AI grant management
How Plinth works
Form 990, OFAC and 501(c)(3) checks run in the background, so due diligence takes minutes and your team's time goes to grantees.
Plugs into Salesforce, Blackbaud, Fluxx and Foundant. No migration, live in days.
Developed with foundations and government across the UK
Applications
Fairer applications
Applications any organization can complete, with eligibility answered up front, so strong work reaches you from smaller groups too.
- Build and edit your own forms
- Real-time eligibility screening
- Fewer ineligible applications reach your panel
Due diligence
Check with confidence
Due diligence runs in the background on every applicant. Every check is logged and every result links to its source for your team to review.
- 501(c)(3) status checked against IRS records
- Form 990s and months of LUNA analyzed
- OFAC screening
- Safeguarding, governance and news risk flagged
Assessment
Evidence found, feedback drafted
AI pulls the evidence for each of your criteria out of the application, then drafts personalized feedback for every applicant, funded or not.
- Due diligence and assessment: hours down to minutes
- Key information highlighted for faster decisions
Multi-round programs
One program, as many rounds as you run
A parent program holds the setup and each round inherits it, so criteria, forms and settings are defined once and reporting adds up across every round.
- Override the dates, budget or criteria for one round
- Share a form, or fork a private copy
- See which rounds use a form before you change it
- Move a late application into the next round, history included
Monitoring
Stay close and prove your strategy works
Short grantee check-ins replace long reports and feed straight into your outcome data. Impact reports come from your full grant history on demand.
- Progress compared with the original application
- Outcomes, milestones and financials together
- Ready for trustees, donors, whoever is asking
This is so extremely helpful, it reduces our time spent on due diligence by more than half, easily.
Niamh Graham
Young Kensington & Chelsea
It has dramatically improved the speed and efficiency of our assessments without sacrificing quality.
Sharon Gollan
Head of Grants, Point North
Your return on investment
| Task | Before | With Plinth |
|---|---|---|
| Due diligence and assessment | 2–3 hours | 20–30 minutes |
| Assessors per fund | 3–5 | 1 |
| Feedback given | Generic or templated | Personalized and specific |
| Impact reporting | Annually, for big funds or overall | On demand, tailored to your stakeholders |
Calculate your time and cost savings
See the administrative benefit of automating due diligence, Form 990 reviews, OFAC screening and compliance checks.
- Your time saved per year
- 2177 hours
- Applicant time saved per year
- 1328 hours
- Cost saved per year, yours + applicants'
- $76,182 + $46,480
Assumes a 75% reduction in processing time, and that 33% of applications are currently ineligible, reduced by 50% with AI screening.
Replace or integrate
Go live in a single day: AI onboarding imports your PDF fund guidelines and Word application forms. Flexible contracts, no multi-year lock-ins.
Complete GMS
Use Plinth as your only grant management system.
Application portal
Replace your form builder, and send applications from Plinth to your GMS.
Assessment portal
Connect to your GMS and pull applications into Plinth for AI assessment.
Plugs into
Connect with your existing systems
Plinth plugs into Salesforce, Blackbaud, Fluxx and Foundant, or your spreadsheets, and application information can pass between your CRM and Plinth at any stage. There's no migration and no implementation project; most teams are live in days.
Common questions
Does Plinth decide which applicants pass due diligence?
No. Due diligence runs the checks and shows each result with a link to the record or document it came from. Your team reviews the results and makes the decision.
Can we keep our current grant management system?
Yes. Plinth can be your complete grant management system, an application portal that sends applications to your existing system, or an assessment portal that pulls applications in for AI assessment. Plinth plugs into Salesforce, Blackbaud, Fluxx and Foundant, or your spreadsheets, and application information can pass between your CRM and Plinth at any stage. There's no migration and no implementation project; most teams are live in days.
How is our data protected?
All data is encrypted at rest and in transit, with TLS on every connection and passwords salted and hashed with scrypt. Independent penetration testing runs every year, and attestations are available on request. Backups run daily and are kept for 30 days, with point-in-time recovery for the last 7 days. Access is role-based with row-level permissions, and every data change is written to an audit log. Plinth is GDPR compliant, and your data is never used to train any AI models. The full detail is on the security page.
See it on your own funds.
- 01A 30-minute demo
- 02The entire application lifecycle
- 03A tailored ROI