Grant strategy, proposals and compliance
Win the grant.
Keep the grant.
GrantPathways Funding Solutions helps nonprofits, local governments and housing authorities win public funding and manage it so it holds up under review.
Complex requirements. Clear direction. Community purpose.
Who we work with
Organizations that spend public money in public view
Nonprofits
Housing, human services and community development organizations that need funding and the systems to manage it.
Cities and counties
Local governments applying to state and federal programs, or recovering from a hard monitoring visit.
Housing authorities
Public and tribal housing authorities working with HUD programs and the reporting that comes with them.
State agencies
Pass-through agencies that have to monitor the subrecipients they fund.
How a grant actually runs
Six stages, and we work in all of them
Many grant writers stop at submission. The award letter is the midpoint, so we stay through the part that gets audited.
- 01
Find
The funding announcementWe look for opportunities that fit your mission and your capacity, and we tell you which ones to skip.
- 02
Prepare
Registrations and policiesSAM.gov, board documents, and the written procedures a funder expects to see before it sends money.
- 03
Apply
Narrative, budget and formsAn application whose narrative and budget tell the same story, submitted complete and on time.
- 04
Award
The notice of awardWe read the terms and conditions with you and set up tracking before the first dollar moves.
- 05
Manage
Drawdowns and reportsPayment requests, financial and performance reports, and subrecipient monitoring, all on schedule.
- 06
Close
Final reports and recordsCloseout finished inside the deadline, with files an auditor can follow without calling you.
Why us
We have sat on the funder's side of the table
Before she wrote proposals, our founder processed awards. Nicole Jones managed federal recovery funds at the Georgia Governor's Office of Planning and Budget and served as a contract Grant Management Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
So we write applications the way they are reviewed, and we set up awards the way they are monitored.
From the other chair, that meant
- Checking applications for compliance before award
- Negotiating budgets and award terms
- Reviewing financial and performance reports
- Monitoring recipients and approving drawdowns
- Closing awards out
Housing for women
Room to rebuild
Stefanie Thomson leads our work with organizations that house women in recovery and women returning home after incarceration.
See this workEvery woman deserves a future bigger than her hardest chapter.
A deadline, a finding, or an empty pipeline?
Tell us which one. The first call is about fit, including whether the grant is worth pursuing at all.