For funders
Make disciplined funding decisions and build a clearer grantmaking process.
- Grantmaking strategy and portfolio review
- Nonprofit due diligence and financial analysis
- Recommendation memos, board materials, and grant systems
Philanthropic advising · Nonprofit strategy · Practical AI
Clear strategy and hands-on support for funders and nonprofits.
Tearose Strategies helps funders and nonprofits make informed decisions, strengthen strategy and communications, and advance complex projects. Nathaniel Moldoff, Tearose’s founder, leads every engagement.
How Tearose can help.
Engagements can be a focused project or ongoing fractional support, depending on the need.
For nonprofits
Turn priorities into credible plans and stronger funder-facing materials.
- Program and organizational strategy
- Foundation fundraising strategy, proposals, and reports
- Board materials, partnerships, and growth initiatives
For projects and transitions
Add experienced capacity when important work requires focused attention.
- Time-sensitive research, planning, or communications projects
- Fractional support across a defined set of priorities
- Systems and workflow improvement
Practical AI integration, built around real tasks.
Move from ad hoc experimentation to useful, repeatable workflows for grantmaking, fundraising, and internal operations. Tearose can help your team build and adopt these systems, including tool assessment, workflow design, staff training, and clear guardrails for confidentiality, source verification, and human review.
Research and due diligence
Build reliable AI workflows that analyze proposals, Form 990s, budgets, websites, and meeting notes to compare organizations and identify stronger questions, with key findings verified against original sources.
Writing and communications
Use AI to create faster, more consistent first drafts of memos, proposals, reports, board materials, and donor communications.
Operations and knowledge management
Use AI to reduce manual steps in meeting follow-up, CRM updates, reporting calendars, and organizing and retrieving internal information.
A funder’s perspective, grounded in nonprofit experience.
Nathaniel Moldoff has spent more than a decade helping funders and nonprofits make decisions, evaluate opportunities, and communicate clearly.
Before founding Tearose Strategies, Nathaniel served as Director of Research and Policy at Hoplin Jackson Charitable Advisors, advising on more than $12 million in annual charitable giving. Previously, at the Snider Foundation, he managed a multimillion-dollar portfolio of approximately 35 grantees and later supported grantmaking across all three program areas. His earlier consulting and development work gave him direct experience with nonprofit fundraising and operations.
His particular strength is translating research, financial information, and stakeholder perspectives into clear strategy and usable materials. He incorporates carefully designed AI-enabled research and workflows where they can improve speed and consistency, while keeping source verification, confidentiality, and human judgment central.
Nathaniel brings particular depth in Jewish and Israel-focused philanthropy, including Jewish communal life, Israel, antisemitism, and institutional security.
He holds an MPA in nonprofit management and an MA in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University, where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow/Davidson Scholar, and a BA from Franklin & Marshall College. He also studied at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.
10+ yearsAcross philanthropy and nonprofit strategy
$40M+Charitable giving advised and managed
$10M+Grant funding helped secure
Senior attention, without unnecessary process.
Every engagement is built around a clear outcome and useful deliverables, so the work begins quickly and stays focused.
Contact
Bring the decision, project, or bottleneck.
If you are weighing a funding opportunity, developing an initiative, improving a workflow, or need temporary senior capacity, get in touch.
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