Confident grant decisions,
without the admin.
Grantmaker assesses every application against your criteria and brings the evidence together, so officers do less of the paperwork, decisions are better informed, and the reasons for every award are documented.
From application to award.
Grantmaker takes on the reading, checking and summarising at every step, so officers spend less time on each application and members decide with the full picture.
Stop checking every applicant by hand
Tell Grantmaker what you need to know about every applicant, such as previous council funding, reserves or a copy of its safeguarding policy. Grantmaker looks it up for you in public records and your past grants, and asks the group for anything it can't find.
Start every review with the groundwork done
Grantmaker reads each application as it arrives and checks it against your eligibility rules, scores it on factual criteria and flags the risks, showing the evidence behind every assessment. Officers review it and change anything they disagree with. Every decision stays with your officers and panel.
Send panel papers that get to the point
Grantmaker turns every application into a single page, showing exactly what your panel wants to see, such as the capital and revenue split, the score and the risks. Print the papers, send them as a PDF, or let members open them in Grantmaker and drill into the full application and the evidence behind every score.
Bring your panel's scores together before the meeting
Members score the shortlist ahead of the meeting. Anyone with an interest to declare is left out of scoring that application. Grantmaker brings scores and comments together into one ranking, so discussion goes where it's needed. For participatory budgeting, residents can vote too.
Fit the round to your budget
Grantmaker adds up every request against your capital and revenue budgets, year by year, and by area or theme if you split the fund that way. Pick a shortlist, part-fund where you need to, and see at once what fits, what's over and what's left.
Show why every grant was made
When a grant is questioned, by internal audit, a councillor or a group that missed out, the reasons are already there. Every score in Grantmaker comes with its justification and evidence, and every change records who made it and why.
Already have a grants system? Keep it.
Part way through a contract, or not ready to move systems? Grantmaker works alongside what you have, taking on the reading, checking and summarising.
Applications arrive as they do now
Applicants keep using your current portal and forms. Grantmaker brings the applications in, attachments and all.
Grantmaker does the groundwork
Grantmaker checks applicants, assesses each application and prepares the panel papers, with the evidence behind every assessment.
Awards go back to your system
Awards go back for payment, with the reasons behind them. Prefer to decide in your existing system? Just send back the assessments.
Only using part of Grantmaker alongside your existing system?
We'll price it to match.
Questions from councils like yours.
If yours isn't here, email us at hello@grantmaker.co.uk.
Request a demo
See Grantmaker in action. Book a personal walkthrough with the founding team and we'll show you how it can support your team to make the most of your fund.
- A guided walkthrough, tailored to your funding
- See eligibility, scoring, risk and budgeting in action
- Expert guidance on bringing AI to your grant-making
- No pressure, no obligation