Invitation-only grants
Invitation-only grant programs. You choose who is in.
Invitation-only grant programs mean there is no public apply page. The review queue is the list you asked for, so the cycle is not spent sorting strangers.
The stall
An open listing creates a second job: sorting.
Post a listing, wait, then sort. The queue is people who found you, not people you chose.
Most grants management software assumes an open call. Staff spend the cycle on that sorting instead of on review. The program drifts toward whoever showed up.
If you already know the field you fund, that stall is optional. You should not have to buy it as a default.
The hold
Invitation-only grant programs start with the program you name.
Grantis keeps the process invitation-only. Foundations invite or assign specific applicants. There is no public listing and no self-serve apply page. Outcomes, requirements, and due dates exist before anyone is invited.
After award, the same rule holds: people see the program because you put them on it. Once the invited applications are in, grant review, the decision, grant tracking, compliance, and grant reporting stay on the same record. Invitation-only is not a filter you apply at the end. It is the start of the file.
- Invitation or assignment only
- No public apply page
- No self-serve applicant signup
- The review queue is the list you chose
Who it is for
For funders with a defined partner list.
Family foundations, private foundations, and funders that already know the field they fund. If your model is a public listing anyone can find and submit to, Grantis is not built for it.
A nonprofit looking for a program will not find a public apply page here. The invitation comes from the foundation, not from Grantis. If you fund nonprofits this way, the nonprofit grant management page covers that audience. This page is the access rule those programs run on.
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.
Grant review
Scores that live in a side form never make the board packet. Assignment, rubric, and decision stay on the grant.
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.
