Grants management
A grants management system for the year you already run.
A grants management system for programs, decisions, awards, and closeout, on one record, not a board-packet rebuild.
The stall
When the year lives in three places, it has to be rebuilt.
Email, a shared drive, and a spreadsheet that only one person understands.
Grants management is the operating work of a foundation: defining a program, taking applications, reviewing them, awarding funds, watching what was promised, and reporting on it. When that work is split, a new staff member cannot pick it up, and someone rebuilds the year before every board meeting.
A spreadsheet can hold a list of awards. It cannot keep a due date, a reviewer score, and a funder report on one record. That is the stall a grants management system is supposed to close.
The hold
A grants management system, not an open call.
Foundation grant management here means the foundation owns the program. A lot of grants management software assumes an open call. Post the program, wait, then sort. That model fits some funders. It does not fit a foundation that already knows which organizations it intends to consider.
You set outcomes, requirements, due dates, and awardee expectations. Then you invite or assign specific applicants. There is no public apply page. Scoring, the decision, grant tracking, compliance, and grant reporting stay attached to the grant instead of drifting into side files.
- The foundation owns the program
- Applicants are invited or assigned
- Review, award, tracking, and reports share one record
- Each foundation works in its own isolated workspace
Who it is for
Built for funders who already know the field they fund.
Private foundations, family foundations, and other funders that run their own programs and already know who they intend to consider. Staff who today keep the year in a shared drive and a spreadsheet they are afraid to hand off.
It is a poor fit for a public listing, a community foundation running an open call, or a nonprofit that needs to track grants it received from many funders. Those are different jobs. If the stall you have is after the award, start with grant tracking or grant compliance. If it is the packet, start with grant reporting. If it is who gets in, start with invitation-only grants. If it is scoring, start with grant review.
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.
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.
Grant review
Scores that live in a side form never make the board packet. Assignment, rubric, and decision stay on the grant.
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.
