An engine for good
Technology that connects
people, data, and
purpose.
$17.5B
2024 Grant & Scholarship Awards Powered by Foundant
3,350+
Number of organizations in Foundant, GivingData, and SmartSimple community
98.1%
Client Satisfaction Rate in 2024
Trusted By foundations and other Social Good Organizations
How We Work
Built alongside the people at the heart of social good.
By listening deeply, co-creating openly, and showing up as long‑term partners, we develop technology that reflects lived experience – not just stated requirements. As communities grow and challenges shift, we grow and shift with them.
Purpose-built for every stage of social good.
Each solution is purpose-built, yet strengthened by shared investment in innovation, learning, and long-term partnership.
Grant Lifecycle Manager
An all-in-one solution to securely manage your entire grantmaking process. With unlimited user access, including applicants, reviewers, grant recipients, staff, and board members, GLM ensures flexibility and accessibility. Its user-configurable design caters to the unique needs of grantees while providing insights into historical funding and impact.
Scholarship Lifecycle Manager
Designed to organize, manage, and streamline your scholarship or bursary workflow in one easy-to-use, cloud-based solution so you can free up time to focus on student success. Unlimited users can access the system anytime, anywhere. SLM saves time for applicants, reviewers, and administrators.
CommunitySuite
Break down silos by managing your overall financials, fund accounting, CRM, fundraising, events, and online donor and nonprofit portal activities in a single, intuitive solution. Created and continually updated with your unique needs in mind so you can build strong connections and maximize your impact.
SmartSimple
SmartSimple Cloud is a cloud-based automation and collaboration platform. Next-generation technology builds on nearly two-decades of empowering organizations to solve their complex process challenges.
GivingData
GivingData is a purpose-built grants management system that unites funders and grantees in a shared mission to focus on what matters most — working collaboratively to solve problems and increase impact. Streamline your grantmaking process, build trust-based relationships, and strengthen the work of your entire foundation through GivingData’s next-generation grants management software.
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Solutions to help you maximize your impact
Creating solutions that benefit our clients, regardless of your size or the complexity of your needs.
Grant Management
For Grantmaking Organizations
We streamline the grantmaking process, so you can strengthen grantee relationships and better support multiple stakeholders – including real-time engagement with reviewers and board members. From eliminating manual grant tracking and cumbersome spreadsheets to streamlining complex grant workflows, we improve the flow of your processes so you can focus on supporting grantees.
Fund Accounting
For Funders
We help you seamlessly manage financial activities in the same system with your other organizational needs. Fund accounting, donor accounts, ticketing, and other revenue tracked and managed alongside other activities means less silos, better communication, and more opportunities to collaborate.
Scholarship Management
For Scholarship Providers
We reduce the manual tasks and time to manage scholarship programs so you can shrink your workload and focus on successfully managing scholarships, bursaries, or grants to individuals with efficient workflows.
Fundraising & Event Management
For Grantmaking Organizations
We amplify your fundraising and events by streamlining the process to remove barriers like staff turnover, communication gaps, or reporting frustrations. From live event ticketing sales and giving campaigns to tracking and reporting, relax knowing it’s all happening in one place with accurate data, so you can focus on the results.
Donor Management
For Funders
We help you understand your donors at scale by tracking important moments, communications, and details. With clear records of donor interactions, you can provide a seamless experience and transparency which builds trust and long-term commitment. Personalize communications, identify trends, and rally support for your mission through a seamless tool built with your impact and growth in mind.
Constituent Relationship Management
For Funders
We centralize your constituent data so you can identify, nurture, and sustain meaningful relationships across your philanthropic community — from donors and volunteers to board members and grantees. From eliminating siloed data to streamlining engagement strategies, we give you a real-time view of your relationships so you can focus on driving impact.
Built to reduce friction.
Designed to deepen connection.
We use technology as a tool to bring people, data, and purpose into closer alignment. Our solutions help social good organizations collaborate more effectively, adapt to complexity, and work together in service of their missions.
Our commitment
More than software.
A long-term partner.
We are committed to being more than a software provider. As a foundational technology partner in social good, we listen first, design with empathy, and show up with honesty and accountability — especially when the work is complex, or the path forward isn’t clear.
Our clients’ Success is at the Heart of everything we do
Hear from our clients
- Deliver the expertise, standards, data, and technology needed to connect philanthropy.
- Make it our mission to help you create impact.
- Co-create with partners who share our passion, vision, and mission.
- Provide solutions to our clients’ challenges by implementing their feedback into our solutions.
For all types of social good organizations
Find a solution that fits your foundation or social good organization
Support & Success
Your experience and success is our single guiding focus. We are proud of the solutions we offer and believe they make a difference, but we also know they only make a difference if you feel empowered and knowledgeable using them. We are passionate about your success and excited to support you in achieving it!
Product Feedback Loop
You are the best indicator of whether our software meets the correct needs. Our Idea Lab allows you to share your suggestions with our Product Team directly. The Product Team then categorizes and prioritizes these requests, slotting them into the roadmap where they make the most sense for our users.
Connected Community
Connecting with other users online or networking with peers in person is essential. We provide several ways to engage with our connected community, including our online community – Compass, regional training events, Coffee Talk webinars, biennial Summit National Users Group, and more!
Our clients’ Success is at the Heart of everything we do
Hear from our clients
- Deliver the expertise, standards, data, and technology needed to connect philanthropy.
- Make it our mission to help you create impact.
- Co-create with partners who share our passion, vision, and mission.
- Provide solutions to our clients’ challenges by implementing their feedback into our solutions.
Foundant Fans
Become a happy client!
The transition to Foundant solutions was truly an organizational endeavor. In adopting this integrated system, we learned to work as one team across all departments, with Foundant as our partner every step of the way. In Foundant we have found a shared commitment in optimizing the impact we have in our community.”
Jay Williams
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
I can’t say how much I love the Foundant products. They have revolutionized our foundation processes & brought us into this century. But the icing on the cake is that every Foundant employee I have worked with is truly a super nice person who knows their stuff. It is a blessing to work with them.”
Evanna Hardin
Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation
Coming from a ‘quaint’ operation working on QuickBooks, Foundant has truly revolutionized all aspects of our operations. We are a better and stronger organization thanks our Foundant partnership.”
Dan Peters
Hastings Community Foundation
We continue to learn how to do our jobs better through Foundant, which is the best part of this investment. It’s unique to think you could be a better fundraiser because you have a better tool at your fingertips. We can take technology for granted, but for the first time in my career, a software solution has not only helped me do my job better, it also has not held me back from doing a better job. It’s a game changer. That’s what Foundant has been able to do for us and for me personally. It feels like a big win for the foundation’s future.”
Chris Quaka
Benton Community Foundation
Delivering on our promise to be more than a software Provider
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