a fictional coalitionSmall organizations. Shared infrastructure. Collective scale.
The Lattice Coalition is five community nonprofits pooling what none can afford alone — grant capacity, data systems, coordinated intake, and back-office strength — so every member's programs go further than any could go solo.
Five small budgets buy one strong system
Every member of this coalition was solving the same three problems separately. Together, we solve them once.
Duplication is expensive
Five bookkeepers, five intake forms, five compliance calendars — for organizations serving overlapping neighbors. Shared operations return those dollars to programs.
Together, we win grants none of us could alone
Multi-year public and foundation funding increasingly requires scale, data capacity, and fiscal controls beyond any single small nonprofit. The coalition is how we qualify.
Shared data proves collective impact
A family helped by one member is usually touched by three. Aligned measurement makes the community-level story visible — and fundable.
Member organizations
Independent missions, one commitment: infrastructure is stronger shared. (In this demo collection, four member sites are live — explore them.)
Marigold Health Navigators
Survivor-led early detection education and patient navigation.
Health access · Countywide Visit member site →Uplink Youth
Digital skills, AI literacy, and career exposure for students 13–19.
Youth opportunity · Citywide Visit member site →Junction House
Reentry navigation and family stability for justice-impacted households.
Reentry · Countywide Visit member site →Porch Light Collective
Neighborhood mutual aid: food access, rides, emergency help, resource navigation.
Community care · Eastside blocks Visit member site →Eastside Family Literacy Project
Two-generation literacy programming for parents and early readers.
Family literacy · Eastside Member site in development
Combined-reach figures are illustrative for this concept demonstration.
Four things we build once, together
Coordinated intake & referral
One front door. A neighbor who reaches any member gets connected to every relevant program — warm handoff, no repeated paperwork.
Shared measurement
Common definitions, common indicators, one data platform — so outcomes add up across members instead of fragmenting.
Joint fundraising
A shared grants calendar, one professional grant-writing function, and joint applications for funding sized beyond any single member.
Collective back-office
Pooled finance, compliance, HR, and technology — audited books and enterprise-grade tools at community-organization cost.
How pooled funding flows
Funders make one investment with one point of accountability. Members keep independent missions and program control. The lattice carries the administrative load in between.
Funders
Foundations, public agencies, and aligned donors make a single coalition-level investment.
The Lattice
- Fiscal coordination & controls
- Consolidated reporting & compliance
- Shared data platform
- Grants management
Members
Five organizations run programs in their own names, with subawards and shared services from the coalition.
Shared outcomes
One community-level impact report, backed by aligned data from every member.
One logic model, five missions
The framework below is how the coalition reports as one system — from shared inputs to community-level indicators.
Inputs
- Pooled & aligned funding
- Shared staff functions
- Common data platform
- Member expertise
Shared activities
- Coordinated intake & referral
- Joint grant applications
- Cross-member case coordination
- Quarterly alignment sessions
Member outcomes
- Screenings & navigation (Marigold)
- Youth skills & portfolios (Uplink)
- Reentry stability (Junction House)
- Household support (Porch Light, Eastside)
Community indicators
- Households stabilized across systems
- Cross-referral completion rate
- Dollars retained in programs
- Coalition grant capital secured
Households served through the coordinated intake pathway in year one
Intake & referralCross-member referrals completed with a confirmed warm handoff
Intake · MeasurementJoint grant capital pursued in the coalition's first funding cycle
Joint fundraisingMembers reporting on the shared indicator set by end of year one
Shared measurementTarget administrative savings returned to member programs
Back-officeConsolidated audit and compliance calendar covering all five members
Back-office · FundingFirst-year targets, illustrative for this concept demonstration. A live coalition would publish actuals quarterly.
Fund infrastructure, not overhead. There's a difference.
Overhead is cost without strategy. Infrastructure is the intake system, the data platform, and the fiscal controls that make five community organizations durable at once. It's the highest-leverage dollar in this collection of missions.
- FoundationsOne grant, five organizations, consolidated reporting against the shared framework.
- Public agenciesA single accountable fiscal partner with community reach across five service areas.
- Prospective membersSmall nonprofits serving our community can apply to join the lattice in year two.
Talk to the coordination team
Funders, public partners, prospective members, and press: one form, routed to the right person.