Grunnmur · Foundations · Norway
The grant-making lifecycle, end to end.
A platform for foundation management across the grant-making lifecycle: application intake, assessment, portfolio monitoring, and impact tracking, so funding decisions accumulate into learning.
Client
Tom Wilhelmsens Stiftelse
Sector
Foundations
Where
Norway
Status
In development
Funding decisions that do not add up to learning.
A foundation receives applications by the hundred, assesses them by committee, and follows the grants it makes across years. Each step lives in a different place: an inbox, a spreadsheet, a board paper, a final report filed and rarely read again.
The result is that every funding round starts from scratch. What the foundation learned from the last portfolio, what worked, what did not, and why, is not in front of the people deciding the next one.
One platform from application intake to impact, built on the foundation's own data.
Intake and assessment
Applications arrive structured, are checked against the foundation's criteria, and are assessed with the history of similar grants beside them. Assessors see the evidence, not just the pitch.
- Structured intake
- Criteria checks
- Assessment support
Portfolio monitoring
Every active grant, its milestones, reporting and spend, in one view for the secretariat and the board. Reporting that used to be assembled by hand is generated from the record.
- Portfolio view
- Board reporting
- Milestones
Impact tracking
Outcomes captured against each grant and rolled up across the portfolio, so the foundation can see what its funding changed and carry that into the next round.
- Outcome capture
- Portfolio learning
- Cited history
Structure, visibility and learning, in that order.
The data layer first
Applications, grants, reports and outcomes joined into one governed record before any assistant is built on top.
Governed access
Who may see what, agreed with the foundation's leadership and enforced in the layer, so applicant data is handled with care.
Built with the secretariat
Designed beside the people who run the rounds today, so the platform fits the way the foundation actually decides.
Owned by the foundation
The platform runs in the foundation's environment and stays theirs when we step back.
What changed
One record per grant
From application to final outcome, in one place, for the first time.
Reporting from the record
Portfolio reporting generated from the live record instead of assembled by hand each quarter.
Each round informed by the last
Assessors decide with the foundation's own history of what worked in front of them.
Let's talk.
We are taking on projects globally. Oslo and London.
