Simon Dinits is the founder of Security Grant Advisors, the firm that helps nonprofits secure federal and state funding for physical security improvements.

Earlier in his federal career, he served as a program management consultant at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, supporting the development of explosive detection technologies. Dinits then spent fourteen years as a federal agent, most of that time with the Diplomatic Security Service of the U.S. Department of State — the agency responsible for protecting American embassies, consulates, and diplomatic personnel worldwide.

 During his tenure he carried out security missions at U.S. embassies abroad, served on the protective detail of the U.S. Secretary of State, and provided security for dozens of visiting foreign dignitaries during their official visits to the United States. His work on federal investigations was recognized by the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the Eastern District of Virginia, the Southern District of New York, and the District of Columbia, and he received the Attorney General’s Award for Fraud Prevention, one of the most prestigious recognitions available to federal investigators in the United States. This career-long focus on securing people, facilities, and critical infrastructure gives Dinits a depth of physical security expertise that directly informs every application that Security Grant Advisors prepares.

Security Grant Advisors grew out of firsthand experience. In 2014, Dinits volunteered to help his own synagogue navigate a federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program application. That application was funded, and word spread. Over the following years he continued volunteering for other houses of worship and nonprofits in his community, learning through direct experience the challenges that small organizations face when pursuing complex federal funding — the unfamiliar terminology, the documentation burden, the gap between needing security and knowing how to pay for it. That volunteer work became the foundation of a practice, and in 2023 Dinits incorporated Security Grant Advisors to achieve scale and help as many nonprofits as possible.

Today, with more than twelve years of hands-on experience in federal and state grant programs, Security Grant Advisors serves applicants pursuing the federal NSGP (both NSGP-UA and NSGP-S tracks) and the fourteen state-level security grant programs that fund houses of worship and at-risk nonprofits across New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Arizona, Colorado, Ohio, Maryland, Tennessee, Washington, and Georgia.