Case Study: The Association of Food and Drug Officials achieves 10x growth in food safety grants with Fluxx Grantmaker

AFDO Scales Food Safety Grants 10x With Fluxx Grantmaker

The Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO), a 122-year-old organization that administers FDA pass-through food safety grants, needed a simple, scalable grants management system to process applications quickly each year. Their applicants are often frontline inspectors with only 30–45 minutes to apply, and AFDO had to meet tight federal timelines and FDA oversight while moving from a pilot program to a larger, repeatable process.

Fluxx Grantmaker gave AFDO a single-page grantee portal and a four-step cloud workflow (submission, peer review, final review, award) that enabled full processing in six weeks. The streamlined system let AFDO scale rapidly—program growth of 400% in two years and tenfold over six years—helped increase award funding (from $450K to nearly $2M by year three), and reduced FDA review time to one-tenth while delivering five times the output.

The Association of Food and Drug Officials

Art Johnstone

President