What is the Common Grant Application?
The Common Grant Application is a secure online system for grant and scholarship management that provides a
simple, flexible and affordable means for grantmakers to manage their entire grant or scholarship life cycles.
The Common Grant Application is customizable and provides the tools and capabilities to manage online and
paper-based grants and scholarships efficiently. Our software makes grant and scholarship making
easier for everyone involved.
Our system is built from our parallel experience of running a family foundation for
the past 25 years. We understand the challenges of grantmaking because we live them.
You may be surprised by how much our system delivers for the price. Nearly every feature
comes directly from conversations with our grantmakers and their applicants.
Common Grant Application Product at a glance
- Private and Public Foundations
- Community Foundations
- Operating Foundations
- Corporate Foundations
- Government Agencies
- Giving Circles
- Faith-based or Fraternal Organizations
- Scholarship Providers
General Features
- Support both grants and scholarships.
- Manage any number of users and their access permissions.
- Applicant information and documents are persistent and reusable.
- Create and maintain independent grant and scholarship programs with different applications, evaluation scales, evaluators and filtering criteria.
- Customize and reuse forms to build your applications, recommendations and reports.
- A customized YouTube instructional video is created for viewing by your applicants, reviewers and evaluators.
- Manage grants, scholarships, agreements, reports, payments, documents, media (video, audio, photos) and meeting notes.
- Use one-step (full application) or two-step (LOI and full application) application process.
- Receive, manage, review and evaluate Web or paper-based applications.
- Use one, two or three or four-step evaluation process.
- Manage evaluation visibility.
- Observe, manage and track your evaluators. Assign applications to be scored, rated or ranked to individual evaluators or groups of evaluators.
- Review, evaluate, approve, reject or withdraw applications.
- Create, assign and manage grant agreements.
- Create, assign and manage grant reports.
- Create an unlimited number of custom reports for applications, evaluations and reports that can be displayed, printed or exported in CSV
format to be used in Excel or other programs.
- Track, manage and display real-time status of online applications either individually or in aggregate.
- Invite applicants to submit solicited applications or to submit an application after a grant cycle is closed.
- Observe progress of applicants.
- Share anonymized evaluation scores and notes with applicants.
The Common Grant Application can save time, money and improve the quality of your grantmaking process for all of your stakeholders.
Grantmakers pay a low monthly subscription fee based on the number of administrators, number of applications and value of grants made.
Subscription fees start at $175 per month. There is no long-term contract required. Applicants pay nothing.
