Church leaders helping churches win and keep grant funding
Built by church leaders, for church leaders — the financial authority that stays for the whole funding lifecycle.
Founded by people who've done the work themselves
Exousia was founded in 2020 by Kevin and Dani Arthur, who spent years leading ministry and nonprofit administration before starting the firm — including landing over $2 million in grants for a single congregation's food pantry, youth programs, and mental health initiatives. They built Exousia because faith-based organizations kept getting turned away from serious federal and foundation funding, not for lack of a worthy mission, but for lack of the compliance infrastructure large funders require.
That's still the whole point. We translate complex federal guidelines into plain action, and we stay through the entire funding lifecycle — readiness, research, writing, and the years of post-award compliance that follow — so church and ministry leaders can stay focused on the mission that brought them here in the first place.
- 2020Founded by working church administrators
- 100+ yrsCombined faith-based & secular nonprofit administration experience
- 1 partnerFor the entire funding lifecycle — readiness through compliance
Meet the people
Get to know the team who'll actually do the work
Every engagement is carried by people you can actually name, not a rotating cast of account managers. See who you'd be working with.
Beyond the compliance work
Our companies — and the projects they fund
Dominion, Pinacle Financial, and XO Bank are one half of the picture. The other is the grant-funded ministry work we run ourselves — Caring Cradle, Kingdom Builders Network, and Kingdom Builders Exchange — and it's the part of Exousia that keeps growing.
What we hold ourselves to
Years of federal and foundation funding work have taught us which values actually hold up under a compliance audit. These are ours.
- Integrity — We do what we say, and say what we mean, especially when a federal reporting deadline is on the line.
- Accountability — Every commitment we make to a client's board is one we track and report against, in writing.
- Excellence — We hold our own compliance record, and our clients', to the standard federal reviewers actually apply.
- Mission-mindedness — We learn the calling behind every organization we serve, not just the funding category it fits.
- Equipping, not eclipsing — We build our clients' internal capacity so the knowledge stays with them, long after an engagement ends.
Why the lifecycle model
One partner from readiness through the years of compliance that follow
Most consultants disappear after the proposal is submitted, win or lose. We stay on the same engagement through drawdowns, reporting, and audit prep, because that's where most of the actual funding risk lives. It's also where relationships either compound or evaporate — and we intend to compound.
Whatever stage your organization is at
Let's talk about your next funding cycle
One conversation is enough to know whether we're the right long-term partner for your mission.
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