Grants & Contracts

Walk Into Every Deadline
Already Prepared

Foundations fund projects. Government agencies fund delivery, year after year, through RFPs and RFQs. Most nonprofits never compete for that money because they cannot produce what evaluators score: documented past performance, current outcome data, and a complete, responsive file. You already have the raw material. We help you turn it into validated, reusable records.

Funding controls
Funding and contract controls
Funding and Proposal · Contract and Procurement
42 control assessment
FND-1 Documented past performanceValidated
FND-3 Outcome data for narrativesPartially accepted
CON-2 Registrations currentValidated
CON-4 Insurance in forceNeeds evidence
CON-6 References confirmedPartially accepted
Each status is set by a Luminary reviewer, never by the environment.
What Evaluators Score

The Reviewer and the Panel
Ask the Same Question

Can you prove you’ve done it?

Grant: outcomes data and letters. RFP: past performance with references. Same source: documented, delivered work, validated by a person.

Can you show your capacity?

Grant: capacity section. RFP: key personnel, methodology, data security. Both answered by an organization on real, approved systems.

Did you follow the instructions?

A requirement checklist where one miss disqualifies you before page one. Won or lost on completeness.

Past performance
County Reentry Services Contract
Past performance record
Validated
ScopeReentry case management
PeriodJul 2024 to Jun 2026
Measured outcomeJob placement rate documented
ReferenceConfirmed
Every delivered contract becomes a reusable past performance record.
Reuse, Not Rework

Reuse Trusted Records Across
Grants, Contracts, and Reports

A validated past performance record, an outcome exhibit from your data, a budget narrative from your approved budget: each is built once, then assembled into the next grant, the next contract, and the next report. The same trusted records answer a foundation proposal, a federal RFP, and a quarterly funder report. When a registration or insurance certificate is about to expire, you know well before a deadline does.

GrantsContractsReports
Evidence package
Response package
Assembled from validated records
Past performance: County Reentry ContractReused in 3 bids
Outcome exhibit: Job placement rateFrom live data
Budget narrative FY26From approved budget
Key personnel biosCurrent
Build a trusted record once, reuse it across grants, contracts, and reports.
The Contract Toolkit

Four Tools, One Pipeline

Everything a competitive bid demands, built from your validated records and reused on the next one.

Opportunity Tracker

Grants, RFPs, RFQs, and qualification pools in one pipeline: deadlines, question dates, and a bid or no-bid brief so you never spend forty hours on a bid you shouldn’t chase.

Requirement Checklist

Every requirement in the solicitation, extracted and tracked. Disqualifiers pinned to the top. Your package doesn’t move until every one is addressed.

Past Performance Library

Built from work you actually delivered: scope, period, measured outcomes, and a reference who agreed to take the call. Validated once, reused in every bid.

Response Packages

Technical narrative in the agency’s own structure, outcome exhibits from your data, cost proposal from your real budget. Assembled from validated records and delivered for your approval.

The Bright Line

You Review, Approve,
and Certify

Your name is on the bid because it is your organization’s work, provable because it is documented and validated. Luminary never inflates a number and never marks a requirement done that isn’t.

Luminary may prepare, organize, analyze, draft, and recommend within scope. The client reviews and approves external facts. The client submits, signs, and certifies through an authorized representative.

Client approval gate
State Workforce RFP response
Prepared for your review
Awaiting your approval
Approve the factsRequest revision
You review and approve external facts. You submit, sign, and certify through your authorized representative.
Why This Compounds

Every Contract Writes
the Next Proposal

Deliver a contract, and the performance is captured as it happens: engagement, participant outcomes, progress reports. Once validated, it becomes a reusable past performance record that strengthens your Readiness Profile and your next bid. Grants prove the concept. Contracts build the institution.

Free readiness check

Know Your Readiness Before
The Next Deadline Does

Take the free Readiness Check. 28 questions across the seven domains, about six to eight minutes, and you see where you would start, self-reported, with the pressure areas named.

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