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Grant management built for private family foundations.

No public application portals. No sorting through thousands of stranger submissions. Built for funders who work with trusted organizations by invitation.

Live at: grantis.io
Discipline: Foundation & Endowment Software
Built and run in: Seattle, WA

Grant management for funders who know who they fund.

Legacy grant management platforms were designed for massive government agencies and university review boards. They impose bloated multi-step application portals, complex rubric builders, and thousands of public form submissions that private family foundations and trusts simply do not need.

Grantis strips away the bureaucratic overhead. Built exclusively for funders operating on an invited basis, it consolidates communication, proposal reviews, trustee scoring, and board docket preparation into a single, elegant record.

How It Operates

4 System Phases

Program & Endowment Framing

Establish giving initiatives, multi-year funding envelopes, and disbursement targets in one dashboard.

Direct Applicant Invitation

Send private, personalized application links to trusted grantees. Zero public forms, zero spam.

Collaborative Trustee Review

Trustees and program officers evaluate proposals, annotate budgets, and record votes in a shared docket.

Board Packet & Disbursement

Generate executive board presentation decks with one click, track multi-year grant disbursements, and monitor reporting milestones.

Core Capabilities

One Master Grant Record

From the initial outreach email to final closeout reporting, every attachment, comment, and payment lives in one place.

One-Click Board Docket

Eliminate days of manual document collation. Export beautiful, formatted executive packets ready for trustee review.

Multi-Year Disbursement Schedules

Automate tranche releases, track matching fund contingencies, and maintain clear records for tax and legal compliance.

Uncluttered Grantee Portal

Invited nonprofits get a respectful, minimal workspace to submit requested budgets and progress updates without technical confusion.

Grant management for private foundations that already know who they fund.

One immutable grant record from program inception to board docket closeout.

Who It Is Built For

Private family foundations, donor-advised charitable trusts, and institutional endowments managing focused giving programs.

Exclusions

Who It Is Not For

—Municipal or state government agencies administering open public RFP grants.
—Nonprofits tracking incoming fundraising donations.

Extended Documentation

Software for the Way Private Foundations Actually Operate

Most grant management software was built twenty years ago for public universities and state agencies. They force users through endless dropdown menus, cumbersome public applicant intake funnels, and labyrinthine scoring systems.

Private foundations, family offices, and mission-driven trusts operate on an entirely different model: they build deep, ongoing relationships with a focused circle of non-profit leaders, community initiatives, and research institutions. They don't need a public bullhorn; they need operational elegance.

Grantis was engineered specifically around this invited-grant workflow.

Built for Discretion and Focus

Invitation-Only Intake: There is no public apply page. You invite the organizations you have vetted, providing them with a clear, respectful form to upload proposals and budgets.
The Unified Grant Record: In Grantis, a grant is not split across five disconnected modules. Communication, financial verification, board commentary, award letters, and milestone reports all attach to a single timeline.
Automated Trustee Dockets: Before every quarterly board meeting, Grantis compiles all active recommendations into an executive-ready docket with financial summaries, voting sheets, and program notes.

Explore Grantis at grantis.io

Designed, built, and run in-house.