Case Study: Blue Shield of California Foundation achieves 1-week grant turnaround and 50% fewer grantmaking steps with Fluxx Grantmaker

Blue Shield of California Scales and Speeds Impact With Fluxx

Blue Shield of California Foundation, a private foundation focused on equitable health solutions, needed a grants management system that could scale with its growing portfolio and support new grant types like rapid-response "Act Now" awards. Their previous vendor-dependent platform forced 3–4 week waits for changes, limited backend access, and inefficient, one-off proposal templates, hampering speed and visibility across finance, learning, and evaluation workflows.

By adopting Fluxx Grantmaker, the Foundation gained configurable, automated workflows and full admin access, enabling templatized proposals and end-to-end management in a single platform. The switch cut grantmaking steps by half, reduced proposal templates to three, enabled roughly one-week turnaround for Act Now grants, allowed same-day (or days) system adjustments instead of weeks, and restored full visibility—freeing staff to scale impact-focused grantmaking.

Blue Shield of California Foundation

Gwyneth Tripp

Contracts Manager