Unlock The Funding You Deserve

A grant consultant acts as a funding strategist, proposal expert, and time saver – helping you win more grants, avoid costly mistakes, and focus your internal staff on mission delivery rather than wrestling with complex grant applications. 

We have secured more than $80 million in competitive grants from federal agencies, major foundations, state and county departments, cities, school districts, corporate philanthropies, civic groups, managed care plans, and other regional and national grantmaking agencies. 

We have written winning proposals on a wide array of social issues, including homelessness prevention, transitional housing, human trafficking prevention/intervention, juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention, workforce development, alternative dispute resolution, gang prevention/intervention, fair housing, behavioral health, domestic violence intervention, holistic health care, and child abuse prevention/intervention. We have written extensively on at-risk youth and families, low-income families, former foster care and transitional age youth (TAY), justice involved youth and adults, and human trafficking victims.

No, all services are provided remotely. Communication takes place through email, phone, and virtual meeting platforms.  

Yes! It’s our goal to improve the grant-readiness and funding success of clients at all stages of organizational development, from emerging startups and pilot programs to established organizations.    

It can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, depending on the type and complexity of the grant proposal.     

It’s a partnership: we bring grants expertise, writing skill, funder insight, and objectivity; your team brings deep program knowledge, organizational authenticity, data, and decision-making authority. We’ll work with the staff that you designate to gather the information we need to draft the requested product(s), move through one or more rounds of staff review, and finalize the product(s). Communication may take place through a combination of phone calls, email correspondence, and/or virtual meeting(s) – whatever works best for your specific project.    

It depends on the nature of your project (e.g. editing services vs. grant writing services). We’ll identify a list of needs at the project outset and come back with more specific questions later in the process as we work to clarify and polish content. The golden rule: The more accurate, detailed, and organized information you provide upfront, the stronger and faster the final proposal will be. Grant consultants can fill gaps with research and creative framing, but we rely on you for the authentic voice, internal data, and organizational truth.     

We meet virtually with your project team as needed to complete the project. We do not make presentations to boards or funders; however, you might choose to include a board member on your project team or have them attend virtual meetings and relay information back to the full board.     

Pricing is based on the estimated number of work hours required, the complexity of the project, and the turnaround time for project completion.  Average cost ranges are provided on our Services page; however, your final project cost will be determined based on your initial consultation.     

We charge the same consulting rate for both services. However, you can expect to pay substantially less for an editing project as fewer work hours are required.      

No. It’s considered unethical by the leading professional associations in the field (Grant Professionals Association, Association of Proposal Management Professionals, and others) to use contingency-based fee structures. Additionally, many funders — especially federal agencies (NIH, NSF, DOE, HUD, etc.), large national foundations, and most state agencies — state in their guidelines that they will not fund proposals if the grant writer or consultant is being paid a percentage of the award. Some even require certification that no contingency fees were used. In federal grants, paying a percentage can violate cost principles under 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Guidance) and be considered an unallowable cost or improper incentive. It can trigger audits, disallowed costs, or even debarment in extreme cases.     

Our current 5-year success rate is 74% (62 grants awarded of 84 submitted), securing $44.6 million.  

No reputable grant consultant can or will guarantee funding. Funders evaluate proposals based on many factors outside of anyone’s control, including how many other strong applications they receive, the available budget for that funding cycle, reviewers’ subjective opinions, geographic quotas, and shifting political or strategic priorities. Even the best-written proposal can lose for reasons no one could predict in advance. 

Currently, we only work with organizations and programs that are located within the United States.  

Not yet, but we’re working on it! We hope to add this option to our service portfolio in late 2026.   

This is currently outside of our service scope, but we hope to offer this type of support in the future!