2
Went out this month
Letters of inquiry and proposals submitted to funders.
Grant Pipeline Report
July 2026
Riverbend Family Services
July was the first full month of pipeline work. Two letters of inquiry went out, to the Miami Valley Community Trust for $40,000 and to the Dayton Regional Foundation for $25,000, both for Home Stable. That puts $65,000 in front of funders, with decisions expected between late September and mid October. Two more LOIs are drafted or drafting for August deadlines. Nothing has been decided yet, and nothing should be expected to be decided yet: on the cycles these funders publish, the earliest realistic answer is late September. The honest read on the month is that the pipeline was built and the first requests are in, which is what month one looks like.
$65,000
Requested, not awarded
2 requests sitting with funders, awaiting a decision.
None due
Deadlines met
Every funder deadline that came due this month.
15.5
Hours of work
Research, writing, verification and reporting, itemised in section 6.
Dollar figures on this page are amounts requested from funders. No award has been made against any of them. Nomar Grants does not predict, project or guarantee funding outcomes.
01Submitted this month
| Funder | Type | Submitted | Decision expected | Amount requested |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Valley Community TrustHome Stable | LOI | 16 Jul 2026 | 15 Oct 2026 | $40,000 |
| Dayton Regional FoundationHome Stable | LOI | 24 Jul 2026 | 30 Sep 2026 | $25,000 |
02Waiting on a decision
| Funder | Submitted | Decision expected | Amount requested |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton Regional FoundationRenewal request. Prior grant closed clean in 2025. | 24 Jul 2026 | 30 Sep 202661 days from today | $25,000 |
| Miami Valley Community TrustAsk built on the FY25 average of 1650 per family across 20 families. | 16 Jul 2026 | 15 Oct 202676 days from today | $40,000 |
Total with funders: $65,000 across 2 requests. Requested, not awarded.
03Coming up in the next 60 days
| Deadline | Funder and next step | Type | Owner | Planned ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Aug 2026 | Great Lakes Grocers Community FundClient to confirm food-pantry unit counts for FY25. | LOI | Riverbend | $12,000 |
04The funder pipeline
Fit is scored out of 20 across cause, geography, grant size and how open the funder is to a request like ours. Every deadline is checked against the funder's own published page, never an aggregator, and the date it was last checked is shown. Anything checked more than 30 days ago is treated as unverified and is re-checked before it is acted on.
| Funder | Fit | Stage | Deadline | Evidence | Planned ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Valley Community TrustAsk built on the FY25 average of 1650 per family across 20 families. | 20/20 | Submitted | 15 Sep 2026 | Funder guidelinesVerified 3 days ago | $40,000 |
| Dayton Regional FoundationRenewal request. Prior grant closed clean in 2025. | 19/20 | Submitted | 1 Aug 2026 | Funder guidelinesVerified 4 days ago | $25,000 |
| Stillwater Fund for ChildrenInvited after the 2026-07-21 intro call. Drafting starts week of Aug 10. | 17/20 | Drafting | 30 Oct 2026 | Funder guidelinesVerified 7 days ago | $45,000 |
| Great Lakes Grocers Community FundNeeds one data point from the client before the draft can be finished. | 16/20 | Drafting | 20 Aug 2026 | Funder guidelinesVerified 2 days ago | $12,000 |
| Riverworks Corporate GivingDeadline verification is past the 30 day window. | 16/20 | Researching | 30 Sep 2026 | Funder guidelinesVerified 43 days ago | $15,000 |
| Bellwether Family TrustQueued for the September cycle. | 15/20 | Researching | 14 Nov 2026 | Funder guidelinesVerified 9 days ago | $50,000 |
05Outcomes and what we learned
No awards were notified this month, and none were expected. The requests now with funders have stated decision dates in section 3.
No declines were notified this month.
The one decline on record is from before this engagement began, from the Concord Mutual Insurance Foundation in June, and the reason is worth keeping in front of the board: the funder narrowed its 2026 giving to disaster relief in March, after the application went in. That is a guidelines change, not a weakness in the request. We now re-read published guidelines within thirty days of every submission rather than relying on the version we researched. Two Rivers Health Collaborative was retired from the shortlist in July for the same class of reason, found before any time went into a draft rather than after.
06Where the hours went
Writing
5.5
Research
4.0
Verification
1.5
Reporting
1.5
Review
1.0
Submission
1.0
Client
1.0
Total 15.5 hours this month, logged against the dated activity record kept in your shared folder.
07What we need from you
- Confirm the FY25 food pantry unit counts so the Great Lakes Grocers LOI can be finished7 Aug 2026
- Return edits on the Stillwater Fund LOI draft within five business days of receiving it21 Aug 2026
- Send the signed FY25 audit letter for the grant attachment folder14 Aug 2026
- Confirm whether the board wants the Bellwether Family Trust ask set at $50,000 or scaled to the program budget4 Sep 2026
How to read this report. It records the work that was done and the requests that were made.
It does not forecast awards. Foundation decisions on the requests above land between three and nine
months after submission, so a month with no decisions is a normal month, not a bad one.
Nomar Grants is paid a flat monthly fee, never a percentage of any award, in line with the Grant Professionals Association Code of Ethics. No funding outcome is guaranteed. What is guaranteed is the work: research, drafting, verification and deadlines, all of it listed above.
Nomar Grants is paid a flat monthly fee, never a percentage of any award, in line with the Grant Professionals Association Code of Ethics. No funding outcome is guaranteed. What is guaranteed is the work: research, drafting, verification and deadlines, all of it listed above.