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What is Blackbaud Grantmaking?
Blackbaud Grantmaking (formally GIFTS Online) is part of Blackbaud’s extensive portfolio of software, services, data intelligence and expertise that powers social good. Blackbaud Grantmaking delivers grantmaking capabilities configured to meet the user's needs, and to improve efficiency with personalized online…
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What is Blackbaud Grantmaking?
Blackbaud Grantmaking (formally GIFTS Online) is part of Blackbaud’s extensive portfolio of software, services, data intelligence and expertise that powers social good. Blackbaud Grantmaking delivers grantmaking capabilities configured to meet the user's needs, and to improve efficiency with personalized online grant applications and report forms, personalized user dashboards, and simplified financial processing tools. By providing access to giving data, including standard, advanced, and ad hoc reporting tools, Blackbaud Grantmaking enables users to measure, understand, and improve results. In addition, Blackbaud Grantmaking allows funders to become actively involved in the Foundation Center’s Glasspockets initiative with Grant reporting capabilities, allowing for greater collaboration and more impactful giving. Blackbaud Grantmaking supports organizations whose goal is to provide guidance, transparency, and accountability throughout the grantmaking cycle.
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- Supported: Configurable to meet your workflow
- Supported: Dashboards featuring real-time data
- Supported: Integrated tools for finance, payments and reporting
- Supported: Outcomes measurement capabilities
- Supported: Open API to connect with your other essential software solutions
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | All countries |
| Supported Languages | English (US), English (British), Welsh, Spanish, French, Portuguese |
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January 09, 2024
Blackbaud Grantmaking for the win!
My organization utilizes the Blackbaud Grantmaking for the entire grant application and review process with all of the grant giving for the entire organization. The applications are submitted via the Blackbaud Grantmaking portal, the reviews are submitted via each respective reviewers within the portal, and the grant distributions are also recorded there as well.
April 09, 2021
Blackbaud Grantmaking works for us!
Although 3 other employees have the software I am the one who uses it the most. One colleague may use it occasionally. It helps me keep track of our grantees and generates reports that are of use to my colleagues.
August 04, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking Review 2018
We use Blackbaud Grantmaking (formerly GIFTS Online) to manage a funding program, including: all aspects of database and contact management, grantee reporting; our internal (staff and board) and external (funder) reporting; online applications; reviewer portal; budgeting, allocating and tracking grant disbursements. We utilize Blueprint for further ability to customize according to our needs. We disburse grants to individuals and organizations.
It provides clarity in tracking project deadlines, completed and outstanding projects, financial tracking by project, contacts (and associated applications) as well as project and program outcomes. We used to rely on more paper and multiple programs / databases to manage this information piecemeal when the program was smaller, but this was not efficient when the program kept expanding. The data management and reporting functions are great at managing and extracting the information we require.
It provides clarity in tracking project deadlines, completed and outstanding projects, financial tracking by project, contacts (and associated applications) as well as project and program outcomes. We used to rely on more paper and multiple programs / databases to manage this information piecemeal when the program was smaller, but this was not efficient when the program kept expanding. The data management and reporting functions are great at managing and extracting the information we require.
It is being used by our organization to manage our grant-making process from inquiry to reporting on grants awarded.
July 23, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking B+
It is used by our community relations department. It keeps track of all of our donations and gifts.
July 17, 2018
Granting
We are a charitable foundation that gives grants to other not-for-profit entities. We track our annual giving, giving categories, and QD for our foundation. Monthly reports and annual reports are supplied to IRS with our 990.
July 17, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking Review
We are currently using Blackbaud to manage all of our online grant applications and to provide reporting information for accounting as well as program staff.
The system has provided access both for staff and grantees, better management, the ability to pull data from the grants using classifications and drop down menus. The Improvement is so significant it would be difficult to list how transferring to an online Grant Management System has benefited our organization.
July 17, 2018
Bank giving through Blackbaud
Blackbaud Grantmaking is used by our bank in the US for both charitable giving through our foundation and corporate giving through local community partnerships and event sponsorships.
We use Blackbaud Grantmaking to manage our philanthropic giving and corporate sponsorship process. It is used directly by various departments at the company.
June 19, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking Review
Used by all staff. It is a tool that helps us manage our grantmaking activities.
May 22, 2018
Tracking Philanthropy in a sundowning Foundation
I manage our Annual giving by using Blackbaud Grantmaking. It is a way for me to compile and track all our grants in one cohesive platform. Blackbaud Grantmaking allows us to share our grant making amongst the various members of a philanthropic family. It compares and collates data across the multi-faceted and multi-generational grantmaking initiatives.
Our foundation uses Blackbaud Grantmaking to manage our charitable grants throughout the entire process from application to review to award and reporting. As Grants Manager, I consider myself the "power user" of Blackbaud Grantmaking. In addition, our two program officers and an admin assistant use Blackbaud Grantmaking. Using Blackbaud Grantmaking has enabled our foundation to transition from hard copy applications to a paperless process and also to paperless Board of Directors meetings through use of PDFs from Blackbaud Grantmaking for use on their iPads. I also use the tools in Blackbaud Grantmaking to create custom dashboards for each user which has been very helpful for the program officers to see only the requests/grants that are their responsibility. The Blackbaud Grantmaking tools also help me in creating informative reports and graphics using the data reported from our grantees.
February 13, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking User Review
We are a Family Foundation and we utilize Blackbaud Grantmaking to maintain and track the organization's applications, payments, requirements and overall life-cycle of a contract. It is mandatory that all our operating agreements go through Blackbaud Grantmaking from inception to conclusion. We are an invitation only foundation so we send out applications to organizations that we would like to partner with for specific projects. At the end of the day, every aspect of the life cycle of the agreement goes through Blackbaud Grantmaking.
February 12, 2018
Faithful user since 2007
My organization uses Blackbaud Grantmaking for the full lifecycle management of our contracts/grants. The system is used by 20 programmatic staff, out of 50 total staff. There are some gaps, in terms of utilizing an automated workflow, but for standard grant/contract agreements the system design is great.
1. Invitation to Apply Process
i. Utilize an invitation only process
ii. Receive applications via the online application module
-Submit the online application checklist to trigger the development of the application (internal process outside of Blackbaud Grantmaking)
-Develop and test the online application, then issue to the contract manager for distribution to potential partners
-Download the completed application, confirm the correct coding and files
-Review the narrative request, budget and related attachments
iii. Track status of pending applications
2. Develop the Contract/Agreement
i. Generate the contract template from Blackbaud Grantmaking and it prepopulates: -Contact information of the partner, -Payment schedule, -Requirement schedule, -Coding (budget, geographic, service area, etc.)
ii. Use the Document Template Manager to ensure that the legal language of the contract remains consistent, unless a ‘redlined’ contract with proposed changes is indicated
iii. Review, finalize and print the contract for signatures
3. Manage Contract Requirements
i. Input full schedule of contract deliverables into BG
ii. Utilize the online reporting feature to allow service providers/grantees to submit their reports via the online portal
iii. Track status of receipt and approvals
iv. Tie attachments and narrative reports to the request record
v. Upload subsequent analysis of the progress of the project to BG
4. Manage Contract Payments
i. Input full schedule of payments into BG
ii. Track status of payments and approvals
iii. Generate the payment cover sheet from BG and it prepopulates: -Payment schedule, -Actual payments processed, -Contingent requirement(s), -Coding (budget, geographic, service area, etc.)
iv. Copy of the check is manually uploaded to payment tab in BG
5. Closeout
i. Determine final payout (or need of a credit memo to deobligate the remaining balance)
ii. Confirm that all requirements have been fulfilled and corresponding analysis has been uploaded
iii. Generate the form from BG and submit to Finance
iv. Update BG and mark the record ‘Completed’
February 12, 2018
Using Blackbaud Grantmaking at a Family Foundation
I use Blackbaud Grantmaking (BG) to manage and track our grantmaking process from proposal invitation to close-out, including document/email generation, internal workflow management, board reports, and deliverable follow-up. I'm able to track the status of every application and grant. Our program assistants use BG to update the program directors on their grants, find contacts, and generate documents. Our program directors look up various types of information in BG.
February 07, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking
We are a Family Foundation and we use Blackbaud Grantmaking as a means to maintain and track organizations, applications for grants, payments. All of us use it. Eliminated many Excel spreadsheets.
February 06, 2018
My Feedback
Initially guided by an eligibility quiz, we use Blackbaud Grantmaking to receive and process requests for both sponsorships and grants, as well as to share this information with field personnel for their review and feedback. Although limited, the budgeting function is helpful.
Blackbaud Grantmaking is being used by multiple departments. We are similar to an operating foundation, making grants as well as operating our own programs. Our internal departments use it for contracts, and the grantmaking team (program and accounting) uses it to manage about 130 grants a year. We had been on GIFTS since 2008, and moved to BG in 2017 so we could access the database online. This allows us to use it in the field during site visits, or to process grant applications after hours or offsite.
January 31, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking Review
The foundation uses Blackbaud Grantmaking for all grant applications and discretionary/matching requests.
January 31, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking is Great
We are a private family foundation and we use Blackbaud Grantmaking to track the family's personal giving, as well as the foundation. The foundation is a faith-based organization and we grant money to faith-based organizations and churches in the New England and Georgia geographical area. We like to remain anonymous with our giving.
January 31, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking Review
Blackbaud Grantmaking is used throughout our company's service footprint for our overall charitable giving program administration. Blackbaud Grantmaking enables us to organize, track and provide reporting information measuring impact and population demographics of organizations and nonprofits we support.
January 31, 2018
How Blackbaud Grantmaking Can Be a Gift to You
Blackbaud Grantmaking is only used in our grants department and one fund area as limited access to it. It addresses the problems of reaching out to grantees who are getting grants, and forgetting to report on the grants they have made. It aids the Finance department when it audit time as the software used allows a 990 format that is quick and easy to process.
January 30, 2018
Love BG but don't like the lack of support from Blackbaud.
BG is the grantmaking software our organization utilizes to maintain records and manage grants. We also use IGAM as our online application process.
January 30, 2018
Blackbaud Grantmaking for Multiple Funding Sources
Blackbaud Grantmaking is used by our Philanthropic Services department to manage the grantmaking activities of our foundation clients. We use Blackbaud Grantmaking to:
- Manage the processing of all grant applications (using the IGAM module);
- Manage written and email communications with applicants and grantees;
- Track and schedule and record payments;
- Set reminders for critical tasks;
- Generate custom reports for our clients.