Audit-ready any day. Every funder billed correctly. For a fraction of a controller.

Grant-compliant finance for arts & culture nonprofits that keep winning grants faster than the back office can absorb them.

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One operator. Three founding slots this year. Two remain.

The problem nobody names

Every grant you win makes your books harder to keep.

Every funder brings its own rules — billing basis, documentation, deadlines, disallowed costs. Every rule adds hours. The hours come out of the mission.

So you rebuild the same report five ways, invoice late because you're scared to bill wrong, run payroll on hope, and spend three weeks a year doing archaeology for the audit. Not because you're bad at this — because you were never supposed to be doing it. You started this to make art.

Success is what breaks the spreadsheet. This service exists so that when you win your next grant, it's just good news.

What you get

Three certainties.

Payroll certainty

An eight-week cash runway tying every payroll date to expected grant receipts. You know it clears — not hope, know.

Funder certainty

Every funder invoiced on time, to its own rules, human-approved. The money comes back on schedule. Nothing owed to you gets forgotten.

Audit certainty

The auditor's request list maintained year-round, not rebuilt annually. Audit season becomes handing over a binder that already exists.

How it works

Install once. Operate monthly.

Everything is a document you can hold, show your board, or hand an auditor. It all lives in your accounts and belongs to you.

Install

One-time

Your finance system, built and documented — ending with the first clean close of your organization's life.

  • The Grant Rulebook — every funder's rules, one page each
  • A cost-allocation methodology, written and auditor-ready
  • A clean chart of accounts built for grant tracking
  • The compliance calendar — every deadline, every funder, one view
  • The system map — how your money actually moves, on one page
  • The baseline close — your first clean monthly close, dated, in writing
  • Week 2: the answer to "how much of our cash is actually ours to spend"

Operate

Monthly

The close, run for you, every month — so the system gets better with every grant instead of worse.

  • Every funder invoiced on time, to its own rulebook — human-approved, always
  • The Board Page — one page, plain language, same format every month
  • Cash & payroll runway, always current
  • Audit-ready workpapers maintained as we go
  • An open-items register — nothing owed to your organization gets dropped

Your part of onboarding: read access to the books, copies of your grant agreements, and one kickoff hour. If you can forward PDFs, you can onboard.

The guarantee

You shouldn't have to take a stranger's word for it.

We're early, and we won't pretend otherwise. No wall of testimonials — instead, real work you can inspect before you commit, and a guarantee with teeth:

Two-sided

Your first clean monthly close, or the install is free.

And once we're operating: if a funder invoice we prepare goes out late or out of compliance with its rulebook, that month is free. Bounded, provable, in writing.

This system runs a real multi-grant arts nonprofit's finances every month — including county cost-reimbursement contracts under active fiscal monitoring. You'll be a founding client, at a founding rate, with an obsessive level of attention precisely because you're early.

Fit

Built for a specific organization.

This is for you if

  • Arts & culture nonprofit, roughly $250K–$1M budget
  • Three or more funding streams, and growing
  • Finance is run by the ED at night, a part-time bookkeeper, or a board treasurer
  • You've never had a clean close — and suspect that's not normal

Not for

  • Organizations with a full-time finance director
  • Orgs winding down or in crisis triage
  • First-grant startups — start with the free teardown below
Free — no call, no pitch

The Grant Rulebook Teardown.

Send one grant agreement. In 48 hours you get back its one-page rulebook.

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Email us one grant agreement — the funder whose rules scare you most.

02

Within 48 hours: its billing basis, the documentation you must keep, disallowed costs, deadlines — and the three most common ways organizations get burned by this exact type of contract.

03

That's it. The rulebook is yours either way. If it's useful, imagine one for every funder you have.

Send a grant agreement

Five teardowns a month. Your documents stay private — read by one person, stored nowhere else, deleted on request.