Case Study: Jessie Ball duPont Fund achieves 460 staff-hours saved for strategic grantmaking with Fluxx Grantmaker

Fluxx Grantmaker Gives Jessie Ball duPont Fund Back 460 Staff Hours for Strategic Grantmaking

Jessie Ball duPont Fund is a regional foundation that awarded nearly $6.9M across ~175 grants in 2018 to strengthen community assets and civic engagement. Frustrated with a paper-based process and an ineffective legacy system (MicroEdge GIFTS), the Fund faced email-driven workflows, poor visibility, and administrative burden that limited staff time for strategic grantmaking.

Implementing Fluxx Grantmaker centralized submissions, approvals, document generation, configurable dashboards, and automated alerts into a single cloud workflow. The result: roughly 46 staff hours saved per person across the grants process (plus 37 hours on closeouts), about 20% faster grant processing, and turnaround reduced from a week to a day—enabling a paperless operation, stronger grantee relationships, and more time for strategic work.

Jessie Ball DuPont Fund

Mark Walker

Knowledge Manager & Technology Officer