Grant award features

When it comes time to award grants, Good Grants can help you communicate, manage and organise your new agreements and funding.

Solidify your funding agreement and manage budgets with supreme efficiency

Leverage the power and flexibility of Good Grants to manage your agreements, contracts and budgets all in one secure place.

Number 1

 Generate grant agreements or contracts

The contracts feature in Good Grants helps to ensure you and your recipients are aligned on the terms and intentions of the funding or support.

Generate personalised contracts, send them to applicants for signatures and store them securely for future use.

You can create as many contracts as you need. There are no limits.

How to sign a contract in Good Grants
Number two

Manage funds and budgets

Essential for safe funding commitments and funding decisions, Good Grants provides for the management of one or more funding budgets at the same time.

 

  • Compact easy to use view
  • Overview of budget totals
  • Impact of allocations on budgeted funds
  • Setup funds in any currency
  • Configure different budgets in different currencies
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Number 3

Allocate funds

Drawing from pre-configured funding budgets, fund allocation commitments can be made to each grantee or multiple grantees at the same time. 

Use of this service does not attract any distribution fee or percentage based fee for funds allocated. Your funds remain yours, in full. Always.

 

  • Dedicated view for panoramic insight of fund commitments given to every grantee
  • See which allocations are drawing from specific funds
  • View scheduled payments
  • Determine unscheduled balances
  • Allocate funding to individual organisations or in bulk
Good Grants interface showing how the user can allocate a fund to an application
Number 4

Schedule payments

Supporting both one-off and scheduled tranche payments, grant managers, financial officers and bookkeepers alike will find payment scheduling in Good Grants to be comprehensive, easy to use and secure.

 

  • Schedule payments for immediate or future disbursement
  • Create payment schedule templates for future use
  • Customisable payment method labels
  • Dedicated view over payments paid, scheduled and any unscheduled funds remaining
A Good Grants interface showing a payment schedule being set up.
Five

Manage it all with a dedicated dashboard

Keep track of all your funding and allocations in one location. Get quick and effective insight over budget totals, the impact of allocations made and the result on available funds.

Good Grants interface showing a list of grants that can easily be managed from this view.

Features you may be interested in

Filter + search

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Customise the search filters with your own fields. Use filtering to narrow down a list of results to include only those that are relevant for a particular purpose.

Broadcast email communications

Send bulk email communications targeted to specific program participants based on roles, activities and more. 

Triggered email notifications

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Send emails to system users automatically based on triggered events, such as application submitted, user registered and more.

Audit log

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Ensure your program compliance with the audit log. It allows you to maintain a detailed and searchable record of all user activity within your Good Grants program.

Built-in cookie notice and consent

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Give your users the option to select their preferred cookie consent option by displaying a cookie consent selection message. Good Grants users can change their cookie consent option at any time.

 

Extra encryption protection for sensitive data

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Optionally configure higher levels of data protection on personally identifiable and sensitive data.

Frequently asked questions

How do I select and manage grant winners in Good Grants?
Once reviews are complete, you can identify top applicants using scores and reviewer recommendations. You can create shortlists and use tags, including auto-tagging, to label shortlisted applicants for easy filtering and retrieval.
Can I create shortlists before finalising grant winners?
Yes. You can create and manage shortlists based on scoring results and the steps you define in your evaluation process. For example, you can move applications through stages such as qualifying, shortlisting, or internal review before making final funding decisions. This helps narrow down top applicants in a structured and consistent way.
How are final grant decisions recorded in Good Grants?

Final decisions are recorded using grant statuses. You can assign a status to each application, such as in progress, fully allocated, partly allocated, declined, or closed, based on your program’s outcomes.
These statuses create a clear, structured record of decisions, making it easy to track progress, filter applicants, and report on outcomes with full transparency.

Can I notify applicants of their grant results automatically?

Yes. You can configure automatic outcome-based notifications to inform applicants of results. Communications can be customised based on the decision, ensuring clear and consistent messaging.

How does Good Grants support fair and transparent funding decisions?

All review data, scores, and outcomes are recorded within the platform, providing a clear audit trail. This ensures decisions are consistent, traceable, and defensible.

Can I export or report on grant outcomes?
Yes. You can export results and reporting data for internal analysis, stakeholder reporting, or compliance purposes. This includes applicant data, scores, and final decisions.
Can I manage multiple funding decisions across different opportunities?
Yes. Outcomes can be managed across multiple opportunities or funding streams within the same program, each with its own results and reporting.
Can I prepare data for post-award reporting during the award stage?

Yes. You can prepare for post-award reporting during the award stage by setting up the structures you will use after funding decisions are made. Grant managers can:

  • Create grant report forms in advance, aligned to each funding opportunity or program requirement
  • Add multiple grant reports per application form, depending on reporting needs (e.g. progress, final, impact)
  • Set up funds, ready for allocation once decisions are finalised
  • Create contract templates to issue to successful grantees

This ensures reporting, compliance, and fund distribution processes are ready to go as soon as awards are confirmed.