$400k → $1.1M
New grant dollars a year · Grant-funded nonprofits
The grant nobody had time to write
Spend your team's time winning grants, not rebuilding reports to keep them.
A composite, built from nonprofits like yours. Not a named client.
- The problem, $400k, New grant dollars a year
- The project, SBK rebuilds prospecting, writing and reporting around one record of your outcomes, so reports draft themselves.
- The outcome, $1.1M, New grant dollars a year
Wednesday afternoon. A $250,000 foundation grant closes Friday. It's a perfect fit. The development director is still building last year's outcome report for another funder, from three spreadsheets that don't agree. She makes the call. The application doesn't go in.
Picture a nonprofit with a $6M budget, mostly grants, and a development team of two. Prospects lived in one person's head. Each application was written from scratch and took three weeks. Program staff tracked outcomes in their own spreadsheets, so every report meant two weeks of reconciling. The team applied for 12 grants a year. It renewed seven in ten, and nobody could say why the others lapsed.
What SBK rebuilt
SBK mapped how a grant is found, won, reported and renewed. The biggest cost was hidden in reports. The rebuild gave the organization one record of its outcomes, logged as the work happens. Reports now draft themselves from that record. Applications start from a library of past wins, not a blank page. New funders are matched every week, and existing funders get updates all year.
What moved
The team applied for 30 grants a year instead of 12. Reports took two days, not ten. Nine in ten grants renewed. New grant dollars rose from $400k a year to $1.1M. It was the same team of two.
| Measure | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Grants applied for a year | 12 | 30 |
| Grants renewed | 70% | 90% |
| Days to write a report | 10 | 2 |
| New grant dollars a year | $400k | $1.1M |
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