Same Discipline
School Districts and Charter Schools
Title programs, competitive federal grants, state discretionary funds, and the private foundations that fund the things federal money will not. We know the compliance environment because we have been audited in it.
Nonprofits
Small shops with no development staff and mid-size organizations trying to move from a string of $10K awards to something that funds a position for three years. We help with both.
Government Agencies and Municipalities
Competitive federal and state programs where the narrative matters as much as the match, plus the reporting burden that follows.
Higher Education
Sponsored programs support, proposal review, and narrative development for faculty and research offices.
What This Looks Like in Practice
Two engagements, two very different kinds of organization.
Global Scholars Academy
Charter school · Durham, NC
School Safety and Operating Funding
A small charter school with no development office and real, urgent safety needs. We ran the whole cycle: needs assessment, problem statement, logic model, compliant budget, submission. Then we built the post-award monitoring package so the awards could actually be spent and reported on.
Across 2022 to 2025 that became a run of School Safety Grant awards, starting at $328,332 and reaching $1.5 million in total funding in under three years. The money paid for safety personnel, staff training, and the reporting systems that keep it all compliant.
Secured in under three years
Award rate on the NC School Safety Grant
Copper Circle
Nonprofit · Triangle, NC
Grant Strategy, Research, and Fundraising
A volunteer-led Triangle nonprofit that houses families leaving homelessness and funds scholarships for people building careers in rental housing. Two strong programs, no development staff, and no funding strategy underneath either one.
We built the three-year strategic plan and the funding model that has to hold it up: a sourced grant pipeline with owners and deadlines, a standing fundraising and grant taskforce, impact measurement so the numbers exist before a funder asks for them, and board alignment sessions to get everyone behind the same plan. Individual giving went from $600 across all of 2025 to $7,800 in the first six months of 2026, and the organization closed that half-year in the black.
In August 2026 their Reverse Trade Show grossed $36,985, the largest fundraising event in the organization's history, on flat participation fees. The growth came from the parts nobody had worked before: a new sponsorship tier and a raffle that went from $1,065 to $2,735. Every registered supplier turned up and all but one management company: 117 people from 45 companies, the best attendance the event has had.
Growth in individual giving
Largest fundraising event in their history
Three Ways In
Nonprofits and businesses usually just email us. We scope it and send a simple agreement, no bid required. Districts and agencies most often engage us through a purchasing cooperative, which skips the solicitation entirely because the contract has already been competitively awarded. And we respond to RFPs.
TIPS Contract 260601
Consulting and Other Related Services. Members can purchase directly against this contract, no solicitation required.
Grant Readiness Checklist
The eleven things a funder expects you to already have in place. Work through it before you write anything.
Get the ChecklistTell Us What You Are Trying to Fund
Half an hour, no cost, no pitch deck. Bring the idea and your rough budget. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and point you somewhere better.