Almanac Grant Partners.
A grant management firm built around a documented process and a maintained calendar.
Why the firm exists.
Established nonprofits tend to run their grant programs on residual capacity. The work lands on whoever has time, which means it happens in bursts, follows the funders somebody already knows, and stops entirely when the person carrying it leaves.
The conventional fix is to hire a grants manager. For a lot of organizations that's either more role than they can keep busy or more cost than they can justify — and it recreates the same single-point-of-failure problem the moment that person moves on.
Almanac exists to make the grant function something an organization can buy rather than build: continuous, documented, and not dependent on one person's availability.
How we operate.
Our compensation is agreed in advance and isn't tied to whether a funder approves an application. Our advice about which opportunities to pursue isn't shaped by our own incentives.
Every engagement runs on the same process, written down. It's what makes the work consistent and what makes it possible to hand off.
We won't write a claim your data doesn't support. We only make claims your organization can support.
If an opportunity is a long shot, we'll say so before you spend forty hours on it.
Built to operate as a function, not a freelancer.
Almanac is built around a maintained calendar, a documented process, defined responsibilities and a repeatable monthly rhythm.
That structure is deliberate. A grant function that lives in one person's memory is only as reliable as that person's week. Ours is designed so the work continues on the same terms — the same calendar, the same process, the same reporting — regardless of who is carrying it on any given day.