Your Public Funding Should Strengthen Your Organization, Not Overwhelm It
If your school, local government, college, nonprofit, utility, or other public-purpose organization receives consequential public funding, the award can create responsibilities that cut across finance, programs, procurement, leadership, documentation, reporting, and closeout. The Rural Impact Group provides federal award compliance and grants-management support designed for rural organizations that may not have a large internal compliance staff.
Reagan Lynch, Principal Consultant
Your engagement is informed by more than 17 years of experience across government, education, nonprofit administration, public funding, and compliance. Reagan Lynch's work has included securing more than $165 million in funding and supporting the management and compliance of more than $1 billion in public awards and infrastructure programs.
The specialty sits where your financial administration, program operations, procurement, internal controls, documentation, reporting, and executive responsibility intersect.
Capabilities You Can Draw On
- Public-funding readiness and risk assessment
- Federal award financial administration and award-accounting structure
- 2 CFR Part 200 compliance systems
- Internal controls and practical compensating controls for lean organizations
- Procurement and contract-administration controls
- Policy, procedure, documentation, and record-retention systems
- Audit and monitoring preparation
- Corrective action and compliance remediation
- Fractional compliance oversight
- Subrecipient and contractor classification and monitoring systems
- Selective state and federal grant development and project design
What You Can Expect
Your engagement should build capacity rather than dependency. The work is designed to fit alongside your executive leadership, finance, programs, procurement, and outside professionals so your staff can understand and sustain the resulting systems.
Accessibility is treated as an operating requirement. Deliverables are designed for practical use and accessibility, with WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508 principles applied to digital and document work.
Rural Horizons Strategy
If your organization needs clearer direction before it pursues funding or launches another major initiative, Rural Horizons Strategy provides a separate strategic-planning and implementation pathway built around disciplined choices, board alignment, and execution.
Professional Boundaries
RIG is not a law firm, independent audit or attestation practice, or general bookkeeping service. Your management team remains responsible for organizational decisions, records, reports, and certifications. When your engagement requires legal, independent accounting, engineering, cybersecurity, or other specialist expertise, RIG works alongside or refers the appropriate professional.
RIG does not accept finder fees, referral fees, or success-based compensation and does not provide private-foundation or individual-donor fundraising services.
Where You Can Work With RIG
Your organization can be located anywhere in the United States. Engagements are remote-first, with in-person work available when the scope requires it.
Procurement Data
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Legal Business Name | The Rural Impact Group LLC |
| Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) | QH7BM17N74B1 |
| CAGE Code | 20Y22 |
| Primary NAICS | 541611 |
| Business Type | Limited Liability Company |
| SAM.gov Status | Active |