Google Ad Grants · Account 393-799-0684

Endeavor Miami — Account Audit & Campaign Mix Plan to Deploy the Full $10,000/Month Grant

A full read-only audit of the Google Ads account and GA4 property, the 2026 Ad Grants rulebook, and a seven-campaign mix engineered to move the account from 3% grant utilization to full deployment.

Prepared August 1, 2026 Google Ads 393-799-0684 GA4 property 355244061 Windows 30d / 90d / 13 months

Verdict — the account is structurally unable to spend the grant

Endeavor Miami used $343 of its $10,000 grant last month — 3.4%. Over the past 12 months it averaged $536/month (5.4%). This is not a bidding problem or a budget problem: the budget is already $407/day. It is a surface-area problem compounded by a broken measurement loop. Exactly 5 keywords are live across the entire account (out of 290), one campaign is running out of seven, and the conversion actions that Smart Bidding optimizes against stopped firing in July because they were tied to a page that now redirects. Fixing those two things, then adding the campaign types Google opened to Grants accounts in 2025, is what closes the $9,657/month gap.

Grant used (30d)
3.4%
$343 of $10,000
Live keywords
5
of 290 in account
Conversions (Jul)
0
25 in June — signal lost
Impression share
10.0%
90% lost to rank
Avg CPC
$4.13
$8.10 on top keyword
Broken ad URLs
10
of 25 destinations
Spend on brand
80%
$1,150 of $1,444 (90d)
GA4 bot traffic
56%
7,005 of 12,306 sessions

1Where the account stands today

One enabled campaign, two ad groups, five live keywords. Six campaigns sit paused with $3,314/day of budget attached to them and, in several cases, destination URLs that no longer resolve.

CampaignStatusBiddingBudget/day Impr 30dClicksCost CTRConvAd groups
Website traffic-GeneralEnabled Max Conversions$407.001,20283 $342.936.91%02
Endeavor Summit 2024PausedMax Clicks $1,000.0000$0 02
Website traffic-SUPPausedMax Clicks $750.0000$0 01
Endeavor Pitch CompetitionPausedMax Conversions $500.0000$0 01
Website traffic-APINPausedMax Clicks $442.1500$0 01
USATodayPausedMax Conversions $400.0000$0 01
ELAB ApplicationsPausedMax Clicks $222.1100$0 02

13-month spend history

MonthImpressionsClicksCost CTRAvg CPCConversionsGrant used
Jul 20252,42187$9073.59%$10.4209.1%
Aug 20253,657142$1,4523.88%$10.23014.5%
Sep 20252,43495$1,0843.90%$11.41610.8%
Oct 202563829$484.55%$1.6500.5%
Nov 202582753$2856.41%$5.3792.9%
Dec 202567343$1496.39%$3.4571.5%
Jan 202696949$1645.06%$3.3461.6%
Feb 202695166$2996.94%$4.52253.0%
Mar 20261,434101$2447.04%$2.4192.4%
Apr 20262,766119$6304.30%$5.3076.3%
May 20262,123140$9266.59%$6.6299.3%
Jun 20262,143125$4365.83%$3.49254.4%
Jul 20261,22484$3436.86%$4.0803.4%

Best month in 13 was $1,452 (14.5% of grant). Total 13-month spend: ~$6,967 — roughly seven weeks of a fully-deployed grant, spread over more than a year. Cumulative forfeited budget: ~$123,000.

2Why it cannot spend — six root causes

Ranked by how much spend each one unlocks when fixed.

Root cause 1 · Critical

Only 5 keywords in the account are actually eligible to serve

The account holds 290 keywords. 227 sit in paused campaigns. Of the 63 in the one enabled campaign, 58 are paused. The entire grant is being spent through five broad-match keywords:

KeywordMatchAd groupImpr 90d ClicksCTRAvg CPCCost
EntrepreneurBroadEntrepreneurship2,249984.36%$8.10$793.38
Endeavor EntrepreneurBroadEntrepreneurship2,5461044.08%$2.48$258.33
startup businessBroadStartups18152.76%$10.55$52.75
Endeavor ScaleUpBroadEntrepreneurship200%$0
start upBroadStartups100%$0

Five broad keywords cannot absorb $329/day in a single metro. Search impression share is 9.99% with 90.01% lost to rank — Google has demand it is not letting the account buy, and zero budget-lost impression share confirms budget is not the constraint.

Root cause 2 · Critical

The conversion signal died in July — Smart Bidding is now flying blind

The campaign runs Maximize Conversions. Its two primary conversion actions are GA4 page-load triggers:

  • Submit lead form (Page load https://endeavormiami.org/scaleup/)
  • Submit lead form (Page load https://endeavormiami.org/endeavorlab/)

/scaleup/ now 301-redirects to the homepage. The page-load event can no longer fire, so the conversion no longer imports. The monthly series shows the break precisely:

Monthscaleup actionendeavorlab actionTotal
Feb 202671825
Mar 2026459
Apr 2026437
May 2026279
Jun 202617825
Jul 2026000
Two compounding failures Maximize Conversions with zero conversions bids conservatively — which is a large part of the 90% rank-lost impression share. And Ad Grants policy requires at least one conversion reported per month. The account is now in breach on top of underspending. A second issue sits underneath: all four "Submit lead form" actions show include_in_conversions_metric = false, so even when they fired they never populated the Conversions column the bidder reads.
Root cause 3 · High

80% of spend goes to brand and to the wrong "Endeavor"

Search termImprClicksCTR Avg CPCCost 90dConvRead
endeavor miami41213532.77%$4.32$583.1520Own brand — CPC far too high
endeavor2,9511153.90%$4.93$566.749Wrong Endeavor (WME/UFC group)
endevor15274.61%$7.27$50.900Misspelling — no conversions
capital clubs3266.67%$19.40$38.790Irrelevant, $19 CPC
experiencia endeavor25231.19%$8.73$26.2001.19% CTR drags account
tech accelerator11100%$19.83$19.830$19.83 for one click

$1,150 of $1,444 in 90-day search-term spend (80%) went to endeavor miami + endeavor. The generic term competes against Endeavor Group Holdings, the Hollywood talent conglomerate — 2,951 impressions at 3.90% CTR is the signature of showing to the wrong audience, and it is quietly pulling the account toward the 5% CTR floor.

There are zero campaign-level negative keywords and zero shared negative lists in the entire account. Three ad-group negatives exist (Incubator, Planning, Think tank) and they sit in a paused campaign.

Root cause 4 · High

Ten of 25 ad destinations do not resolve

DestinationStatusWhere it is used
summit24.endeavormiami.org/ (+3 paths)DNS deadEndeavor Summit 2024 — 3 enabled sitelinks
apin.endeavormiami.org/ (+4 paths)TimeoutWebsite traffic-APIN — 4 enabled sitelinks
docs.google.com/forms/…/viewformhttps://endeavormiami.org/scaleup/404Website traffic-SUP — "Apply Here" sitelink
endeavormiami.org/scaleup/ · /scaleup/criteria/ · /scaleup/past-editions/301 → homepage7 sitelinks + the primary conversion trigger
endeavormiami.org/endeavor-companies/301 → homepageWebsite traffic-General sitelink

The "Apply Here" sitelink is a malformed URL — two addresses concatenated, producing a hard 404 on the single most important action in the account. Under Ad Grants, a broken or low-quality landing page experience is a stated compliance trigger, not just a UX problem.

Root cause 5 · High

Geo targeting contradicts the stated strategy

The enabled campaign targets 16 countries: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico and Bolivia — in English and Spanish. The brief is Miami and South Florida.

GA4 confirms where the value actually is: Florida delivered 1,323 sessions, 818 engaged and 116 key events in 90 days — more key events than every other region combined. Meanwhile continent-wide targeting is what let experiencia endeavor (Spanish, 1.19% CTR) into the auction.

Nuance worth keeping Broad geography is not automatically wrong for Endeavor — it is a genuinely global network, and mission-relevant reach is permitted. The plan below therefore splits it deliberately: application and partner campaigns run Miami/South Florida; content and thought-leadership campaigns run wider, because that is where the impression volume needed to absorb $329/day actually exists.
Root cause 6 · Medium

Structural and asset gaps

  • No Google Tag Manager. Every conversion is a fragile page-load rule instead of a real event. This is why the "Apply Today" click — the primary business action — cannot be measured today.
  • Ad group "Startups" is at 2.17% CTR over 60 days (138 impr, 3 clicks). The account overall is at 6.91% and safe, but this ad group is the drag.
  • No account-level sitelinks. Account assets are 4 callouts, 1 structured snippet and 2 logos. All 38 sitelinks are campaign-level, and 7 of them point at dead or redirecting URLs.
  • 35 single-word keywords sit in the account (Incubator, Capital, Network, Growth, Business, miami…). Non-branded single words breach Ad Grants policy. They are in paused campaigns today — they must not be re-enabled as-is.
  • Ad strength is AVERAGE on both live ads, and both point every headline at the homepage.

3Measurement reality check (GA4 property 355244061)

Before building campaigns, the numbers everyone reports on need to be trustworthy. Two of them are not.

Channel mix — last 90 days

ChannelSessionsEngagedEng. rateKey events
Direct8,8197458.4%107
Organic Search2,7011,60359.3%129
Paid Search32618757.4%34
Referral30518962.0%22
AI Assistant693855.1%7
Organic Social423276.2%1

Geography — last 90 days

Country / regionSessionsEngagedEng. rate
Singapore6,3132043.2%
US — Florida1,32381861.8%
China — Xinjiang57471.2%
US — New York32018658.1%
US — California29815552.0%
US — Virginia2288738.2%
Finding — roughly 56% of reported traffic is not human Singapore (6,313 sessions, 3.2% engagement, ~12s average) and China/Xinjiang (574 sessions, 1.2% engagement) account for 7,005 of 12,306 sessions. They arrive as "Direct", which is what drags that channel to an 8.4% engagement rate against 59% for organic. A referrer named trafficheap.cc also appears with 108 sessions — a literal traffic-selling service. Every traffic and conversion-rate number Endeavor Miami currently reports is inflated by roughly half. This does not affect Google Ads billing, but it does affect every "how are we doing" conversation, and it will corrupt any GA4-based audience or Smart Bidding signal. Recommended: an internal-traffic/bot filter in GA4 plus a Cloudflare bot rule before establishing baselines.
Good news — paid traffic quality is genuinely strong Paid Search shows 57.4% engagement, 249s average session duration and a 32.8% bounce rate on the homepage — better than site average. The clicks being bought are good clicks. There are simply nowhere near enough of them. Paid landing pages, 90d: / 195 sessions · 24 key events · 32.8% bounce  |  /entrepreneur-experience 60 sessions · 7 key events · 45% bounce.

Content inventory — the raw material for a spend engine

The WordPress site holds 179 posts and 127 pages across 26 categories. This is a large, credible content surface and it is the single biggest untapped asset in the account.

CategoryPostsCategoryPostsCategoryPosts
Press34Ecosystem11High Impact6
Mentor Spotlight33Research10Hispanic Heritage6
EndeavorLAB18Women's History7Network6
Endeavor ScaleUp14Endeavor Entrepreneur6Access to Capital4
In the News14Events4Marketing Essentials4

Today the blog earns 92 pageviews and Press 81 in 90 days, with zero paid clicks routed to either. The 2025 Impact Report PDF was downloaded 108 times and file downloads spiked to 67 events in July — evidence of real demand for gated-style content that is currently untracked as a conversion.

4The 2026 Google Ad Grants rulebook — and what changed

Two 2025 changes materially alter what is possible, and both are directly relevant here.

Change 1 — Performance Max is now allowed Rolled out through late 2024 and available to all Grant accounts since January 2025. On Grants it serves Search and Maps only (no YouTube, Display, Discover or Gmail). Critically, PMax campaigns are exempt from the 5% CTR requirement, so they add spend without endangering account compliance. Practitioners managing Grant accounts report struggling accounts gaining "a couple of thousand dollars more" per month from PMax alone.
Change 2 — AI Max for Search Rolled out to Grant accounts from late May 2025. Brings broader query matching and asset automation to Search campaigns while staying inside the Search-only boundary. Useful as a phase-2 lever once conversion data is flowing. Separately, 2026 moved nonprofit verification from TechSoup to Goodstack.

Compliance scorecard

Ad Grants requirementThresholdEndeavor Miami todayStatus
Account CTR≥5% monthly; two consecutive misses → deactivation (90-day grace for new accounts) 6.91% account-wide (30d). Ad group "Startups" at 2.17%.At risk
Report ≥1 conversion per monthMandatory since Jan 2018 / all Smart Bidding accounts 0 conversions in July 2026Breach
Conversions must be meaningfulClicks must not roughly equal conversions Page-load triggers, not real actionsFragile
No single-word keywordsExcept own brand / approved medical 35 in account (paused campaigns)Latent risk
No overly generic keywordsMust be mission-specific Entrepreneur, startup business live on broadAt risk
Quality Score ≥3QS 1–2 must be paused/removed No keyword below 3; 288 have no QS (never served)Pass
Minimum 2 ad groups per campaignStructural Enabled campaign has 2 ✓; 4 paused campaigns have 1Fix before enabling
Minimum 2 sitelinksStructural Present, but 7 point to dead/redirecting URLsDegraded
Geo targeting matches where the org operatesMission relevance 16 countries vs a Miami/South Florida briefMisaligned
Max CPC $2Lifted by conversion-based Smart Bidding Max Conversions in use; CPCs to $19.83 observedExempt
Daily budget ceiling $329Per campaign; unused budget never rolls over Enabled campaign set to $407/daySet above cap
Search Network only (except PMax)No Display/Search Partners on Search campaigns Correctly configuredPass
Annual program surveyMandatoryTo confirm with EndeavorVerify

How well-run Grant accounts actually reach $10,000

The benchmark is stark: the average Ad Grant account spends about $300/month — almost exactly where Endeavor Miami sits. Actively managed accounts averaged $8,650/month in January 2026, with 68% clearing $9,000. The levers that separate the two groups:

LeverWhat it doesApplies here
Conversion-based Smart BiddingRemoves the $2 CPC ceiling entirely. Managers report average CPCs near $12 on terms that would otherwise be capped at $2.In place but starved of data
Dynamic Search AdsTargets site content instead of keywords — no keyword list to build. Documented at +80% year-over-year spend for accounts stuck in a rut.Not used — biggest opportunity
Performance MaxAdds Search + Maps inventory, exempt from the 5% CTR rule.Not used
Keyword surface areaBlend of high-volume and long-tail across every program and audience.5 live keywords
Content & thought-leadership trafficBlog, press and research pages absorb volume that program pages never can.179 posts, 0 paid clicks
Multiple campaignsEach campaign has its own $329/day ceiling; one campaign alone struggles to reach $10k.1 enabled campaign
The one honest caveat Spending the full grant is the goal Endeavor Miami set, and it is achievable — but spend is a means, not the outcome. The plan below is built so that every incremental dollar lands on a mission-relevant page and a tracked action. Where a campaign exists mainly to absorb budget (DSA, PMax), that is stated plainly so it can be judged on reach and assisted conversions rather than on applications.

5The campaign mix — seven campaigns, $330/day

Built around the three audiences from the kickoff — founders who apply, corporate partners, and mentors/business leaders — plus two volume engines that make full deployment arithmetically possible.

Brand Application intent Mentors Corporate partners Ecosystem & research DSA — blog & press Performance Max
6%
17%
8%
8%
12%
29%
21%
#CampaignTypeAudience / jobGeo Budget/dayEst. CPCClicks/dayPrimary conversion
1SR_BR_Endeavor_MiamiSearch Own brand defence — cheapest clicks in the accountFL + US $20$1.3015Apply Today click
2SR_NB_Application_IntentSearch Founders searching for accelerators, scale-up and growth programsMiami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach $55$3.2017Apply Today click
3SR_NB_Mentors_LeadersSearch Executives searching to mentor / give backMiami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach $25$3.008Contact form
4SR_NB_Corporate_PartnersSearch CSR / community-impact leads at corporates (JP Morgan, Justworks profile)FL + US $25$4.006Partnerships form
5SR_NB_Ecosystem_ResearchSearch Ecosystem/VC/policy searchers → research reports & Impact ReportUS + LatAm (EN/ES) $40$2.2018PDF download
6DSA_Content_Blog_PressDynamic Search Volume engine. Auto-targets 179 posts across Press, Mentor Spotlight, EndeavorLAB, ResearchUS + LatAm (EN/ES) $95$1.5063Newsletter subscribe
7PMax_Endeavor_MiamiPerformance Max Volume engine. Search + Maps inventory; exempt from 5% CTR ruleFL + US $70$1.2058All primary actions
Total $330~$1.76 blended~187≈ $10,032/month

Does the arithmetic hold?

$330/day at a blended $1.76 CPC needs roughly 187 clicks/day ≈ 5,690 clicks/month, which at a 5.5% CTR implies about 103,000 impressions/month. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach together hold ~6.2M people — not enough on their own to supply that volume on entrepreneurship queries. This is exactly why campaigns 5, 6 and 7 carry 62% of the budget on wider geography: the local high-intent campaigns cannot physically absorb $329/day, and pretending otherwise is how Grant accounts stall at $500.

Design principle Campaigns 1–4 are judged on applications, mentor and partner leads. Campaigns 5–7 are judged on qualified reach, newsletter growth and report downloads — and on making the grant land. Reporting keeps the two tiers separate so "we spent $10k" never gets confused with "we generated 40 applications".

Keyword direction per campaign

1 · Brand

[endeavor miami] · [endeavor miami org] · "endeavor miami entrepreneurs" · "endeavor miami application" · "endeavor entrepreneur program miami" · [endeavorlab] · [endeavor scaleup]

Mandatory negatives on day one −endeavor group · −wme · −ufc · −endeavor stock · −edr · −endeavour · −endeavor air · −endeavor jobs · −shuttle endeavour · −endeavor talent agency
Plus pause the broad keyword Entrepreneur — it is what buys the wrong "endeavor" at $4.93/click.

2 · Application intent

"startup accelerator miami" · "business accelerator miami" · "scale up program florida" · "entrepreneur program miami" · "startup mentorship miami" · "high growth founder network" · "grow my business miami" · "founder network south florida" · "startup support miami dade"

3 · Mentors & leaders

"become a startup mentor" · "mentor entrepreneurs miami" · "business mentor volunteer" · "executive mentorship program miami" · "give back to founders" · "advisory board opportunities miami"

4 · Corporate partners

"corporate social impact partnership" · "sponsor entrepreneurship program" · "csr partnership miami" · "corporate philanthropy miami" · "support small business nonprofit" · "economic development partnership florida"

5 · Ecosystem & research

"miami startup ecosystem report" · "miami tech ecosystem" · "latin america venture trends" · "entrepreneurship impact report" · "high impact entrepreneurship research" · "startup ecosystem data miami"

6 · DSA targeting rules

  • Page feed / URL rules: /blog/, /press/, /category/press/, /category/mentor-spotlight/, /category/endeavorlab/, /category/research/, /category/ecosystem/, /20*/
  • Exclude per the kickoff: /endeavor-companies/, /resources/ (outdated), /board-of-directors/, /team/, /events/list/
  • Mirror all Search keywords as campaign negatives here to stop cannibalisation

7 · PMax asset group

One asset group, "Endeavor Miami — Founders". Brand language from the kickoff: Multiplier Effect, Elsewhere Entrepreneurs, Endeavor Entrepreneurs, Global Network of Trust. Upload logos + imagery; Google will request a video — it will not serve under the grant. Add brand terms as account-level negatives so PMax does not cannibalise campaign 1.

6Conversion tracking rebuild

Nothing else in this plan works until this is fixed. Smart Bidding needs signal, and Ad Grants policy requires at least one meaningful conversion per month.

#ActionHow it is capturedRoleWhy
1Apply Today clickGTM outbound-click trigger on the Google Form link (/entrepreneur-experience/) PrimaryThe core business action. Form completion lives in Google Forms and cannot be tracked — the click is the measurable proxy.
2Newsletter subscribeGTM listener on the Mailchimp embed PrimaryNamed as the second conversion at kickoff. This is what DSA and PMax will optimise toward.
3Research / Impact Report downloadGTM click trigger on /downloads/*.pdf Primary108 downloads and a 67-event July spike already prove demand. Gives campaign 5 a real goal.
4Contact / partnership form submitGTM form-submit trigger on /contact/, /partnerships/ PrimaryMentor and corporate-partner conversion.
5Event registration (Luma)Existing Sign-up (lu.ma…) action — already counted SecondaryKeep; the only action currently reporting into the Conversions column.
6Engaged session (>60s + scroll)GTM Observation onlyNever mark primary. Clicks ≈ conversions is an explicit Ad Grants red flag.

Cleanup required in the account

  1. Fix or retire the two Page load /scaleup/ and /endeavorlab/ actions — they are primary today and one of them can never fire again.
  2. Set include_in_conversions_metric = true on every action intended to drive bidding. Four "Submit lead form" actions are currently primary but not counted.
  3. Retire the two hidden GA4 actions (purchase, Click) — neither applies to a nonprofit.
  4. Keep Maximize Conversions, but only after signal returns. Until then run campaigns 2–5 on Maximize Clicks with a $2.50–$3.00 CPC ceiling to force delivery and rebuild data, then switch back.
Dependency — this is the critical path Google Tag Manager is not installed. Emi needs to add the GTM container to the WordPress theme before conversions 1–4 exist. Everything else can be built in parallel, but the account should not scale spend on Maximize Conversions until signal is confirmed flowing.

7Ramp plan and roadmap

Smart Bidding needs a learning period and Google throttles brand-new campaigns. A staged ramp reaches full deployment faster than switching everything on at once.

Month 1 — repair
$2,500–3,500
25–35% of grant

Tracking rebuilt, URLs fixed, negatives applied, campaigns 1–4 live on Max Clicks.

Month 2 — expand
$5,500–7,000
55–70% of grant

DSA and PMax launched. Conversion data returns; campaigns 2–4 move back to Max Conversions.

Month 3 — deploy
$8,500–10,000
85–100% of grant

All seven campaigns at target budget; keyword expansion from search-term mining.

Month 4+ — hold
$9,500–10,000
95–100% sustained

Monthly compliance check, negative mining, AI Max test, seasonal cohort pushes.

Three-week build

WeekWorkstreamDeliverableOwner
Week 1
Repair
Conversion trackingGTM container spec sent; conversions 1–4 definedCarlos → Emi
URL hygiene10 broken destinations fixed or removed; malformed "Apply Here" sitelink rebuiltCarlos
Waste controlBrand negative list applied; broad Entrepreneur paused; shared negative list createdCarlos
Geo + CTRGeo split per plan; "Startups" ad group (2.17% CTR) restructuredCarlos
Week 2
Rebuild
Campaigns 1–4Built with 2+ ad groups each, 2 RSAs per ad group, account-level sitelinksCarlos
Ad copyRSAs using kickoff brand language; Ad Strength lifted from Average to Good/ExcellentCarlos
WebsiteServices section updated; /scaleup/ destination decision confirmedTatiana
Week 3
Scale
Campaign 5Ecosystem & research campaign liveCarlos
Campaign 6DSA page feed built from 179 posts with exclusion rulesCarlos
Campaign 7PMax asset group live (Search + Maps)Carlos
OngoingGovernanceMonthly compliance check, search-term mining, spend pacing vs $329/dayCarlos

Open items from the kickoff

What full deployment is worth At a blended $1.76 CPC, a fully deployed grant buys roughly 5,700 qualified visits per month against the 84 clicks the account bought in July — on plan assumptions, a ~65× increase in paid reach at zero incremental cost. Even halving that for launch friction and CPC inflation, it is a materially larger top of funnel for applications, mentor recruitment and partner conversations.