Tulipan Solutions
FINANCE · RECOVERY · DATA · OPERATIONS

We Help Our Clients Get Smarter — and Get Results.

Not by telling you how it ought to be. We ask good questions, identify the resources, clear the obstacles, and do the work alongside you until the results are in hand.

Tulipan helps state agencies expand affordable housing. Client in image: Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
Tulipan helps state agencies expand affordable housing.Client in image: Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
Tulipan helps cities manage recovery after a disaster. Client in image: City of St. Louis.
Tulipan helps cities manage recovery after a disaster.Client in image: City of St. Louis
Tulipan finances and builds schools across the United States. Client in image: Lee Montessori PCS.
Tulipan finances and builds schools across the United States.Client in image: Lee Montessori PCS
Tulipan rebuilds schools after disasters. Client in image: Recovery School District of New Orleans.
Tulipan rebuilds schools after disasters.Client in image: Recovery School District of New Orleans
Tulipan helps clients secure federal funding for infrastructure, housing, education, and other programs. Client in image: Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
Tulipan helps clients secure federal funding for infrastructure, housing, education, and other programs.Client in image: Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
Tulipan serves as program manager and owner’s representative on construction programs exceeding $1 billion. Client in image: Recovery School District of New Orleans.
Tulipan serves as program manager and owner’s representative on construction programs exceeding $1 billion.Client in image: Recovery School District of New Orleans
Tulipan helps airports — commercial, general aviation, and regional — fund landside and airside improvements. Client in image: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
Tulipan helps airports — commercial, general aviation, and regional — fund landside and airside improvements.Client in image: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
Tulipan helps utilities design and implement creative financing to add grid capacity and improve reliability and resilience.
Tulipan helps utilities design and implement creative financing to add grid capacity and improve reliability and resilience.
Tulipan works with communities to improve conditions in urban and rural areas across the nation. Client in image: Lee Montessori PCS.
Tulipan works with communities to improve conditions in urban and rural areas across the nation.Client in image: Lee Montessori PCS
Tulipan’s team has served our country and our communities — in the U.S. Military, the Peace Corps, and Teach For America.
Tulipan’s team has served our country and our communities — in the U.S. Military, the Peace Corps, and Teach For America.
The Tulipan team works side-by-side with our clients to ensure their success. Client in image: Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.
The Tulipan team works side-by-side with our clients to ensure their success.Client in image: Department of Hawaiian Home Lands
MEMBER
American Association of Airport Executives Edison Electric Institute National American Indian Housing Council National Emergency Management Association
WHO WE SERVE

I Work for a…

Pick the one closest to you and we'll show you where we tend to help.

SKILLS

We're Good At…

Every client gets every skill. Pick one below to see how we put it to work.

Who We Serve · Government

Get More Out of Every Dollar — and Every Crisis.

City hall, the statehouse, or a federal program office: everyone wants results now. We stack the financing, keep reimbursements on the table, and make the progress visible.

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Disaster Response that Pays BackRespond in ways that keep FEMA and CDBG-DR reimbursement in reach.
Innovative FinancingFederal, state, and local sources stacked into a plan that actually closes.
Owner's Rep for Big ProjectsHousing and infrastructure projects delivered with someone on your side of the table.
Dashboards Leadership UsesData that makes your wins visible and your next decision easier.
Who We Serve · Utility / Energy

Resilience You Can Pay For.

Storms, load growth, and aging infrastructure all land on the same budget. We help utilities plan the resilience work, find the funding for it, and make the case to boards and regulators.

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Load Growth PlanningLarge new loads served reliably — and paid for fairly.
Resilience FundingFederal and state dollars for hardening, storm recovery, and new generation.
Storm Cost RecoveryFEMA Public Assistance and mutual-aid documentation done right from day one.
Data for Boards and RegulatorsReporting that tells the story clearly — and improves operations along the way.
Who We Serve · Education

Run the System Like the Complex Organization It Is.

We've led schools and school networks. Whether you're a district, a campus, or a state agency, we know the board meeting, the budget cycle, and the data that never quite lines up.

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School FinanceBudgets, bonds, and facilities financing that hold up to the board and the auditor.
Education Data SystemsIntegrated dashboards teachers and boards both trust — classroom, school, district, and statewide views.
Enrollment and Lottery SystemsUnified enrollment and lottery design that families trust and districts can run.
Recovery after DisasterReopening campuses and recovering costs when the worst happens.
Who We Serve · Nonprofit or P3

Scale Your Impact Without Losing Your Footing.

Mission-driven organizations and public-private partnerships take on projects far bigger than their staff. We bring the financing, the project discipline, and the proof.

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Owner's Rep for HousingMajor housing and infrastructure projects, managed by someone who answers to you.
Creative Capital StacksFederal, state, local, and P3 structures — including the ones most people miss.
Show Funders Your ImpactVisualizations that make your results obvious at a glance.
Disaster Recovery and ReimbursementEligible nonprofits can recover costs too — we make sure you do.
Who We Serve · Aviation

Keeping the Landside and Airside Moving — and Funded.

Terminals, resilience, and the next big capital program all compete for the same dollars. We help airports find more of them and make the case to the board and the region.

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FAA and Discretionary GrantsAIP, BIL, and resilience programs — identified, won, and administered.
Terminal and Capital FinancingFinancing strategy for the projects that define the next 20 years.
Storm Recovery for AirportsFEMA Public Assistance and resilience funding when weather gets in the way.
Data for the Board and the RegionDashboards that make the airport's economic story plain.
Who We Serve · Private Industry

Work with the Public Sector Without Getting Lost in It.

Developers, energy companies, and contractors need public partners, public money, or public approvals. We've sat on the other side of that table — and we know how to get to a yes.

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Partnership NavigationP3 structures, incentives, and approvals — and who actually decides.
Public Funding for Private-Led ProjectsFederal and state programs that fit data centers, energy, and housing.
Disaster Recovery for BusinessesThe recovery programs private firms can access — and how to qualify.
Reporting Public Partners AcceptData and compliance that keep the partnership — and the money — intact.
Skill · Disaster Recovery

Week One Decides Year Three.

How you respond in the first days determines what FEMA and CDBG-DR will pay for years later. We help you get the response right, the paperwork right, and the reimbursement in the bank.

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Response that Preserves EligibilityProcurement, documentation, and decisions that hold up to federal review.
FEMA Public Assistance & HMGPProject worksheets, mitigation funding, and the appeals when they're warranted.
CDBG-DR ProgramsAction plans, housing and infrastructure programs, and HUD compliance.
Closeout Without ClawbacksKeeping every dollar you were awarded through the final audit.
Skill · Innovative Public Finance

Turn a Funding Gap into a Closed Deal.

Federal grants are one tool. The projects that actually get built stack them with bonds, state and local sources, and partnership structures most people never consider.

Talk to Us About Financing →
Capital Stack StrategyWhich sources, in what order, with what strings attached.
Bonds and Revenue StructuresPlain-English analysis of what the market will support and what it costs.
State and Local SourcesRevolving funds, tax tools, and programs that rarely make the first list.
P3 and Partnership StructuresDeals that share risk sensibly and survive the public vote.
Skill · Federal Funding

Know Which Programs Fit — and Win Them.

FEMA, DOT, DOE, USDA, HUD, FAA. We know which programs fit your project, how to write for the reviewers, and how to keep every dollar through closeout.

Talk to Us About a Grant →
Program IdentificationAn honest read on where you're competitive and where you're not.
Competitive ApplicationsNarratives, benefit-cost analysis, and the partners that make a case stronger.
Grants AdministrationReporting, draws, and procurement that keep the money moving.
Compliance and CloseoutThe fine print, read early, so there are no surprises in the audit.
Skill · Data Strategy

Make Your Successes Obvious.

Dashboards and data systems that show leadership, funders, and the public what's working — and make the next decision a data-driven one instead of a guess.

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Dashboards Leadership UsesBuilt for the people who make decisions, not for the people who build dashboards.
Integrated Data SystemsConnecting the systems that were never meant to talk to each other.
Reporting for Funders and RegulatorsThe story, told clearly, in the format they expect.
Data-Driven ManagementRoutines and tools that put the numbers in front of the right people every week.
Skill · Program Management

Someone on Your Side of the Table.

Owner's representation for housing, infrastructure, and major capital projects — from capital stack to ribbon cutting, with your interests the only ones we're paid to protect.

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Owner's RepresentationManaging designers, contractors, and funders so you don't have to.
Housing and Infrastructure ProjectsThe projects with the most rules, the most funders, and the least room for error.
Schedule and Budget ControlEarly warnings instead of late surprises.
Program ManagementRunning a portfolio of projects as one program, with one set of numbers.
Skill · Compliance

Compliance that Never Slips the Schedule.

Every federal dollar comes with rules — environmental and historic reviews, procurement, reporting. We run them early and in parallel with the work, so paperwork is never the reason a project waits or a dollar gets clawed back.

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NEPAThe right level of review, scoped early, so it finishes on time.
Section 106Historic property consultation handled before it becomes a headline.
Floodplain and WetlandsThe eight-step process and permits, run alongside design instead of after it.
Procurement and Grant Rules2 CFR 200, Davis-Bacon, and the documentation that survives an audit.
Applied AI, Carefully, Intentionally.Where it helps lower costs or shorten timelines, we use AI to take the grind out of operations — inside your security boundaries, with your data staying yours.
HOW WE WORK

We Know Who You Are. We Won't Tell You How It Ought to Be.

Most of us spent years inside the agencies, utilities, and school systems we now serve. So we start with questions, not a playbook — then roll up our sleeves and help you become the best possible version of yourselves.

Politically FluentWe read the room — the council, the board, the regulator — and plan for it.
Small by DesignPrincipals do the work. The people in the proposal are the people on your project.
Built to Leave You StrongerWe work inside your systems and cadence, so the capacity stays when we go.
CLIENTS AND PARTNERS WE'VE WORKED WITH
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport Plexos Group Burns & McDonnell STL Recovers — City of St. Louis

Start with a Question. We'll Bring a Few of Our Own.

Planning ahead, mid-crisis, or somewhere in between — tell us where you are, and we'll tell you what we see.

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