Case Study: Endowment for Health achieves streamlined, transparent grantmaking with Blackbaud Grantmaking

The grantmaking solution the Endowment used to award $60 million over 20 years for public health in New Hampshire

The Endowment for Health is a private New Hampshire foundation that has invested more than $60M across 1,500+ grants to improve health and reduce illness for vulnerable communities. With a small staff and a strategic, field‑building grantmaking approach, the Endowment needed better transparency, compliance, data collection, and streamlined workflows to support audits, reviewers, and equity‑focused initiatives while reducing administrative burdens.

They adopted Blackbaud Grantmaking (cloud‑based, SKY platform) using Blueprint and the Grantee Portal to add custom demographic fields, centralize data, and automate dashboards and workflows. The result: an 85% response rate on the inaugural grantee survey, faster reviews and a 24‑hour emergency grant approval that helped 12 people become licensed nursing assistants, clearer audit reporting, and improved tracking of strategic investments across priority initiatives.

Endowment for Health

Andie Hession

Grants Program Associate