About the Firm
Funder & Foundation Highlights
High Plains Grants is a Wyoming-based grant writing, grant management, and grant prospecting firm serving nonprofits across the Mountain West and the broader United States. The firm partners with arts and culture organizations, rural health systems, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and mission-driven nonprofits to secure federal, state, local, and private funding for the programs that anchor their communities.
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The firm was built on a conviction that the strongest proposals are not assembled — they are argued. Every funded application makes a case: that a community need is real and documented, that the applicant is uniquely positioned to address it, and that the proposed work will produce measurable outcomes worth the funder's investment. High Plains Grants approaches each engagement as a case-building exercise, weaving quantitative evidence, programmatic detail, and institutional voice into narratives that withstand the scrutiny of federal reviewers and foundation program officers alike.
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Sector Focus
The firm concentrates its work in two domains where it has developed deep operational fluency:
Arts and Culture. High Plains Grants writes for dance companies, symphonies, museums, and presenting organizations, with particular experience in National Endowment for the Arts proposals, state and regional arts council applications, and private foundation grants supporting artistic programming, education, and community outreach.
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Rural Health and FQHCs. The firm supports rural hospitals, critical access facilities, community health centers, and academic medical partners pursuing Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funding, including residency training programs, service area competitions, and rural health workforce initiatives. This work draws on a working knowledge of 2 CFR 200, GME consortium structures, and the regulatory environment surrounding federal health workforce investment.
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A Mountain West Vantage Point
Operating from Casper, Wyoming, High Plains Grants brings a perspective often missing from coastal consulting practices: a working familiarity with the frontier and rural designations that shape eligibility for federal programs, the consortium models that allow smaller institutions to compete for large awards, and the realities of recruiting clinicians, artists, and audiences in geographically vast regions. The firm understands that "rural" is not a deficit to be apologized for in a proposal — it is, when framed correctly, a powerful argument for funding.
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Track Record
The firm's principal has authored and managed federal applications resulting in significant awards, including a Health Resources and Services Administration Service Area Competition application that brought more than $1.6 million to the University of Wyoming's Educational Health Center of Wyoming, as well as multiple National Endowment for the Arts grants supporting dance education and community programming at Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.
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Services
High Plains Grants offers full-cycle proposal development, from prospect research and concept design through narrative drafting, budget construction, attachment preparation, and post-submission follow-through. The firm also provides grant calendar development, grant management services, funder prospecting, and financial analysis deliverables that help boards and executive teams make informed decisions about which opportunities to pursue.