Operations for Foundations

Your grant cycles shouldn't depend on one person's memory.

I built a grant matching engine that surfaces funders from IRS 990 data. I understand grantmaking workflows, donor stewardship cycles, and the operational overhead that small foundations carry.

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Sound Familiar?

The operational overhead is crowding out the mission work.

Grant cycle tracking lives in spreadsheets — review dates, decision timelines, and follow-ups are easy to miss.
Donor stewardship depends on whoever remembers, not on a system that prompts the right action at the right time.
Board reporting is a manual compilation project every quarter, pulling from multiple disconnected sources.
Your program officer holds most of the institutional knowledge — and that's a single point of failure.
You've outgrown your current tools but you're not big enough to justify enterprise grantmaking software.

990 data

Grant Matching

Built an engine that surfaces funders from public IRS data

4 hrs → 1 click

Board Reporting

Automated packet generation from multiple data sources

15+ years

Operations Experience

From supply chain to nonprofit to custom system design

How It Works

Start with a conversation. Go from there.

Discovery Call

30 minutes, free. You tell me how work actually moves through your organization. I listen for the patterns — where things get stuck, duplicated, or dependent on one person's memory. You'll walk away with initial observations whether or not we work together.

Workflow Assessment

If a deeper look makes sense, we do a full assessment. 60-minute deep-dive, written report with bottleneck analysis and prioritized recommendations, plus a walkthrough call. $750 flat. The deliverable is yours — no strings.

Groundwork

If your assessment reveals a systems gap, I design and build the fix. Process redesign, custom tools, automation — whatever the operation actually needs. The system, the code, and the documentation are yours. You operate it. No vendor lock-in, no recurring dependency on me.

Your foundation's operations should be as structured as your grantmaking.

30 minutes. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest look at what's going on and whether I can help.

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Or email me directly: heath@heathjohnson.co