Philanthropy by Grey Mirror

For fiscal sponsors and regrantors

Capacity that holds at portfolio scale.

A sponsor carries the funding lifecycle multiplied across every project, with obligations flowing both directions: down to supported organizations and up to funders. We work that structure directly, as one retained team.

What we carry across a portfolio.

The unglamorous machinery that makes sponsorship trustworthy, run continuously instead of rescued quarterly.

  • Project eligibility, mission-alignment, and risk review
  • Project agreements and subaward administration
  • Disbursements and restricted-fund accounting, kept clean by project
  • Funder requirements passed down to supported organizations
  • Monitoring of project expenses, compliance, and performance
  • Corrective action when projects fall behind or violate requirements
  • Consolidated reporting across projects, up to funders

Why intermediaries retain us.

Portfolio work punishes fragmentation. Ten projects with ten workflows and ten spreadsheets is how audit findings and missed requirements happen.

One team, every project

The same retained group works across the portfolio, so knowledge compounds instead of scattering across per-project vendors.

Systems built for the load

Data, automation, and workflow infrastructure designed for many projects at once, because we build systems, not just documents.

Reporting that survives review

Project-level restricted accounting rolled into consolidated reporting your funders and auditors can actually follow.

Each project still gets the whole thread.

Sponsored projects sit inside the same five-stage lifecycle we run for standalone organizations: readiness, pursuit, award setup, delivery and compliance, renewal. The portfolio work above sits on top of it, not instead of it.

Tell us where the portfolio hurts.

The backlog of agreements, the reporting that eats every quarter-end, the project that needs corrective action. If we're the right team, we'll talk about what carrying it would look like.

A short note is enough.