Application Questions

The application questions were developed after extensive research into the questions grantmakers ask on their applications. We performed a review of Regional Associations of Grantmakers common applications as well as individual grantmaker applications.

The most commonly asked questions became our standard questions. Supplemental questions allow grantmakers to ask questions that may not be asked by the standard questions.

Standard Questions

Standard questions are fixed and cannot be changed.

Grantseekers can maintain information about their organization as well as information about one or more of their organization’s programs. This information can then be submitted to one or more grantmakers as an application. The information may be reused and does not need to be re-entered for each application.

Standard questions ask for the following information:

	Individual and organization contact information including name, mailing address, phone, fax, email, Web address, etc.
	Individual and organization contact information for the fiscal agent (if any) including name, mailing address, phone, fax, email, Web address, etc.
	Organization background information including mission, history, names and titles of key staff, tax identification number, non-profit status, year established, Web listings.
	Detailed organizational staffing information for 1 to 5 years.
	Detailed organizational budget information (income and expense and balance sheets) for 1 to 5 years.
	Program background information including name or title of the program or project, focus area, Web address, amount and type of funding requested, requested grant cycle, geographic location and scope, short description, general description, goals and objectives, why it is important, activities that will be performed, outcomes.
	Detailed program staffing information for 1 to 5 years.
	Detailed program budget information (income and expense sheets) for 1 to 5 years.

The grantmaker can specify whether blocks of standard questions are required, optional or not required.

Supplemental Questions

Supplemental questions are configurable and can be specified by the grantmaker.

Supplemental questions may be asked about the grantseeker’s organization and/or program(s). The purpose of these questions is to allow the grantmaker to ask questions that may not be asked by the standard questions.

The grantmaker can specify whether an answer to each question is required, optional or not required and the maximum allowable length of an answer to each question.

Supplemental questions asked by one grantmaker, are independent of supplemental questions asked by another grantmaker.

Documents

Grantseekers and grantmakers may upload and manage a range of documents.

Grantseekers may upload documents describing their organization and/or the various programs for which they are seeking funding. Grantmakers may upload documents describing their organization and/or the various funding and programmatic interests they support.

General information, tax determination letter, annual report, budget, staff, letters of support and other types of documents can be uploaded. Formats that are supported include: Word, Acrobat, Excel, and JPEG.

All documents are viewable online by a Web browser.

Answer Lengths

Standard questions have various length limits for their answers. These limits may range from 100's of characters to 1000's of characters. These limits are not configurable by the grantmaker.

Supplemental questions are specified by the grantmaker. The grantmaker may configure the length limits for the answers to the supplemental questions.