Dive Brief:
- Idaho this week announced it has updated its grant-management system with Euna Grants, a cloud-based platform from Euna Solutions that manages the full grant lifecycle and integrates with the state’s existing enterprise resource planning platform.
- The modernization project consolidates multiple, varied grant management processes across state agencies into one statewide system. “Now agencies can see budgets and payments instantly, and the work is faster, more accurate, and much easier to manage,” Amy Edmondson, project manager at the Idaho State Controller’s Office, said in a news release.
- As a result of the update, state reimbursement timelines shrank from three to four weeks to one day.
Dive Insight:
Modernization projects can often be headache-inducing in the public sector, where just 13% of large software projects succeed. Idaho has also struggled with such efforts in the past.
A 2023 upgrade to Luma, the state’s enterprise resource planning platform, led to financial misstatements of hundreds of millions of dollars for some state agencies, the Idaho Capital Sun reported. The errors caused delays in statewide audits and delayed submissions for required audits of federal funds.
The Idaho State Controller’s Office spearheaded the Euna Grants project to unify processes.
Across the U.S., many agencies “still rely on spreadsheets, email workflows, and disconnected systems to administer grants,” according to Euna Solutions, and Idaho was experiencing many of these challenges. “These manual processes made it difficult to track funding in real time, maintain consistent documentation, and process reimbursements quickly.”
In incorporating its new system, the state built a model that other agencies can adopt with shared standards and testing processes, Brian Haney, chief customer officer at Euna Solutions, said in a news release.
“That approach is helping Idaho scale modern grant management statewide while continuing to improve how funds move to the programs communities rely on,” Haney said.
In its 2025 annual report, the Idaho Council on Domestic Violence and Victim Assistance said it worked with the State Controller’s Office for two years on improving its grant administration processes and the move to Euna Solutions. The new grant-management system “resulted in tremendous efficiencies,” according to the agency, and “significantly reduced processing time resulting in faster payments to victim services programs.”
Correction: This article has been updated to correct the name of the Euna Solutions platform Idaho is using. The platform is Euna Grants.
