Lightning Grant

HUD grant paperwork, from days to minutes.

Post-award compliance and reporting software for HUD Healthy Homes Production grantees. Emailed invoices become allocated budgets, audit-defensible records, and quarterly HHGMS and SF-425 reports — with your team approving every number.

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How it works

Documents in. Reports out. No portals, no data entry, no new habits — if your team can forward an email, they can use Lightning Grant.

1

Email it in

Invoices, timesheets, and unit documents go to your organization's private intake address — straight from vendors or your inbox. Same email pattern you already use.

2

The software proposes

Each expense is read and allocated across four dimensions: budget line, direct or indirect, federal or match, and the unit it belongs to.

3

You approve

Every allocation waits in a review queue until a human approves it. Nothing enters your books — or your reports — without sign-off.

What you get

One approved ledger drives everything, so your numbers agree with each other — by construction, not reconstruction.

Quarterly reports in minutes

SF-425 Federal Financial Reports, the HHGMS Part 3 performance report, and quarterly data sheets — all generated from the same approved ledger, so they reconcile with each other every quarter.

LOCCS drawdowns, by the cumulative math

Every draw is logged against cumulative paid federal expenses, so available-to-draw is always current — and each drawdown packet builds itself from the same ledger.

Audit-defensible by default

Every figure traces to a retained source document. When an auditor asks "why was this charged here?", the answer is one click, not one afternoon.

Budget health at a glance

Live spend against every budget line, federal and match, with warnings before you hit a ceiling — not after.

Per-unit tracking

Hazards found, interventions completed, and costs per unit — assembled from the assessments, work plans, and conversation logs you already write.

Match, captured as it happens

Cash, in-kind, and third-party contributions recorded against each match stream as they arrive — so match documentation builds up during the quarter instead of being reconstructed for the audit.

See it on your grant

Tell us a little about your organization and we'll set up a walkthrough using the kinds of documents your team handles every week.

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