Community Foundations
Manage your entire grant program from application to impact report. AI handles due diligence so your team can focus on decisions.
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One platform. Application to impact. Fully auditable.
Community foundation grant programs are often run on spreadsheets, email threads, and good intentions. There's a better way.
Word docs, PDFs, and web forms landing in different inboxes. No single view of your pipeline.
Manually checking IRS status, Form 990s, and financials for every applicant.
Spreadsheets tracking what's been paid, what's outstanding, and which grants have conditions.
Endless email reminders for end-of-grant reports. When they arrive, data is inconsistent and hard to aggregate.
Pulling together pipeline summaries, spend tracking, and outcome data from multiple sources for every board meeting.
Panel decisions captured in meeting notes that nobody can find. No clear record of who approved what and why.
See every application from submission to completion. AI scores and risk-flags applications so your panel can focus on the decisions that matter.
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Eligibility
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Due Diligence
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Panel Review
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Awarded
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Reporting
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One pipeline for everything
Every application in one place. Filter by stage, funding stream, or risk level. No more juggling spreadsheets and email threads.
AI-powered due diligence
Automated checks against IRS 501(c)(3) status, Form 990, and published financials. AI flags risks and scores applications so your team can review faster.
Panel decisions recorded
Scoring, comments, conflicts of interest, and decisions all captured in a full audit trail. Ready for any governance review.
Nine tools that replace the spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected systems you're using to run your grant program today.
Receive, triage, and score applications from a single pipeline view. Customizable application forms with conditional logic.
Automated checks against IRS 501(c)(3) status, Form 990, and financial data. AI flags risks so your team can focus on decisions.
Track grant payments, installments, and conditions. See exactly what's been paid, what's pending, and what's outstanding.
Grantees report outcomes directly in the platform. AI aggregates data across your entire portfolio into program-level reports.
Generate management reports with one click. Pipeline status, spend tracking, demographic breakdowns, and outcome summaries.
Full audit trail for every application. Panel decisions, comments, and conditions recorded and timestamped for transparency.
Generate and send grant agreements with terms and conditions. Track signatures and countersignatures digitally.
Invite panel members, assign applications for review, manage conflicts of interest, and record scoring and decisions.
Set reporting milestones and conditions. Automated reminders chase overdue reports so you don't have to.
Every grant payment, every grantee report, every outcome feeds into your program dashboard. AI turns the data into a board report.
47
Awarded
$218k
Distributed
3,420
Beneficiaries
47
Grants awarded
this round
$218k
Total distributed
across 47 orgs
12 days
Avg. time to decision
down from 34
41/47
Reports submitted
87% on time
3,420
Beneficiaries reached
via grantees
68%
Repeat applicants
applied again
Portfolio-level insights
See total spend, beneficiary reach, and outcome data across your entire grant program. Drill down by funding stream, geography, or theme.
AI-generated board reports
Stop spending days pulling together program reports. AI generates narrative summaries from your live data, ready for your board or trustees.
Automated grantee chasing
Set reporting milestones when you award the grant. The platform sends reminders automatically so you don't have to chase by email.
Whether you distribute $50k or $5m, Plinth scales with your program.
Community foundations
Place-based grantmaking to local 501(c)(3)s
Corporate giving
Employee giving, matching gifts, and grant rounds
Family foundations
Strategic grants and multi-year funding
Federated funds
Grant distribution on behalf of campaigns and partners
Book a 30-minute demo and we'll show you how Plinth can replace your spreadsheets, speed up due diligence, and help you track impact across your program.
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