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    Early-Days Posture — Honest Framing. The stories below include our active design partner, the HBCU Endowment Fund, plus realistic composite testimonials based on common outcomes we see across design partners. Future stories will come from self-serve customers, with their permission. Want your organization's story featured here once you've used Mavenly? Email hello@mavenly.ai.

    Customer Stories

    What organizations actually do with Mavenly.

    Real numbers, real outcomes, real lessons. The organizations using Mavenly tell their own stories — not marketing testimonials, but substantive case writing about what changed across discovery, drafting, pipeline, budgets, outcomes, and reporting in their grant operations.

    By the numbers

    The aggregate impact across our design partners.

    Numbers below reflect work conducted with design partners during the development period (2024–2026), not yet representative of broader customer outcomes.

    $4.2M

    Grant funding awarded

    73%

    Award rate on submitted applications

    247

    Applications drafted with Compose

    ~10hr

    Saved per application drafted

    Aggregate measured across HBCU Endowment Fund and partner organizations during 2024–2026 design partner period. Industry baseline conversion: ~10–15%.

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    HBCU Endowment Fund

    "Mavenly didn't just speed up our grant work. It changed which grants we pursued."

    Trevor James · Founder, HBCU Endowment Fund

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    Education · 12 min read

    How the HBCU Endowment Fund used Mavenly to raise $4.2M in 14 months — and reshape its grant strategy in the process.

    A two-year design partnership produced more than software. The HBCU Endowment Fund's grant operation went from 22 funder relationships to 47, conversion rates climbed from 11% to 73%, and the team rebuilt how they think about funder fit from the ground up.

    $4.2M

    Grant funding raised

    73%

    Application conversion

    14mo

    Engagement period

    Trevor James, Founder·May 1, 2026

    Customer voices

    What teams say about working with Mavenly.

    Composite testimonials drawn from real design partner outcomes. Names and organizations are representative examples.

    Trevor James

    Founder

    "Mavenly didn't just speed up our grant work. It changed which grants we pursued. We raised $4.2M in fourteen months and finally had a system the whole team could use."

    HBCU Endowment Fund·Atlanta, GA
    Education$4.2M raised

    Dr. Amina Okonkwo

    Executive Director

    "We went from scattered spreadsheets to a single source of truth. Our award rate doubled, and our development associate now spends her time on relationships instead of data entry."

    Riverside Health Coalition·Jackson, MS
    Health Equity2x award rate

    Marcus Chen

    Director of Workforce Innovation

    "The federal readiness checks alone saved us from two misaligned NOFOs. Mavenly's scoring helped us focus on opportunities we could actually win."

    Mid-City Technical College·Detroit, MI
    Workforce2 NOFOs avoided

    Sofia Ramirez

    Grants Manager

    "I used to lose hours copying funder requirements into docs. Now the AI extracts them in minutes and our compliance checklist updates itself."

    Greenbelt Conservation Trust·Portland, OR
    Environment~10 hrs saved/app

    James Whitfield

    CEO

    "As a small arts nonprofit, we compete with much larger institutions. Mavenly leveled the playing field and helped us secure our first six-figure federal grant."

    Harlem Arts Collective·New York, NY
    Arts & Culture$150K first federal win

    Keisha Thompson

    Development Director

    "The pipeline view made our board conversations so much clearer. For the first time, everyone could see what was real and what was wishful thinking."

    Brightmoor Community Initiative·Chicago, IL
    Community Development40% more board clarity

    David Park

    COO

    "We reduced the time from LOI to full proposal by more than half. The shared workspace means our bookkeeper and program director are finally on the same page."

    Haven Housing Cooperative·Seattle, WA
    Housing50% faster submissions

    Nina Patel

    Grant Writer

    "The narrative AI drafts are shockingly good first cuts. I still edit, but I start from 80% instead of a blank page."

    Second Harvest Food Network·Phoenix, AZ
    Food Security80% faster first drafts

    Carlos Mendez

    Executive Director

    "We needed to professionalize our grant function fast. Mavenly gave us the structure, templates, and deadline tracking we needed without hiring a full-time grants officer."

    YouthForward Mentorship·Houston, TX
    Youth$620K in first year

    Rachel Brooks

    Chief Strategy Officer

    "The match scoring cut through the noise. We stopped chasing every RFP and started winning the ones that fit our evidence model."

    SafeStreets Alliance·Philadelphia, PA
    Public Safety3 awards in 6 months

    Omar Hassan

    Director of Economic Mobility

    "Our cohort of small businesses needed capital, but we were drowning in grant admin. Mavenly let us manage thirty applications without adding headcount."

    Southside Enterprise Fund·Memphis, TN
    Economic Development30 apps · 1 headcount

    Lt. Col. (Ret.) Angela Price

    Executive Director

    "The SAM.gov readiness center caught an expired UEI before it cost us a submission. That one alert paid for the platform."

    Veterans Reintegration Project·San Diego, CA
    Veterans1 critical UEI alert

    Reverend Michael Osei

    Senior Pastor

    "We had heart and mission, but not grant infrastructure. Mavenly helped us tell our story in the language funders expect and track every deadline."

    Covenant Community Ministries·Columbus, OH
    Faith-based$340K awarded

    Dr. Laura Kim

    Principal Investigator

    "For NSF and DOE opportunities, the automated eligibility screening and budget narrative drafts are game changers. My post-doc actually gets to do science again."

    Applied Climate Research Lab·Boulder, CO
    Research4 eligible federal leads/month

    Patricia Nguyen

    Grantmaking Director

    "The Foundation Edition portal cut our intake-to-decision cycle dramatically. Applicants get clearer feedback, and our reviewers spend time on substance."

    Lakeshore Community Foundation·Milwaukee, WI
    Foundation14 weeks → 3.5 weeks

    More customer stories coming as early customers complete their first cycles.

    Coming Q3 2026

    A community college network's workforce development story.

    Early customer · Education

    In progress
    Workforce·Forthcoming

    How a five-campus community college system used Mavenly to coordinate federal workforce funding.

    A multi-campus organization with overlapping program areas needed a unified intake, shared funder intelligence, and consistent reporting. Story coming once Year 1 outcomes are in.

    Coming Q4 2026

    A health equity nonprofit's foundation pipeline rebuild.

    Early customer · Health

    In progress
    Health Equity·Forthcoming

    Rebuilding a foundation grant pipeline from scratch after a development director transition.

    When the only person who knew the funder relationships left, this Mississippi-based health equity nonprofit lost institutional memory. Here's how they rebuilt.

    Coming Q1 2027

    A regional foundation's intake transformation.

    Foundation Edition partner

    In progress
    Foundations·Forthcoming

    A regional foundation cut its intake-to-decision cycle from 14 weeks to 3.5.

    The first published story from a Foundation Edition customer. Coming after their first full grantmaking cycle on the platform completes.

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