Grant decisions feel like a moving target. We built the scorecard.
Your Return On Impact Quotient, or ROIQ™, scores your nonprofit's grant readiness across 9 indicators in under 15 minutes. One report. Zero guessing about what to fix first.
Strategy that gets funded
programs, workshops, and keynotes
Team
McAllister & Quinn
We just need a grant
for that.
I hear it every week. And every time, I want to say — if only it were that easy.
Good applications don't win grants. Grant-ready nonprofits do. Most leaders are flying blind on whether they're even ready to compete. They apply, they wait, they guess what went wrong when the rejection comes back or the funder goes silent.
The ROIQ Diagnostic ends the guessing.What grant-ready nonprofits
have in common
After years of watching which nonprofits win and which don't, the pattern came into focus. Winners are strong in the same three places. The ones that stall are weak in the same three.
Relevant
Is your mission aligned with a real community need, backed by clear data and outcomes, and matched to the right funders?
Optimize
Do your internal systems, team structure, and finances give you the capacity to sustain fundraising and deliver what you promise?
Interact
Are your funder and community relationships strong, your communications consistent, and your follow-through reliable enough to turn capacity into support?
That's the spine of the ROIQ. Your Diagnostic scores you across all three pillars and nine indicators.
Lands in your inbox.
Within the hour.
Your report arrives as a PDF you can read at your desk, share with your board, and build a strategy around.
This isn't a personality quiz. The ROIQ was built from patterns we've watched play out across hundreds of nonprofit engagements.
- 01Your score across Relevant, Optimize, and Interact
- 02A breakdown for each of the nine areas, with the specific indicators that matter
- 03The gaps that need attention, ranked by priority
- 04A recommended next step you can act on this week
Your application is fine.
Fine doesn't get funded.
Every unfunded year costs more than the grant you missed. It costs momentum, board confidence, staff time, and the programs you can't scale.
The ROIQ replaces a year of guessing with one afternoon of clarity — and a report you can actually act on.
Built on 20 years of watching what gets funded.
In 2022 I gave a TEDx talk on what I call the ROI Framework™: Relevant + Optimize + Interact = Return on Impact. These three pillars are what successful nonprofits get right. The talk reached 18K+ views and started conversations with leaders across the sector. Since then we've refined that framework into the diagnostic you're looking at now.
It takes an outsider to look inside a ministry with fresh eyes to see the hidden gems just waiting to be exposed and polished up. But you did that for us. Thank you for helping us to reframe our thoughts about our work and the value it holds.
Three steps. Real clarity.
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15 minutes. The more real you are, the more useful the report.
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Your personalized PDF lands within the hour — with scores, findings, and a recommended next step.
Built for leaders ready
to stop guessing
See the
whole picture.
Board members, program directors, and executive staff each see a different slice of your nonprofit. Together they see the whole.
When your team takes the ROIQ together, we compile an aggregate Team Report — your nonprofit's score across Relevant, Optimize, and Interact. The fastest way to move a board conversation out of opinion and into evidence.
Five seats, one Team Report. See where your whole team stands. Then the board conversation starts from evidence, not opinion.
Frequently asked.
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$97. One diagnostic. Real clarity instead of another year of proposals that don't land.
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