Grants management
What grants management is, and how Grantis works as a grants management system for foundations.
Grant review
Grant review software for foundations
Assign reviewers, set the rubric, and carry the file through a decision without moving it to another tool.
Review is where cycles stall
A grants management system that stops at intake leaves the hard part in email. 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.
Grant review software in Grantis is Reviewer and Scoring Workflows. Assignment, the rubric, scores, notes, and the decision sit on the same grant record the program already defined.
That is why review belongs in the grants management system, not beside it. A score that never makes it onto the file cannot show up in a report.
What the foundation sets
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. There is no public apply page feeding a queue you did not ask for.
- 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
From score to closeout
Once a decision is on the file, award documents, grant tracking, and grant reporting can use it. Compliance dates come from the program you already set. The report does not have to reconstruct who scored what.
The Foundation Operations Health Score also reads reviewer turnaround. If review is where the year slows down, the score has a place to point.
Who this is for
Foundations that already know who they intend to consider, and that want the review to stay on the same record as the program. 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.
Questions
Grant review software is how a foundation assigns reviewers, scores applications against a rubric, and records a decision. In Grantis that work stays on the same grant file as the program and the later report.
Yes. Staff-only review and a rotating outside panel both fit. The difference is who you assign, not a second product.
Yes. A reviewer score is part of the record a later report can draw from. Nobody has to re-enter the decision in a spreadsheet so the board packet will add up.
No. Reviewers see the applications you invited. Controlled applicant access sits upstream of grant review.
Related
Grant tracking
Follow outcomes, due dates, and closeout after the award. Grant tracking software for the funder side.
Grant compliance
Required outcomes, completion, and a grant compliance platform that stays on the same record.
Grant reporting
Produce funder-specific reports from the file you already keep. Grant reporting software, not a second export.
Nonprofit grant management
For foundations that fund nonprofits by invitation, not for a nonprofit tracking grants it received.
Invitation-only grants
Controlled applicant access. You invite who applies. There is no public apply page.
If this is how your foundation works, contact us
Tell us how you run programs today. We will show you where Grantis fits.
