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Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager

Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager

Overview

What is Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager?

With Foundant GLM, users can create, launch and receive online applications and grant reports, manage online proposal reviews, and manage grants and information from a single, integrated solution from anywhere they have internet access.

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Grant Lifecycle Manager, known as GLM, is a versatile software solution that has transformed the grant and scholarship processes for …
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Great product!

9 out of 10
July 14, 2015
We use Grant Lifecycle Manager for as our primary grants management tool. Grant Lifecycle Manager streamlines the application and decision …
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Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM)

Cloud
Per Organization, Per Every 2 Years

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager?

Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM) is designed to manage the entire grantmaking process in one secure, easy-to-use solution, to free up users so that they can pursue their missions. It includes unlimited users, including applicants, reviewers, grant recipients, staff, and board members, can access the system anytime, anywhere. Built to be user configurable—GLM’s grantmaking helps users meet the unique needs of their grantees.

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Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnited States, Canada, Australia
Supported LanguagesEnglish

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Frequently Asked Questions

With Foundant GLM, users can create, launch and receive online applications and grant reports, manage online proposal reviews, and manage grants and information from a single, integrated solution from anywhere they have internet access.

Submittable, SmartSimple Cloud for Grants Management (GMS360), and WizeHive Zengine are common alternatives for Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager.

The most common users of Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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Grant Lifecycle Manager, known as GLM, is a versatile software solution that has transformed the grant and scholarship processes for various organizations. Users have found GLM to be incredibly helpful in streamlining their workflows and eliminating the need for paper-based systems. The Executive Director of the Luther I. Replogle Foundation, along with board members, has seamlessly transitioned to GLM for accepting applications and assigning evaluators, significantly improving efficiency and reducing administrative burdens.

GLM has also been adopted by the grants department at United Arts of Central Florida as their primary grants management tool. It simplifies the entire application and decision-making process, as well as outcome reporting, accounting, and organizational reporting. By centralizing all applicant and grantee interactions, GLM helps keep the organization organized and provides a single hub for managing external organizational granting, internal grants, and nominations for awards/recognition lists.

The family foundation fully utilizes GLM for various aspects of their grantmaking, including letters of inquiry, grant applications, grant reports, and customized reports. Grantees highly appreciate this online platform for its ease of access, user-friendly interface, and the ability to save work in progress. By using GLM, they have seen a remarkable improvement in their efficiency while reducing paper waste.

Eastern Bank also relies on GLM for online processing of all community support initiatives such as grant programs and Bank-sponsored events. Additionally, it serves as a vital tool for their scholarship program, allowing students to apply online while reviewers can conveniently review applications through the platform. With GLM's intuitive technology, sorting capabilities, real-time data manipulation, and export functions facilitate seamless collaboration within the team.

The Grant Lifecycle Manager has proven to be an invaluable resource for many organizations in streamlining their grantmaking processes from start to finish. Its intuitive interface allows for easy organization of LOIs, tracking outcomes, and generating insightful reports. Users appreciate Foundant's excellent responsiveness and support throughout their experience with GLM, which has made it a highly recommended tool for enhancing the grantmaking process in the philanthropic space.

Simple Navigation: Users consistently praise the system for its simple and intuitive navigation. This makes it easy for administrators, applicants, and evaluators to access the software seamlessly across all platforms and devices.

Smooth System Updates: Reviewers appreciate that thoughtful system updates are implemented without causing any disruption to their experience. These updates ensure the smooth operation of the software while keeping users up-to-date with new features and improvements.

Efficient Information Retrieval: Many users highly value the ability to easily search for and retrieve information about grants or requests from previous years. This feature saves them valuable time and effort by eliminating the need to manually sift through old records.

Some users have found the process for third-party responses to be cumbersome. They mention that there are multiple emails to deal with in order to find the correct link to upload necessary documents, making it a time-consuming and inefficient process.

Users feel that customized reports could be improved. They believe that the fault lies with themselves for not thinking analytically enough to craft concise reports, indicating a desire for more flexibility and customization options in generating reports.

The absence of CRM functionality has been noted by some users as a limitation. They would like a built-in customer relationship management system to manage contacts and associated emails more effectively.

Reviews

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Gwenn Gebhard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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I am the Executive Director of the Luther I. Replogle Foundation. I am the only employee of the Foundation, I work part-time, and I report to a Board of six Directors. The Foundation has an endowment of $11.7 million and we distribute about $500,000 in grants to non-profits. The Foundation follows several guidelines to make decisions as to how to allocate the grants. We use Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM) for ALL of the grant management. I am the primary user of the licensed software, however, my Board members use it periodically to rate the grant requests before their Board Meetings. One significant problem that is addresses is that grant requests can be tracked, and paperwork and recordkeeping does not get stalled on my desk in hard copy. Requests enter the system through the Foundation's website on GLM, I review the Letters of Inquiry and Applications on line, I respond to all the LOIs and Applications on line (through email set up through GLM), I can see all the records of past grants, including historic grants pre-dating 2010 when we started using GLM. I do almost all the work of the Replogle Foundation using GLM.
  • Grant requests arrive at the Foundation only through the web. We do not accept hard copy Letters of Inquiry or Applications. This means nothing gets lost! And I can do the reviews at my office or at home. Previous to GLM, it was difficult to log and to track the grant requests because we get a lot BUT I have limited amount of time manage them. There are several software packages out there that now do this function, but Foundant was one of the first and continues to be the best at it. They have a continuous development process and respond to customer comments and requests regularly and frequently.
  • GLM allows the Foundation to keep historical grant records in the cloud, with two benefits. (1) We have been able to eliminate hard copy records. The only hard copy records we keep at this point are the Foundation's Board Meeting minutes and the 990-PF Tax Returns. (2) It is easy to search and recover information regarding grants or requests that took place 5 years in the past or 8 years in the past. This ability has proven itself useful several times.
  • The GLM user community is diverse and very helpful. As a solo employee, I find that the GLM user community is an extraordinary resource of knowledge and savvy. I hardly ever have to "re-invent the wheel," because someone else has more than likely had to deal with the same issue. And if not, the community is able to rally with suggestions.
  • Foundant Technologies, the owner and manager of GLM, is a responsive company with a depth of knowledge and experience in the database field and the philanthropy field. A significant reason of why I think that GLM is the best software for my purposes is that the support provided by the company seems to be endless and extraordinarily smart.
  • I have not had a bad or even mediocre experience with Foundant or with GLM. When I don't know something and I get frustrated, I have a name and number to call who is immediately available to help (on the same day).
  • GLM has gone beyond the bounds of what I need. The company is still adding functionality for other users whose organizational needs differ slightly or enormously from mine. I hear about these new additions because I receive an email newsletter regularly with updates on new functions and uses. Sometimes I discover that there is a functionality that I didn't think about until Foundant Technologies mentioned it - and then I have a ah-ha! moment. That's fun!
From where I stand, GLM is well-suited for use by small-staffed charitable foundations who make more than thirty (30) grants a year and distribute more than $500,000 in funds to non-profits. The software is able to handle every step in the grant-making process from receipt of a request, to the evaluation and decision regarding the grant, to tracking the pay-out, and to closing the grant when the work or the year is completed.
  • Grant Lifecycle Manager has only a positive impact on our overall business objectives. This software package is all we use to manage grants. I work part-time, and this software allows me to get ALL the necessary work done to manage the work of the Foundation. The software has become so efficient in the last couple of years, that I now have time to do special projects as requested by the Board of Directors. I have conducted a survey of our grantees about the issues of capacity building within their own organizations and on the question of professional development. I have led workshops for our grantees on how to use GuideStar, a non-profit database that provides data on organizations all across the nation. The GLM software allows me to prepare for the twice-yearly Board Meetings with a minimum of stress and no confusion.
I used GIFTS more than 10 years ago. Their development was glacial, and it was clumsy software. They took much longer to develop the on-line application process. I also reviewed Philan Tech. They did not offer the same flexibility that Foundant's GLM did. Nor did the company have the depth of software engineering experience that Philan Tech had at the time. Finally, I used a back-office support company for a short time that has an on-line grant management component. This option proved to be too cumbersome and too expensive. And I did not personally get along with the staff there. Definitely not a good fit for the Replogle Foundation and me.
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