About Us
We exist to close the accountability gap.
Civic Recovery Partners was founded on a straightforward premise: state and local governments award billions in economic incentives every year, and most of them lack the capacity to verify whether those incentives were ever earned.
Our Mission
Only earned benefits get paid.
Economic incentives are a legitimate and powerful tool for community development — when they work as intended. The problem isn't the incentives themselves. It's the accountability gap that opens up after the agreement is signed.
Most governments don't have the staff, the systems, or the specialized expertise to monitor complex incentive portfolios on an ongoing basis. Milestones pass unverified. Documentation goes uncollected. Non-compliance goes undetected — and unrecovered.
We built Civic Recovery Partners to fill that gap. Our work is straightforward: we help governments know what they're owed, verify whether they're getting it, and recover what's been lost when they're not.
Why We Started
We kept seeing the same pattern: a government would award a significant incentive package, the recipient would accept the benefits, and years later no one could say with confidence whether the commitments had been met.
The problem wasn't bad faith on anyone's part. It was structural. Incentive agreements are complex, multi-year instruments. Verifying compliance requires specialized knowledge, dedicated capacity, and a systematic approach that most government offices simply don't have.
We founded Civic Recovery Partners to provide exactly that capacity — as a trusted partner to governments that want to take their stewardship obligations seriously.
Our Expertise
Deep expertise across the full incentive lifecycle.
Our team brings together experience from economic development practice, government finance, compliance program design, and legal coordination. We've worked on both sides of incentive agreements — which means we understand how they're structured, where they break down, and how to recover value when they do.
- Economic development incentive structuring and negotiation
- State and local government compliance program design
- Tax abatement, TIF, and grant administration
- Forensic documentation review and audit support
- Recapture negotiation and legal coordination
- Public finance and fiscal impact analysis
State & Local
Government clients exclusively — we don't work for incentive recipients
Multi-Year
Engagements that build institutional knowledge of your portfolio over time
Defensible
Findings backed by documentation that holds up in negotiations and legal proceedings
Our Values
The principles that guide every engagement.
Public Accountability First
Every decision we make is grounded in one question: does this protect the public interest? We work for governments — and through them, for the communities they serve.
Evidence Over Assertion
We don't accept claims at face value. Every compliance determination we produce is backed by documentation, cross-referenced against independent data, and built to withstand scrutiny.
Collaborative by Design
We believe accountability works best when it's built into a relationship — not imposed from the outside. We work alongside government teams, not around them.
Practical, Not Theoretical
We understand the realities of government operations — limited staff, political complexity, public reporting requirements. Our work is designed to function within those constraints.
Who We Serve
We work exclusively with state and local governments.
That's not a limitation — it's a commitment. We don't work for incentive recipients, economic development consultants, or private developers. Our clients are governments, and our loyalty is to the public interest they represent.
State Agencies
Commerce departments, revenue agencies, and economic development authorities managing statewide incentive portfolios.
County Governments
County commissions and economic development offices overseeing local tax abatements, TIF districts, and grant programs.
Municipal Governments
City and town governments managing incentive agreements with commercial and industrial development projects.
Let's talk about your portfolio.
If you're a state or local government with active incentive agreements and questions about compliance, we'd like to hear from you.
Our fee structure is simple — we work on contingency.
No recovery, no fee.
Anticipated recoveries return monies to the revenue side of the budget, thereby reducing any negative fiscal imbalances.