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Community Foundations

Your Foundation’s Grantmaking Platform

Fulfill your mission and transform your community with IG Essentials, your advanced grantmaking solution.

At IGX Solutions, we understand the challenges foundations face in driving meaningful change. Our software was designed with both grant funders and recipients in mind, empowering you to deepen grantee relationships and achieve measurable community impact.

As trust-based giving, participatory grantmaking and a focus on equity continue to influence the modern foundation landscape, IG Essentials helps you keep up with modern expectations and meet all necessary standards. Watch your funding flourish when you get started today.

Our solution has optimized the grant management process for everyone from community foundations to the federal government.

Grantmaker Software That Addresses Your Challenges

Our team brings a long history of grant administration to our work, ensuring our grantmaking software addresses the unique concerns you face:

Bureaucratic barriers

It takes time to fill out paperwork and answer communications — time your grantees could spend making use of your funding. Our solution facilitates automated, trust-based grantmaking processes.

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Relationship building

Your relationship with grantees and the communities they serve is essential to achieving results. IG Essentials offers partnership tools to encourage enhanced collaboration and communication.

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Inequitable application processes

Applicants have diverse needs. IG Essentials offers accessible designs and mobile support for a user-friendly experience.

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Limited impact visibility

Impactful changes are a powerful motivator for allocating future funds, and we give grantees the tools they need to clearly see results.

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Administrative obstacles

IG Essentials features a grantee-centered workflow that supports your foundation’s processes while giving your team more time to focus on achieving results.

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Streamlining Foundation Grant Administration

At IGX Solutions, we experienced these challenges every day, which led us to develop IG Essentials and our full range of grant management software for foundations. These powerful features help you build community and lead the charge in modern philanthropy:

Trust-based grantmaking tools

We reduce the reporting burden while maintaining accountability and community partnerships.

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Equity and inclusion features

We support fair, accessible grantmaking processes focused on community voices and needs.

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Community partnership management

We help you go beyond funding transactions to build communicative, collaborative partnerships with the people who need them most.

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Community voice platforms and impact storytelling

We help amplify personal stories that exemplify systemic changes, so you can see the results of your work in real time.

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For Organizations

Tools to Fit Every Organization

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  • Customized roles, workflows, forms and reports for your organization
  • Flexibility for many use cases
  • Purpose-built tools for a wide range of organizations

For organizations seeking a highly customized grant management platform, our traditional implementation approach involves in-depth business analysis and collaboration with each customer. We work together to define system user types, process flows, forms, and management reports.

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  • Preconfigured roles, workflows, forms, and reports for your organization
  • Budget flexibility
  • Accelerated implementations facilitate a quicker startup

For organizations with limited budgets or tight timelines, we offer IGXpress. This option includes preconfigured roles, workflows, forms, and reports for all grant management processes. The benefit of IGXpress is that it’s quicker to implement and costs less than a customized solution.

Reach out to our team to learn more about which option is a good fit for your organization.

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Why Your Foundation Needs Our Compliance Software

As foundations grow and evolve, they need grant-tracking software that keeps pace. IGX Solutions brings a deep understanding of modern philanthropy practices and foundation funding strategies, ensuring our staff and software can support you in key areas such as foundation governance and community partnership development. 

We have gathered years of experience in working with compliance requirements, fiduciary responsibilities and a range of proprietary operational systems, all of which integrate with our plug-and-play foundation grant management software.

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Common Questions About Grant Management for Foundations

Here are a few questions your foundation may have about grant management and our solution.

As a foundation, you may have shifting priorities and strategies that call for flexible grant management processes, which you can more effectively establish with a solution designed for grant management.

You may also prepare and send out various proposals for funding to various groups. Grant management software can help you keep up with these volumes and find the most effective ways to use your resources.

Once you’re awarded grants, you must keep careful records for boards, donors and regulatory compliance. Grant management software also tracks these details and extracts meaningful insights.

If you’re considering switching from another grant management method to a dedicated software, here are a few tips to ease the transition:

  • Choose an intuitive platform: Some grant management platforms are easier to use. By selecting a platform known for usability, you can make even less tech-savvy users more comfortable.
  • Seek a partner to guide you: Your software provider can do more for you. When selecting one, look for those that offer transition support.
  • Standardize processes: Some solutions are more configurable than others. By choosing one with more flexibility, you can adapt it to suit your particular grant management requirements.

We understand that grant management is often a collaborative process, especially in foundations, which rely on staff, board and external partners to make funding decisions. Our platform makes it easier for you to work together, even from afar, with features like role-based permissions to decide what each user can do. You can also set up separate logins for each user so everyone has a unique account where they can work.

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Upgrading your grant administration processes ultimately gives you more time to invest in your grantees, sub-grantees and the communities they serve. Reduce your administrative burden and help your recipients do more with your unparalleled support. 

Schedule a demo for IG Essentials and see our philanthropic grant tracking software in action today.

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