Your grantees are doing incredible work.
Your foundation believes in meaningful change.
PI ROI makes sure the world can see and learn alongside you.
Foundations work every day to help people, families, and communities be whole. They are inspired by their grantee partners. They believe grantees are doing transformational work. And yet, when it is time to tell the story, administrative maladies create barriers and gaps in what has been accomplished together.
Every year, foundations aim to improve data efficiency through more training or larger systems to tell richer stories of impact. But these efforts alone are not enough to bridge the administrative gulf.
There is a solvable solution that supports the humanity of grant recipients and the people they serve. This is not a training problem. It is a systems problem. And system problems are what PI ROI was built to solve.
Transformational Strategies
What kind of results is your organization seeking?
From administrative mismatch to aligned infrastructure
Your grantees stop drowning in mismatched reporting capacity. Your organization gets consistent, real-time data across your entire portfolio — without adding burden to the grantee partners. Both sides of the partnership see the same data. The story emerges from the system, not from a late-night or a year-end scramble.
From scattered data sets to an accessible and coherent impact narrative
You walk into board meetings and funder conversations with a clear, credible story about what your investment is producing — across every grantee, every program, every year. Not anecdotes. Not populated spreadsheets. A portfolio-wide picture of change.
From compliance monitoring to a co-learning culture
Your grantee partners move from checking boxes to building data capacity together. The relationship shifts from oversight to shared investment in outcomes. That is not a rebranding exercise. It is a structural change — and it requires infrastructure designed for it.
From a maxed-out capacity grassroots organization to a supported community change agent
Small, culturally specific, and grassroots organizations get the infrastructure to surface their impact — so their work shows up in your portfolio story, not just in anecdotes. This is especially critical for first-time grantees and organizations with limited administrative capacity.
From overstretched intermediary models to scalable co-learning forums
If you are building or scaling an intermediary model, you get a replicable co-learning system that can grow with your portfolio without growing your overhead. One portal. Both sides of the partnership. No more separate spreadsheets, emails, and one-off reports.
Our lived experience and executive-honed strategies can help!
Who's This Perfect For
Private and community foundations
Intermediary organizations
Corporate social responsibility leaders
Federal, state, territory, and local grantmakers
Tribal nations and indigenous funders
National associations and coalitions
THIS IS NOT A TEMPLATE. THIS IS NOT A COURSE. THIS IS NOT A DIY TOOLKIT.
WE DELIVER CHANGE YOU CAN SEE IN REAL TIME.
WE DELIVER SHARED STORIES OF POSITIVE CHANGE.
PI ROI is a fully managed, custom-configured co-learning system — built by a former federal Senior Executive who coordinated $1B+ in funding across 1,000+ grantees. Every portal is built for your specific cohort, your specific partners, and your specific story of change. No two portals are identical.
PI ROI reflects how the system actually works — for grantee realities and funder realities. Foundations and grantees learn together. Implementation is not your job. Results are.
MEET your new strategic advisor
Shawndell Dawson
Shawndell Dawson brings 29 years of national experience, including 15 years as a funder and 14 years in the nonprofit sector, standing alongside survivors and the organizations that serve them.
She has lived on both sides of the funding relationship — grantees who must prove impact to sustain their funding, and funders who must demonstrate portfolio outcomes to their boards and co-investors. Both carry the burden of proof. PI ROI was built to make that burden lighter for both.
She deeply understands the importance, urgency, and moral imperative to tell stories of change and impact in ways that are inclusive and comprehensive for agencies, people, and communities.
Also Known for...
$1 Billion in
ARP Funding for DV, SA, Culturally Specific, and Mobile Health Supports Accessiblity Funding
$45 Million in CARES Act Supplemental Funding foR Shelters, Tribes, Coalitions, Resource Center,s and Hotlines
$10 Million in Hurricane Disaster Assistance and Response Supplemental Funding foR Shelters, Tribes, Coalitions
$260 Million in Annual funding for foR Shelters, Tribes, Coalitions
2,000+ grant recipients supported nationwide, US Territories, and 252 tribal nations
3 national intermediary models implemented successfully for trauma-informed health supports, trauma-informed health services, and culturally specific services
THE ROI TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY SESSION
$1,000
90 minutes · Applied toward any PI ROI advisory or licensing engagement
This is not a sales call. It is the first step of the transformational engagement. A structured 90-minute conversation to confirm fit, map your cohort, identify your specific levers to transform your funding partnerships into mutually beneficial co-learning narratives, and leave with a clear blueprint for what is next.
Deep-dive review of your current grantee reporting and data infrastructure
A plan to identify the specific administrative mismatch affecting your portfolio
Strategic recommendations for co-learning infrastructure design
Alignment assessment and benefits discussion about the PI ROI infrastructure and processes
A 30-day blueprint with a summary of recommended next steps delivered within 5 business days
READY TO transform your grantee partnerships?
5 Ways You Can Partner With Us Today!
Whether you are exploring what your grantees are facing, ready to build co-learning infrastructure, or somewhere in between — PI ROI has a structured entry point that meets you where you are and moves you toward the impact your grantees deserve