Funder Discovery

Turn a mountain of prospecting into board-ready reports.

The research is the easy half — packaging it for everyone who needs to weigh in is the grind. Grantable generates polished match reports from your prospecting, as many as the conversation needs, each shareable as a live link.

"Your ED wants a list of potential funders for the board meeting. You've done weeks of prospecting — and now face two more days squeezing it into a spreadsheet that still looks like amateur hour."

1. the packaging grind

990 notesfit scoresgiving datacontactsrationale…

board_report_v3.xlsx

day 2 of formatting
Funder
Amount
Notes
Hartwell
$50K
good fit?
Meridian
$120K
call first

weeks of research, two more days making it presentable — "can you make it look nicer?"

2. board-ready, generated

Funder Match Report — Q3

The Hartwell Fund 82 · Strong
Meridian Foundation 76 · Strong
Grove Family Trust 61 · Good

Why these three: geographic fit, first-time-grantee openness, award sizes matched to capacity…

fit scores, rationale, funder detail — formatted for people who've never read a 990

3. one per audience, live

for the board

the summary and the ask

live link

for your ED

detail + recommended sequence

live link

for the program team

what each funder cares about

live link

links you control — expiry dates, view limits, email-restricted when needed

2 days to package a board report Generated and shared in minutes Report packaging time
Included in every plan

The old way vs. the Grantable way.

You know the old workflow. Here's how it changes.

The manual packaging grind

  1. 1

    Stare at the research mountain

    Weeks of prospecting notes, scores, and funder details — none of it presentable

  2. 2

    Export data to a spreadsheet

    Copy funder names, amounts, and notes into rows by hand

  3. 3

    Format for readability

    Headers, color-coding, merged cells — make it look professional

  4. 4

    Write up your analysis

    A cover memo explaining why you chose these funders

  5. 5

    Version it for each audience

    The board wants a summary; the program team wants detail — two more passes

  6. 6

    Answer follow-up questions

    "Why this funder? What's their giving history?" — dig up the data again

Grantable match reports

  1. 1

    One-click report

    Generate a polished report straight from your prospecting research

  2. 2

    Professional formatting

    Clean layout with fit scores, rationale, and funder details

  3. 3

    Make as many as you need

    A version for the board, one for your ED, one for the program team

  4. 4

    Share a live link

    Recipients see the report in their browser — with expiry and view limits you control

  5. 5

    Built for non-specialists

    Clear enough for board members who've never read a 990

  6. 6

    Skip the formatting entirely

    The packaging step stops being a two-day job

Reports that move decisions.

Professional funder reports your board will actually read — generated from research you already did.