Grantmaker
Grantmaker is an AI-powered grant management platform that helps public sector and charitable funders streamline the entire grant lifecycle—from application intake and scoring to risk assessment and budget allocation. It combines objective, criteria-based scoring with AI-driven risk checks and collaborative decision-making tools, enabling funders to make consistent, well-documented funding decisions at scale.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Financial Technology
- Government Technology
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
Product
Problem
Public sector and charitable funders often struggle with high volumes of grant applications, making it difficult to evaluate each one consistently and objectively. Manual processes for scoring, risk assessment, and budget allocation are time-consuming, prone to inconsistency, and can obscure critical red flags that should inform funding decisions.
Solution
Grantmaker provides an AI-powered grant management platform that automates and streamlines the entire grant-making workflow. The platform scores every application against the funder's custom criteria, performs automated risk checks against governance, financial, and public data sources, and brings all reviews, notes, and comments into a single collaborative workspace. Grantmaker's AI also optimizes budget allocation by balancing constraints like themes, financial years, and capital/revenue splits against application demands, then proposes a funding plan for the team to review and adjust. The setup process is conversational, with AI guiding funders through defining eligibility criteria, scoring rubrics, risk factors, and application forms, which can be refined as submissions arrive.
Target Audience
Primary customers are foundations, trusts, local governments, and other public sector or charitable funders who need to manage grant applications, conduct due diligence, and make funding decisions at scale.
Features
- AI-powered application scoring against custom eligibility criteria and scoring rubrics for consistent, objective evaluation at scale
- Automated risk screening that checks governance, financial data, news, and social media, with each risk rated and explained
- Collaborative review workspace consolidating reviews, notes, and comments with a clear, auditable decision trail
- Budget optimization engine that proposes funding allocations while balancing themes, financial years, and capital/revenue constraints
- Conversational AI setup that helps define criteria, scoring rubrics, risk factors, and application forms, refined as submissions arrive
- Integration with public registries like the Charity Commission for data enrichment and verification
- AI processing via AWS Bedrock (Anthropic Claude) and Mistral, with data not used for model training
- Passwordless authentication using one-time email codes or passkeys for enhanced security