For funders and donors
Make disciplined funding decisions and build a clearer grantmaking process.
- Grantmaking strategy and portfolio review
- Nonprofit due diligence and financial analysis
- Decision 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 set priorities, assess opportunities, and strengthen operations. For nonprofits, Tearose sharpens strategy, funder communications, and high-priority projects.
What Tearose can do for you.
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 priority needs require 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.
Research and diligence
Design source-grounded workflows to review proposals, 990s, budgets, websites, and meeting notes, compare organizations, and surface stronger questions.
Writing and communications
Create faster, more consistent first drafts of memos, proposals, reports, board materials, and donor communications.
Operations and knowledge
Reduce manual steps in meeting follow-up, CRM updates, reporting calendars, and internal knowledge management.
Support can include tool assessment, workflow design, staff training, and clear guardrails for confidentiality, source verification, and human review.
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, he served as Director of Research and Policy at Hoplin Jackson Charitable Advisors, where he worked with executive leadership to guide more than $12 million in annual charitable giving.
Known for careful listening, detailed research, and concise written recommendations, Nathaniel’s responsibilities at Hoplin Jackson included grantmaking strategy, nonprofit due diligence, financial analysis, and investment-style reviews of leadership, programs, risks, and fit with client priorities. Earlier, as a Senior Program Officer at the Snider Foundation, he managed a portfolio of roughly 35 grantees and $2.5 million in annual grantmaking, reviewed proposals, budgets, audits, Form 990s, and reports, and briefed board members on complex issues.
His earlier nonprofit consulting and development experience included building donor systems and producing proposals, reports, budgets, and board materials for organizations pursuing more than $5 million in annual fundraising goals. He 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 consulting
$12M+Annual charitable giving advised
$2.5MAnnual grant portfolio managed
Senior attention, without unnecessary process.
Every engagement is built around a clear outcome and useful deliverables, without layers of unnecessary process.
Focus the assignment
Define the decision, audience, deliverable, and practical end point before the scope expands.
Follow the evidence
Review the relevant documents, data, and perspectives, test assumptions, and surface tradeoffs directly.
Carry it through
Turn the analysis into finished materials, workable systems, and next steps that can be implemented.
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.
nathaniel@tearosestrategies.comBased in Greater Philadelphia · Working with clients nationally