Community Impact · Evidence-Based Practice

Your data is already
telling a story.
Let’s make your
funders hear it.

You do transformational work. Measurement Ally translates what you do into the language that sustains it — rigorous, human, funder-ready evidence built from the data you already have.

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22,194+
Young people whose impact we’ve helped make visible
NAMI Franklin County — Ending the Silence Program
6
Years of untouched SurveyMonkey data — operationalized into a longitudinal impact report
From surveys to board-ready narrative
200%
Post-COVID program growth — documented, visualized, funder-ready
NAMI Franklin County, 2021–2025
“
Most evaluation tools are built to find what’s missing. Ours are built to find what’s present.
Dr. Erica L. Tartt, PhD — Founder, Measurement Ally
What We Do

Five ways we turn
your work into evidence

We embed early — before the grant is written, before the program launches — so measurement is built in from the start, not scrambled at reporting time. Every engagement is designed to produce something you can actually use.
01
Impact Reports
Big, clear, board-ready narratives that visualize your program's reach and outcomes over time. Not just what happened this year — what your work has built across years. Designed to be shared, presented, and remembered.
Annual · Multi-year · Longitudinal
02
Funder-Ready Data Narratives
We translate your outcomes into the language grant makers require — evidence-based, methodologically sound, and compelling. The same story, told in the register that survives a program officer's scrutiny.
Grant Reports · LOI Support · Funder Briefs
03
Outcome Tracking Systems
You've been collecting data for years. SurveyMonkey responses, intake forms, attendance records. We operationalize what you already have — building systems that surface patterns, track progress, and produce reports without starting from scratch every cycle.
Data Systems · Survey Analysis · Dashboards
04
Grant Infrastructure
Every fact a winning application needs already lives in your coalition — the letter your clinical partner will sign, the numbers your program director keeps, the review your CFO would give. We turn the relationships you've already built into a submission-ready application: narratives, budgets, attachments, portal support, and the evaluation plan designed in from page one. Your partnership is already the grant infrastructure. We make it fundable.
Federal Applications · Coalition Grants · Submission Support
05
Strategic Consultation
Program design, evaluation strategy, logic model development. We think with you — about what you're trying to prove, what you're measuring, and how to structure your work so the evidence builds naturally. This is the conversation most evaluation firms skip. We turn validated research and real-world needs into working systems, not abstract theory.
Logic Models · Program Design · Strategy
How We Engage

The right scope
for where you are

Every engagement is fixed in scope and priced transparently — so you know exactly what you're getting before we begin.

Tier 1
Evidence Sprint
$750–$2,000

You have a deadline. We have a framework. Let’s produce one high-impact deliverable — fast.

2–4 weeks · Fixed scope
Ideal for: Funder brief, LOI data narrative, single-cycle impact summary, or logic model audit.
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Most Common
Tier 2
Impact Partnership
$7,500–$20,000

We embed in your program cycle — operationalizing your data and building the evidence infrastructure that sustains your funding.

Program-cycle engagement
  • —Outcome tracking system setup
  • —Longitudinal data operationalization
  • —Impact report (board + funder-ready)
  • —Up to two revision cycles
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Tier 3
Strategic Alliance
$30,000+

Full evaluation architecture — from program design through multi-year funder narrative — built as an ongoing partnership.

Ongoing · Multi-year
  • —Evaluation strategy
  • —Logic model development
  • —Data system build
  • —Annual reporting
  • —Retained consultation access
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Client Story
NAMI Franklin County
Central Ohio · Mental Health Education · Youth-Serving Nonprofit

NAMI Franklin County had been running their Ending the Silence program since 2018 — collecting SurveyMonkey responses from every school visit, every year. The data existed. The story didn’t.

Measurement Ally operationalized six years of participant data into a longitudinal impact report documenting program reach, learning outcomes, demographic representation, and year-over-year growth across more than 30 Central Ohio schools. The result was a board-ready, funder-ready, community-ready document that made 200% post-COVID program growth visible for the first time.

Our take — they had years of SurveyMonkey responses sitting in an account. We turned it into a story their board could present, their funders could trust, and their community could be proud of.
22,194+
Total participants served across all years — made visible in one place for the first time
90%
Of youth participants know warning signs of mental health conditions — a core program goal, now documented longitudinally
30+
Partner schools across Central Ohio — reach visualized for the first time in program history
6
Years of previously unoperationalized data — now a longitudinal narrative their funders can follow
Most Recent Build · July 2026

First meeting to submitted federal application — in 19 days.

A seven-organization coalition serving youth mental health across three Ohio counties. One multi-year federal application: full narratives, budget architecture, subaward structure, attachments, and live portal submission — with the evaluation plan designed in from page one, not bolted on at reporting time.

Every fact the application needed already lived in the partnership — the letters, the numbers, the credentials, the relationships. Our work was assembling it in the register funders require. Your partnership is already the grant infrastructure. We make it fundable.

7
Organizations aligned — applicant, subrecipients, clinical and school partners
3
Ohio county sites structured into one coordinated program design
19
Days from first working meeting to submitted federal application
The Measurement Ally Difference

Built differently.
On purpose.

01
Justice-Centered Methodology
Our evaluation frameworks are built on QuantCrit methodology — a justice-centered approach that asks not "what is missing?" but "what is present?" When measurement tools are designed to find deficits, they find deficits. Ours are designed to surface the brilliance already in your data.
02
Longitudinal by Design
Single-year snapshots don't build funder trust. Trend data does. We build outcome tracking systems that show your growth over time — giving funders the evidence they need to make multi-year investments in your work, not just one-cycle grants.
03
Two Languages. One Report.
Your community knows what you do. Your funders need to see how you know it works. We write in both registers simultaneously — so your impact report feels true to your voice and passes rigorous funder review. You don't have to choose between the two.
Founded By

Dr. Erica L. Tartt, PhD

Measurement Ally was built on a simple observation: community organizations doing transformational work for youth are consistently underfunded because they can’t prove impact in the language funders require. Not because the impact isn’t there — because the measurement infrastructure isn’t.

Dr. Tartt’s doctoral research used Latent Class Analysis on over 7,000 Black adolescents drawn from national CDC data — demonstrating that the patterns of suppressed resilience and unrecognized brilliance are structural, not individual. That research is the foundation of every evaluation framework Measurement Ally builds.

PhD, University of California Santa Barbara — Quantitative Methodology, 2023
Co-author, Psychological Methods — “Ten Frequently Asked Questions About Latent Transition Analysis” (2023)
Dissertation: “Unraveling an Epidemic of Hopelessness: A Latent Class Analysis of Black Adolescent Student Experiences” — UC Santa Barbara, 2023
Manuscript under review, Review of Research in Education — AI-Assisted QuantCrit Meta-Synthesis
Research Director, US-Squared Research Institute — 501(c)(3) education research nonprofit
20+ years in education research, evaluation, and community-centered practice
Dr. Erica L. Tartt, PhD — Founder & CEO, Measurement Ally
Dr. Erica L. Tartt, PhD
Founder & CEO · Measurement Ally

Ready to make your
impact impossible to ignore?

Let’s start with a conversation about what you’re trying to prove and who needs to see it.

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Email
erica@measurementally.com
Phone
614.647.4554
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