Designed to manage your entire grants lifecycle, from application intake to post-award monitoring. Our platform is one of the highest rated grants management systems reviewed by Idealware. Read our review in their Consumer’s Guide to Grants Management Software.
Our platform powers our grants management solutions for your corporations and foundations.
Connect with all your constituents at an unprecedented level of detail and personalization.
Work more closely, and more effectively with your applicants, grants staff, program staff, reviewers, and board.
Track outcomes and Demonstrate real impact you are delivering to your community.
Our robust CRM features include built-in calendars and email broadcast giving you a dynamic view of your constituents, helping you to communicate more effectively.
With our platform, you can organize all of your application data from the source, type, status, due date, contact, and any custom field of your choosing.
Create and manage any number of your programs. With comprehensive online portals, you can track post-award data as well as up-to-date communications, saving hours of administrative work.
Our comprehensive tools can generate meeting specific documentation, meeting agendas with alerts and reminders, as well as meeting minutes and documents.
Our platform offers robust reporting and visualization tools, providing a full snapshot of your impact through rich dashboards and stunning charts and graphs.
Keep track of every single dollar you’ve awarded. Organize all your financial data, allocate funds, track funding from a grant or a program perspective and aggregate reporting across your programs.
Rich and configurable portals for Grants Managers, Program Officers, Reviewers, Board Members, Finance Managers, Applicants, and Grantees. Other powerful tools include:
Dynamic forms including multi-stage forms, conditional questions, online budgets, form version control and sophisticated form validation.
Create reminders for all your processes and forms and a complete audit trail including field value changes.
A wide variety of relevant templates from meeting dockets and GDPR-compliant applications.
Automated creation of all your post-award activities including, payment schedules, PRI repayment schedules, reports, and outcomes.
Administer role or attribute-based profiles to every constituent in your database. Users can now consolidate their personal and organizational profiles into one to decrease data redundancies.
SmartSimple connects seamlessly with a wide range of services
Verify the status of any organization with the IRS in the United States, CRA in Canada and Charity Commissioners in the United Kingdom. SmartSimple also provides integration with OFAC (Office of Foreign Asset Control), ensuring you’re funding legitimate organizations.
SmartSimple connects to Simplify (created by Technology Affinity Group – TAG) and GuideStar, providing market-standard data-sharing that gives you access to all relevant information from grantees.
SmartSimple’s Signority service solution gives you the ability to sign documents online without paper or pens.Signority complies with various North American and European Union electronic signature laws.
SmartSimple supports Foundation Center's eGrant and Grant Reporting initiatives, providing funders the ability to share grant data details.
Gain visual insight into where applicants work to gain better perspective on funding.
Google's online translation service instantly converts text in more than 80 languages.
“SmartSimple is ideal for increasing efficiencies, but it’s so much more than that. It’s built for tracking engagements, contracts, and users, making it absolutely invaluable for managing our grants and other activities.”
Linda Thompson
Senior Vice President, Program Administration & Organizational Learning
“The SmartSimple team really listened to what we wanted and needed in a grants management system. They offered the flexibility and accessibility we were looking for and at a reasonable price.”
Kim Thao
Senior Vice President, Program Administration & Organizational Learning
“The biggest thing that resonated with me was that you don’t have to have a tech background to use and make changes in the system.”
Tracie Mooneyham
Program & Grants Manager
“Everyone is finding the automated workflows much more efficient than our manual process ever was. Foundations are typically slow to get with the times, but now I feel like I’m way ahead of the curve.”
June Matayoshi
Grants Manager
“The use of SmartSimple has revolutionized our grants management processes in many ways.”
Celeste from Atlanta, GA
“SmartSimple has drastically reduced the time it takes to complete tasks.”
Mel from Cleveland, OH
“Grantees receive their payments faster. We receive our reports and contracts quicker.”
Kim from Milwaukee, WI
“Tracking outgoing grants, grant applications, grantee reporting, compliance, organizations and contacts.”
Ann from San Francisco, CA
SmartSimple Direct is ideal for foundations with limited budgets looking for a simple yet complete grants management system delivered all in two weeks.
