Grant review
Grant review software that does not leave the file.
Grant review software should keep assignment, rubric, and decision on the same file, so the score is still there when the report is due.
The stall
Review is where cycles stall.
Someone assigns reviewers in a spreadsheet. Scores live in a form that does not talk to the file. The decision is announced in a meeting and typed up later, slightly differently, for the board.
A grants management system that stops at intake leaves the hard part in email. A score that never makes it onto the file cannot show up in a report. That is why the packet and the decision never quite match.
The stall is worse when the queue is full of applications you did not ask for. Reviewers spend the cycle sorting instead of scoring.
The hold
Grant review software keeps assignment, rubric, and decision on the same grant.
Grant review software in Grantis is Reviewer and Scoring Workflows. You decide who reviews. You decide what they score against. You decide when the file is ready for a decision. Staff-only review and an outside panel are the same workflow with different people on it.
The applications in front of those reviewers are the ones you invited. Once a decision is on the file, award documents, grant tracking, and grant reporting can use it. The health score also reads reviewer turnaround. If review is where the year slows down, the score has a place to point.
- Reviewer assignment on the grant file
- Scoring rubrics the foundation writes
- Notes and the decision on the same record
- Works for staff review or an outside panel
Who it is for
For foundations that already know who they intend to consider.
If your model is an open call with hundreds of unsolicited files, Grantis is the wrong review tool. If you came here looking for grant tracking or grant reporting, those pages cover what happens after the decision. Review is the step that makes those two honest.
Before you write us
Other places the year breaks
Best grant management software
Most roundups assume an open call. What “best” means if you invite applicants and need the year on one record.
Grantmaker software
Funder-side software: the foundation that makes the award, not the nonprofit that received it.
GivingData alternative
For foundations that invite applicants and want the year on one record. Not a clone, not a login.
Blackbaud Grantmaking alternative
When the suite is larger than the year you run. Invitation-only grantmaker software, quoted, not a clone.
Foundant alternative
Not a login. For foundations that invite applicants and want the year on one record.
Grants management
The year lives in email, a drive, and a spreadsheet. A grants management system puts the program, the decision, and the report on one record.
Grant tracking
Tracking fails when it is a second system opened after the money went out. Watch outcomes and dates on the award itself.
Grant compliance
A compliance binder that drifts from the award letter cannot prove what happened. Requirements and completion stay on the file.
Grant reporting
Export, retype, hope the totals match. Packets should come from the file you already keep, not a second year of work.
Nonprofit grant management
For foundations that invite the nonprofits they fund. Not software for a nonprofit tracking grants it received.
Invitation-only grants
An open apply page fills the queue with people you did not choose. You invite who applies.
If this is the stall you have, write us.
Tell us how you run programs today. We will show you where Grantis holds the file.
