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Impact Innovations LLC · Last updated: September 22, 2026

These terms apply to returnonimpact.org and to the services Impact Innovations LLC sells through this site. By using this site or buying a service, you agree to them. Please read the section that covers what you bought, because different services carry different terms.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information. It sits at returnonimpact.org/privacy/.

1. Who you are contracting with

Impact Innovations LLC provides every service described on this site. When these terms say “we,” “us,” or “our,” they mean Impact Innovations LLC. When they say “you” or “your,” they mean the person or organization using the site or buying a service.

2. Using this site

You may read, share, and reference the material on this site with proper attribution to Impact Innovations LLC. You may not copy our frameworks, templates, assessments, or written material for resale, for redistribution, or for use in a competing service.

Everything on this site, including the ROI Framework™, the ROIQ™, the Return on Impact Ecosystem™, the Grant Readiness Roadmap, Capacity Milestones, and all written and visual material, belongs to Impact Innovations LLC unless we note otherwise. We reserve all rights.

3. The ROIQ™

The ROIQ diagnostic costs nothing. You complete it, and we send your score and your results.

We use your responses to produce your results and to improve the diagnostic. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle that information.

Your score reflects the answers you give. It measures readiness, and it does not predict funding outcomes.

4. Three ways we work

Read the section that matches how you bought.

Services you buy on this site. You pay through our checkout, and these terms govern the work. The Grant Strategy Analysis and our courses work this way.

Programs you apply for. You apply through this site, we confirm fit, and you sign a program agreement before enrollment. The Impact Incubator works this way. Where a signed program agreement and these terms disagree, the signed agreement controls.

Engagements we scope in a proposal. We send a proposal, you sign an agreement, and that signed agreement governs the work. Consulting engagements, the Grant Readiness Roadmap, workshops, and speaking work this way. Where a signed agreement and these terms disagree, the signed agreement controls.

5. Payment

We price services in United States dollars. Payment is due at purchase for services you buy on this site, unless an installment plan is expressly offered. For programs and scoped engagements, payment follows the schedule in your agreement.

Pricing quoted in a proposal stays effective for 30 days from the date of that proposal.

We deliver services remotely. If an engagement requires travel, we bill travel expenses in addition to the fee, and we agree those expenses with you in writing first.

Significant additions or changes to scope carry additional cost. We agree any additional fee with you in writing before new work begins.

6. Grant Strategy Analysis

What you get. The Grant Strategy Analysis includes review of your intake form, ROIQ results, and 2 to 3 relevant documents totaling up to 15 pages; one strategy call; a written analysis; and one debrief call to explain the findings and recommendations. Up to two people from your organization may attend each call. The service does not include grant writing or editing, funder research, or ongoing coaching.

Starting your engagement. Your engagement begins at purchase. We send the intake form and onboarding instructions by email. We review your materials, hold the strategy call, prepare the written analysis, and then meet with you for the debrief.

Your participation. You are responsible for providing accurate, complete intake materials, completing the free ROIQ, responding to our questions, and scheduling and attending the included calls. We will tell you what information we need and when it is due.

Delivery. We deliver your written analysis within 45 calendar days after the later of receiving your complete intake materials and completing your strategy call. If we elect to proceed without the call or with limited information under the next paragraph, we will confirm the start of the 45 day delivery period in writing. We confirm the delivery date in writing. If a later delay in your participation prevents us from completing the work, we will explain the effect on delivery and confirm a revised date.

Missing information or a missed strategy call. If information is incomplete, you miss the strategy call, or you ask to waive it, we may proceed only if the information available supports a meaningful analysis. We will confirm that decision in writing and identify any material limitations in the report. If we cannot produce a meaningful analysis without your participation, the nonparticipation provisions below apply.

The debrief call. We deliver the written analysis before the debrief. You may waive the debrief in writing. If you miss the call or do not arrange it, we will make at least two written attempts to schedule or reschedule it. Our final notice will give you a reasonable opportunity to schedule and attend and will state when the unused debrief expires. Once we have delivered the report, the engagement is complete when you have attended or waived the debrief, or the debrief has expired under this process, unless we agree to an extension in writing. No separate refund or credit is due for a debrief you waive or allow to expire.

Nonparticipation and closure. If your engagement remains stalled because you have not provided necessary information, responded to our questions, or participated in scheduling or the strategy call, we may close it once 90 calendar days have passed from purchase. Before closure, we will make at least two written requests. The final notice will identify what is missing, give you a reasonable deadline to respond and complete the required steps, and explain that the engagement may close if you do not do so. We will not close the engagement before that deadline. Closure under this provision does not entitle you to a refund.

Active engagements and extensions. The 90 day provision addresses client nonparticipation. It does not shorten a confirmed delivery schedule for an active engagement. We may grant an extension at our discretion and will confirm it in writing. Delays caused by us do not justify closing your engagement or allowing an included call to expire.

Refunds. Fees are nonrefundable from purchase, except as stated below or as required by law. Client cancellation, missed meetings, and closure for nonparticipation do not create a right to a refund or exchange.

Our obligation to deliver. If we cannot complete your Grant Strategy Analysis engagement for reasons within our control, we refund your fee in full. Nothing in these terms limits a refund or other remedy required by applicable law.

7. Impact Incubator and other programs

These provisions govern the Impact Incubator. You apply through this site, and enrollment begins when both of us sign your program agreement. The program scope is described on the Incubator page at the time you apply and in your program agreement. Your signed program agreement controls if it conflicts with the Incubator page or these terms.

Term and commitment. The Impact Incubator runs for six months. Enrollment commits your organization to the full program fee stated in your program agreement. We reserve staff and capacity for that term and begin substantial work early in the engagement.

Payment schedule. You may pay in full or use an installment plan offered in your program agreement. Each installment is a payment toward the full program fee. The payment schedule specifies the number, amount, and due dates of the installments.

Participation and withdrawal. Requests to withdraw must be made in writing. Stopping participation or requesting withdrawal does not, by itself, cancel the remaining payment obligation or entitle you to a refund. Any early release must follow the process below, subject to applicable law.

Early release. We may grant early release at our discretion. We consider the work completed, documented commitments and costs we cannot reasonably avoid, and payments already made. Any release must be agreed by both parties in writing and state when services end, the final amount owed or refunded, any changes to scheduled payments, and continued access to materials or resources. The same assessment applies whether you paid in full or by installments. Refunds and remaining balances are not determined solely by the number of months elapsed.

Access to materials. Your rights to use materials already delivered are governed by section 10. Any early release agreement will address continued access to program resources and any outstanding deliverables.

Our obligation to deliver. If we cannot complete the program for reasons within our control, we will refund amounts paid for services we cannot deliver and adjust any unpaid balance to exclude those services. We will provide a written accounting of completed and undelivered services. This calculation reflects the work actually completed rather than assuming an equal value for each month. Nothing in these terms limits a refund or other remedy required by applicable law.

Courses and training programs. Fast Track to Grant Writer VIP and other course-based training you buy on this site follow these terms. Course materials are for your personal use. You may not share them, share your login, or reproduce them, and we may end your access if you do. Access to course materials lasts for as long as we host them. Access to any community or live component lasts for the period stated at purchase. Course fees are nonrefundable from purchase, except as required by law.

Other programs. Each other program’s scope, duration, payment commitments, and cancellation terms will be stated before purchase in its program terms or agreement. The Incubator’s six month commitment and early release provisions apply only to the Incubator.

8. What we do not guarantee

We work with you to generate strategies, tactics, ideas, pitches, and materials that move you toward the results you want. We cannot guarantee grant funding.

We make no guarantee about how much money you will raise or how many grants you will win as a result of working with us. Examples and estimates of funding or fundraising outcomes are provided for context and do not promise a particular result.

9. Not professional advice

Our work is not legal, accounting, tax, or financial advice. You are responsible for your decisions and for obtaining advice from qualified professionals when needed. Our liability is governed by section 12.

10. Your materials and ours

Yours stays yours. Files and documents you provide remain your property. We do not claim ownership of your organizational information, your donor data, or your program material.

Ours stays ours. We keep all rights in our methodologies, frameworks, templates, assessments, and tools, along with any improvements we make to them. Working with you does not transfer those.

What you may do with your deliverables. Once the agreed fees have been paid in full, you may use, adapt, and share the customized deliverables we create for your organization’s internal, fundraising, and communications purposes for as long as you like. This includes sharing them with your board, staff, funders, and professional advisors, and publishing customized fundraising materials in your organization’s name.

If you are paying through an approved installment plan, you may use deliverables already released to you for those purposes while your payments are current. An early release agreement will specify your continuing rights to delivered materials and any conditions tied to the agreed final payment.

These permissions do not transfer ownership of our underlying methodologies, frameworks, templates, assessments, or tools. You may not resell, sublicense, or distribute those proprietary materials for another organization’s use or for use in a competing service without our written permission.

11. Confidentiality

We hold in confidence the information you give us about your finances, your donors, your board, your staff, and your operations. We may share it with authorized employees, contractors, and service providers only as needed to deliver the services and subject to appropriate confidentiality obligations. Otherwise, we do not share it without your permission, except where the law requires us to.

You hold in confidence the material we share with you that is not already public, including our methodologies, templates, and tools. This does not restrict the permitted use and sharing of customized deliverables under section 10. Any nonpublic proprietary materials shared with your staff or advisors must remain subject to appropriate confidentiality obligations.

These obligations continue after our work together ends.

12. Limitation of liability

We take reasonable care with everything you entrust to us. Subject to the exceptions below, our total liability arising out of or related to these terms or any service will not exceed the total fees you paid us for that service.

We are not liable for incidental, consequential, or indirect damages of any kind, including lost profits, business interruption, lost information, or lost funding opportunities.

The liability cap and damages exclusions in this section do not apply to our gross negligence or willful misconduct, or to liability that applicable law does not allow us to limit.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we change the “last updated” date at the top. Your purchase is governed by the terms in effect on the day you bought.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. These terms, together with any signed agreement, are the whole agreement between us about the site and the services.

14. Governing law

Missouri law governs these terms, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Any dispute arising from these terms or from our services belongs in the state or federal courts located in Missouri, and both of us consent to that jurisdiction.

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