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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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Offerings

  • 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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Kristen Summers | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This product is great and well-suited for smaller organizations who are interested in doing an online grantmaking system for the first time or upgrading from a simple survey-type application. You would love this product for basic applications and reports; [...] [its also great] if you want to do some light reporting. This is not a product that is robust enough to handle complex budgets, contact or email management, or complex outcomes metrics. It also will not work if you are trying to track your conversations with potential grantees before they apply.
Diana Maxwell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have recommended GLM to colleagues and would do it again. It provides all of the features you need to manage a grants program, and incredible customer service. We're not a typical foundation, and the program works for our management, but I've seen it also work great for foundations large and small, that give standard grants or scholarships. We've used it in different ways to gather materials too, and it's worked for that as well.
Gwenn Gebhard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Mary Giraulo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The software has served our needs well for the past four years, and with the continuous improvements that keep rolling out, I can't see us moving to another type of grants management software in the future.
Susan Haley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM) is very well suited for the small staffed foundation. I have highly recommended it in the past and will continue to do so. Their customer service is flawless and the product is excellent. It has reduced my paper and simplified my work flow. I cannot think of a family foundation or small staffed foundation that it wouldn't work well for.
Sally Weldon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Cost of the product is primarily subscription based, which is better for being able to budget for. Add a new administrator user? No extra cost.

It is web based, and accessible to grant applicants, students, counselors and committee members.The vendor provides competent support and implementation specialists. Data is able to be uploaded to the enterprise system to create checks for the awardees.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
From what I can gather, the volume of applications is irrelevant. The Grant Lifecycle Manager can handle a large number or a small number very well. Perhaps the biggest downside is that the Grant Lifecycle Manager does not integrate into other financial databases, so it is necessary to enter grants a second time if another financial database is used. However, I think the benefits of using the Grant Lifecycle Manager far outweigh and drawbacks.
July 14, 2015

Great product!

Erin Baird | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
For the cost and capacity, I think this is the best product on the market. Foundations that require a lot of customization and still utilize a lot of paper documents, might want a different product.
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