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Rural Healthcare &
Grant Consulting

Founded in 2007

Based in Kansas - Serving the Rural Midwest

Introducing Our Group

Grant development, funding strategy, and the counsel that carries a project from idea to award — for rural healthcare providers, communities, and the foundations that support them.

-Our first clients are still our clients — 19 years on.

- $25M+ secured for rural organizations.

-Zero grant-related audit findings under our administration.

From Idea to Funded Reality

Rural hospitals deserve the same caliber of consulting that larger urban systems obtain - at a reasonable rate. That conviction is why this practice exists, and why it serves rural organizations exclusively: we live rural life ourselves, we love it, and we intend to see it succeed. Every service we offer exists to move rural projects from idea to funded reality.

And the moment matters. This is the largest rural health funding era in a generation — historic dollars are on the table right now, and they reward organizations that come prepared. That preparation is what we do.

Service Lines

01

Grant Development & Funding Strategy

From idea to funded reality. Year-round opportunity screening, projects built to win, funding structured across every appropriate source.

05

Foundation Development & Stewardship

The policies, governance, and endowment structures that let your foundation honor every gift with confidence.

02

Grant Administration & Technical Assistance

Compliance, reporting, and audit-ready records — or your own staff trained to run it all. Zero client audit findings in 19 years.

Rural Healthcare and Grant Consulting 

06

Healthcare Strategy & Advisory

Service line analysis, business planning, and board counsel, built on the same case-building behind our funded projects.

03

CHNA, Implementation Strategy & CHIP

CHNA and IS - the assessment the IRS requires, built as the strategic instrument your hospital will actually use.  CHIP - for your community.  Fixed fee, one price.

07

Grant Training & Workshops

Two decades of grant work, taught to your whole team — including AI-augmented grant development, the session rural organizations need most right now. One flat fee, materials they keep.

04

Capital & Fundraising Campaigns

The complete campaign machine — case, materials, strategy, giving vehicles — with your people prepared to make the asks.

Meet the Principal

Nick McLeod, principal of The McLeod Group

Nick McLeod

Principal and Owner

Led by the Principal, Every Time

 

All client work is led and delivered personally by Nick McLeod — nearly two decades of rural Kansas grant development, grant administration, and healthcare consulting. When you call, you get the person whose name is on the door: not an account manager, not a junior analyst handed your file. It’s how the work stays excellent, and it’s why the clients who hired this firm in 2007 are still clients today.

“We have had a great deal of success in working with Nick [McLeod] on grants . . . focused on improving lives in SEK and Kansas.”

 

— Brian Williams, CEO, Labette Health

Results That Compound

Since 2007, we've secured more than $25 million for rural organizations — hospitals, cities, schools, and nonprofits in towns most consulting firms have never heard of. Awards range from $5,000 community grants to multi-million-dollar hospital capital projects.

But the number we're proudest of isn't a dollar figure: it's how often the same clients keep winning. When awards are managed well and reported cleanly, funders come back — and that's why our results compound year after year.

Start With a Conversation

The first conversation is free — and it’s an honest one. Bring your objectives, your questions, or the project you’ve been trying to fund. If we don’t believe it’s a go, we’ll tell you right there. And if it is, we’ll tell you exactly how we’d help.

"The McLeod Group has helped my organization secure grants from small to large. We have worked together now for several years and his expertise in grant writing is exceptional. The best part of all is that Mr. [McLeod] knows our hospital well and has a local presence. It is nice to have a consultant who is proactive and brings me opportunities that I never know are available. You cannot go wrong when The McLeod Group is a part of your team!"
Labette Health Foundation

Rod Landrum, Executive Director, Labette Health Foundation (retired)

"We have had a great deal of success in working with Nick [McLeod] on grants . . . focused on improving lives in SEK and Kansas."
Labette Health

Brian Williams, CEO,

Labette Health

"The Pratt Health Foundation has retained the grant writing and administrative services of the McLeod consulting group. The principal, Nick [McLeod], understands the private and federal grant landscape as well as providing wise administrative assistance. He has written successful grant applications and provided excellent counsel for the Foundation. I would highly recommend his services."
Pratt Health Foundation

DeWayne Bryan, Executive Director,

Pratt Health Foundation (retired)

"I have worked with Nick on three different grant proposals regarding Integrated Care through embedding a behaviorist into a primary care facility. Through Nick's effort and skill, we were successful in receiving a planning grant, an implementation grant, and a continuation grant. Nick is very thorough, thinks of great questions, anticipates questions from grant sources, writes skillfully, and is a pleasure to work with. I would recommend him and his services to anyone."
Labette Center for Mental Health Services

Matthew Atteberry,

Executive Director,

Labette Center for Mental Health Services

"Since having The McLeod Group come on board with us, the Pratt Police Department has received over $175,000 in funds from grants that Nick has found for us! The Pratt Police Department and the citizens of Pratt, KS are very fortunate to be able to have the McLeod Group helping the efforts of keeping this great community safe!"
Pratt Police Department

Chief Nate Humble,

Pratt Police Department

(retired)

"Mr. [McLeod] put my vision for my school into a professional proposal from A to Z, no detail was left to chance. After multiple attempts on my own, Mr. [McLeod] was successful the first time in obtaining a $400,000 grant for my school, the largest to be awarded in our county to date."
Service Valley Charter Academy

Mikel Ward, Principal,

Service Valley Charter Academy (retired)

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