Let your trustees focus
on the mission.
Your trustees bring knowledge and experience to your foundation, and most give their time for free. Grantmaker reads, checks and summarises every application, so they can put their judgement into choosing the charities that will do the most good.
Papers your trustees will thank you for.
Your trustees shouldn't need to read a long bid to understand what a charity wants to do. Grantmaker turns each application into a one-page summary to read ahead of the meeting, so your trustees arrive ready to decide.
- The essentials at a glance
- Who the charity is, what it wants to do, how it scores against your criteria, whether it's eligible and what the risks are, all on one page.
- More detail, a click away
- A trustee who wants to look closer can open the full application in Grantmaker, with the reasoning and evidence behind every score and risk.
- Ready to send round
- Print a sheet, or download every shortlisted application as a single PDF to send to your trustees before the meeting.
- Laid out your way
- Choose what goes on the sheet, so your trustees see what your foundation cares about and nothing they don't need.
Fund what matters, and know it's money well spent.
Your trustees want every grant to count. Grantmaker does the reading and checking, so each decision is made with the full picture.
Look beyond the charities you already know
The charities doing the best work aren't always the ones that apply, or the ones you already know. Grantmaker finds organisations whose work fits your mission and checks them against your criteria, so you can invite the ones your trustees want to hear from.
Stop spending hours on applications you can't fund
Many of the applications a foundation receives were never going to qualify, and sifting them out takes hours. Grantmaker checks each one against your eligibility criteria. Where the evidence can't settle one, it says so and leaves it for you.
Back the best idea, not the best-written bid
A small charity with a great idea shouldn't lose out to a big one with a bid writer. Grantmaker scores what each application actually says against your criteria, and points every justification to the evidence behind it, so your trustees can see why each score was given.
See the risks before you commit
A late annual return or thin reserves is easy to miss in a pile of applications. Grantmaker rates each applicant against the risks you care about and shows the evidence for every rating. You can change any rating where you see it differently.
Spend the meeting on the decisions that need it
Each trustee reads the papers in their own time, gives each application a score and a justification, and adds any comments. Grantmaker gathers them in one place, so the meeting can start with the applications your trustees are split on, not the ones they already agree about.
Whatever the size of your foundation.
Family trusts, independent trusts, community foundations and corporate foundations all give in their own way. Grantmaker fits the way you work.
Just trustees
No staff, just a few trustees giving up their evenings. Grantmaker does the reading, checking and summarising that would otherwise take up those evenings, so trustees can read the one-page summaries and get on with deciding.
A small team
One or two people running the whole round. Grantmaker keeps the form, the applications, the checks and the decisions in one place, rather than spread across inboxes and spreadsheets, so nothing slips while you're juggling everything else.
A full grants team
Staff assessing hundreds of applications a year, with trustees who expect good papers. Grantmaker scores every application against the same criteria, so your board can compare them fairly, however many come in.
Questions from foundations like yours.
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- A guided walkthrough, tailored to your funding
- See eligibility, scoring, risk and budgeting in action
- Expert guidance on bringing AI to your grant-making
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