About
Now in our 10th year in business, Krista Kurlinkus, LLC has grown from a one-woman consultancy into a nationally recognized partner for nonprofits and changemakers who refuse to settle for the status quo.
Over the past decade, we’ve helped organizations secure more than $50 million in funding across 28 states and 5 countries, with a focus on human rights and democracy; racial and social justice; arts, culture, and humanities; and workforce and economic development. We've also taught tens of thousands of grant writers around the world through our groundbreaking courses.
Whether you’re seeking federal grants, international opportunities, or foundation support, we bring a strategic lens, tailored tools, and a commitment to justice to everything we do.
We help visionary nonprofits build grant programs that are
powerful, fundable, and sustainable,
without the need for a full-time development team.
We believe in designing grant strategies that reflect your values and ambitions, not just the status quo. That means centering equity, leveraging technology, and helping you scale your impact with a grant program that actually works.
Led by Krista Kurlinkus, Ph.D., our team is composed of senior-level grant professionals with expertise in:
We’re not just consultants—we’re active practitioners. We write winning grants, manage portfolios, and build grant infrastructure every single day. We know what works because we’re in the work ourselves.
Build strategic grantseeking infrastructure
Project-based services for established grantseekers
Scale your fundraising efforts with a monthly retainer
Leverage cutting-edge tools like our AI-powered Grants Hub in Notion
In our courses, memberships, and consulting partnerships, we witness the power of community every day. Strangers become collaborators. Ideas become movements. Grant writers, nonprofit leaders, and organizers come together around shared values—mutual aid, justice, equity—to build relationships that outlast any single project or proposal.
We create intentional spaces where people feel seen, supported, and challenged to grow. When we share knowledge, resources, and courage across our community, we don't just increase our impact—we transform what’s possible.
Every grant, course, and collaboration we build is shaped by imagination—not just to make our work more effective, but to make it more joyful, more human, and more just. We reject the myth that only some people are creative. Instead, we embrace creativity as a universal capacity and a vital part of every process.
We bring play, experimentation, and vision into every space we hold—because doing justice work with heart and imagination doesn’t just change outcomes. It changes people. It changes the future.
We speak up. We take risks. We stand firm in the face of silence, dismissal, or disapproval. We believe in justice—not as a brand, but as a daily practice of solidarity, integrity, and collective action.
We believe Black Lives Matter. We defend the bodily autonomy of people with uteruses. We fight for LGBTQIA+ liberation. We demand immigrant justice and the right for every person to live, move, and thrive without fear. We uphold disability rights and know that accessibility is foundational, not optional. We work toward economic equity and reject systems that concentrate wealth and gatekeep opportunity. We protect democratic values—and know they must be expanded, defended, and reimagined by and for the people.
We are unequivocally against genocide, state violence, displacement, and militarism, no matter where it occurs. From Palestine to the Congo, from Syria to Indigenous communities in the U.S. resisting land theft and extraction, we mourn the lives lost and stand in solidarity with all who resist.
We won’t dilute our message to court comfort. Our courage is principled, practiced, and unapologetically aligned with the future we’re here to build: liberated, collective, and rooted in care.
