# Grant Lifecycle Manager Reviews **Vendor:** Foundant Technologies **Category:** [Grant Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/grant-management) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 24 ## About Grant Lifecycle Manager Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM) is designed to manage your entire grantmaking process in one secure, easy-to-use solution so you can free up time to pursue your mission. Unlimited users, including applicants, reviewers, grant recipients, staff, and board members, can access the system anytime, anywhere. Built to be user-configurable—GLM’s flexible grantmaking helps you meet the unique needs of your grantees. ## Grant Lifecycle Manager Reviews ### 1. GLM has grantee in mind when building the process! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ellen H. | Grants Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** As a grant writer, I feel the software is above what I expect when having online opportunities to fill in grants. Now as a grant maker, I love the extra features that can be created to make the grant process easier! The implementation is easy to do and love the additional features of eligibility quizes, LOI evaluations all with the click of a button. We have had great customer service when it comes to adding additional features or learning more about the features we are including in our process. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** My only 'dislike' at the moment is the inability to keep our login clean. We encourage all members of the organization that will be working on a grant to create their own account and use the collaboration feature, but then we struggle when leadership turns over, board members leave,etc. I have not found a good way for maintanence of this. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are now able to keep all aspects of the grant process in one place. We can upload files with ease if we prefer to have a paper copy and then we can also streamline our evaluations to be online with everything being housed in one spot. The efficiency this is creating is huge! ### 2. Foundant Grant Lifecycle Management Client Focused **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennifer D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** The best part of Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM) is how it adapts to client needs and continues to improve client experience based on client feedback. They are extremely helpful if a client is struggling with any part of the GLM process. Between the support team and the implementation and product teams, they are in a continuous improvement loop that helps us as clients better serve our grant applicants. This all has lead to better application experience across the users. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** While the program continues to improve and the organization responds quickly, our organization could use some improvement in Organizational profiles and information we are able to capture there. We are a government organization and have restrictions on our funding and eligibility that we had to improvise to make work. Mainly the requirement to produce a SAM.gov number and an internal state accounting number. We also have some eligibility that it hard to capture on a form **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed new grants management software. We signed with Foundant because it has the 1) most responsive support and client success team, 2) the interface was user friendly for staff and for grant applicants, 3) it was entirely web based. #3 was a lifesaver when our entire staff went remote during the pandemic. We were able to continue our grant making, while keeping staff safe. ### 3. Very happy with our Foundant software suite! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** We utilize GLM, SLM and CSuite. As program director I spend most of my time in GLM but the back end integration is very helpful and having the whole software suite makes it easy to find all the information I need quickly **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** The Sandbox. If you create a new process (or wish to update an old one), you can't test it properly because once your fake applicant answers a question, that question can no longer be deleted. I understand why this is important in the live site but why in the sandbox? In my mind, the sandbox would be useful if I could test a process, perfect the process and then have support migrate it to the live site. There is no current way to do this so I rarely use it. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mangement of applicants, evaluators, and the entire process from start to finish. It's wonderful having it all in one place, and the software is user friendly, even for those that are intimidated by tech. ### 4. Efficient for Administrators, Applicants, and Reviewers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Fund-Raising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Foundant has been a very useful tool for grant management on staff. We've also had a lot of positive feedback on the platform from applicants and evaluators. Staff is easily able to pull reports and review the metrics dashboard to keep track of tasks and report on our granting programs. Several applicants have noted that this platform is easier to use for applications and managing their grants than platforms other funders have used. Our reviewers have also commended the platform for being easy to use, particularly the side by side feature that allows them to read the application and score grants simultaneously. Overall, this is a product we would recommend to other funders. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** While there are many upgrades to the platform, several of the upgrades are not yet at a stage that we can use them in our processes. We wanted to be able to use the Docusign integration but would like to be able to assign someone other than the applicant to be the signatory, as often times the authorizing signatory is not the applicant. We'd love to use the table feature to collect information about project teams, but the table feature has a very limited number of characters allowed. We'd love to be able to connect questions from different processes on our own to make reporting easier. We'd also like to be able to copy questions within the same application as often we are asking questions that require slight tweaks, such as asking for uploads of budgets from multiple years, and currently have to enter each question manually. However, these are small things we'd like to be able to do. Largely, the experience of using this product is very positive. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** GLM allows us to manage numerous grant lines between multiple administrators and many reviewers smoothly and efficiently. It also is a great repository for our grant making data. ### 5. Very user-friendly grant system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melissa E. | Executive Vice President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I like pretty much everything about Foundant's Grant Lifecycle Manager system. It is very user friendly for both me and applicants. The customer service is amazing. They always respond very quickly. I frequently hear from applicants how much they like our system and how easy it is for them to navigate. I would highly reocmmend it and have recommended it to several agencies. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** There isn't anything that I dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager. I would recommend it to anybody. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is what we use for our application process and follow up reports. We also track payments through it. It has streamlined all of these processes for us. ### 6. Because of GLM, we can more effectively impact our community. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ann K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** GLM allows us to more effectively and efficiently manage our own grant processes as well as supporting our corporate fundholders. One of the hidden benefits that we've discovered is that our corporate fundholders are willing to pay a fee for service to partner with us on using GLM. We handle all the set up, due diligence, questions, and processing. They get to evaluate and make the decisions. Then we follow up and do all the post decision steps. We love being able to support our community in this way! **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I've had great experiences with GLM and SLM. We've recently added CSuite, and I wish some of the help articles went a little more in-depth. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love the automation of GLM in helping to manage my workflow. ### 7. User friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jean P. | Manager - Community Benefit and Partner Relations, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Applicants rarely have issues, forms made easy with the ability to copy quesitons from previous forms. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Most issues with applicants happen when a new development person comes on board. I think it would be helpful once they idicate they are the primary to have access to all past applications. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having one cloud based place for all our information ### 8. Long Time Partners! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura S. | Director of Communications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I have never had anything but fantastic interactions with Foundant. I analyzed 13 companies before selecting Foundant, and they were the clear front-runner. There wasn't even a close 2nd place! They adapt when we need it, helped us develop a questionnaire for a PRI, and they are always around when we forget how to do something. They are great partners! **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Nothing. They routinely ask and adapt their programs. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing requests for investments, partnerships and grants. ### 9. Over a decade of benefit from GLM. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jamie J. | Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Our Foundation has been using GLM for over a decade and it has streamlined our grantmaking immensely. Our subscription to this service is some of the best money we spend every year. I couldn't imagine doing our work without it. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** We haven't had any notable negative issues with GLM at all. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving away from paper applica ### 10. Great Product that Keeps Getting Better **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James N. | Director of Grants, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** We have been using Foundant for 6 years and I love that the organization listens to feedback, is accessible, and is continually improving the product. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** No major complaints, especially since the small issues I have encountered over the years have been addressed. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Capacity. We are a small organization that provides multiple grant and program opportunities. GLM allows us to manage these programs in a way that fits within our current staff capacity. ### 11. Quick, Intuitive, and Efficient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** GLM is incredibly user friendly. From the Administrader side it is easy to move from section to section. From the Applicant side it is very user friendly to know what to do next and where they are currently at. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** The biggest dislike about GLM is some of the rules around what users can do from themselves vs what us as staff have to do for them. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving our management of our grant application, review, approval, and payments for all of our organization's grants. It is helping us save hours on hours a week of work. ### 12. Foundant is a game changer! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Betsy T. | Fiscal Compliance Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Foundant has streamlined our grant application and evaluation process. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I cannot come up with a downside to using Foundant, they have thought of everything! **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to utilize Foundant technology to streamline our application and evaluation processes, seamlessly transition a grantee through the grant lifecycle and gather quantitative data on all aspects of the grant process. ### 13. GLM is a great tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carol S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Customizable forms throughout. Eligibility quiz and evaluation scoring. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Reporting is not intuitive and doesn't produce meaningful reporting without downloading to excel **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking grants from application through award, and for financial audits. Obtain feedback reports for marketing. Facilitate competitive grant making. ### 14. Great Resource for Grantmakers! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** The best part of the GLM is the ease of use for our applicants. Applicants can easily access different applications and when we encounter issues, the support team is incredibly helpful. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** There are still some things that we'd like to see in terms of syncing from the GLM to CSuite, but overall the features are great! **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** The GLM allows us to keep all of our application processes in one place, as well as grant histories for organizations. ### 15. Excellent Experiences w/Grant LifeCycle Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** D.L. A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I've found Grant LifeCycle Manager to be easy-to-use and straight-forward/intuitive. I have had positive experiences each time I've used the product - seamless and no surprises. I've been an end user, a consultant, and an admisitrator with this product, although my primary use has been as a consultant. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I've not yet experienced any negatives or "downsides" to the product; I have had only positive experiences. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some benefits have included, yet are not limited to: Ease of use/entry of data; ease of formatting; clarity of instructions for how to utilize and options/features. ### 16. Foundant GLM Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Philanthropy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** The easy access to Candid, Docusign & the organizational history. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** It would be nice if there was a "library" of questions to pull in to the applications so there were fewer steps to integrate them into different types of grant applications. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** pulling reports. ### 17. Great support and an intuitive system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amie M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Foundant GLM is intuitive and easy for me to use. If I have any trouble, I can get help to figure it out. Everyone at Foundant is professional and helpful. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** It's hard to come up with something, but it might be nice to have more contrast on forms so I can easily find where questions are answered as I scan the page. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can easily assist grantees through the request process, making it easier for them to get to the important work they do. ### 18. Transforming Grants Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doug E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** ease of use ability to customize everything the support team is robust always adding now question types to be innovative/competative **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** The only downside is it can sometimes become a lengthy application if you have many short questions - but that would be true for anyone. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** GLM is solving all our grant management needs, especially as we are currently making our grants more accessible and manageable from the applicant's point of view. We have seen almost a 200% increase in grant applications. ### 19. Very responsive company **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I am not sure how they do it but Foundant shines where it counts. Their responsiveness and readily available support staff make me feel like I am the only client. I have not waited more than 5 minutes to be speaking with an actual person. As a grant administrator who never intended to also be our agency’s database manager this is key in allowing me to spend my time on my job. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** User permissions could be expanded upon. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Foundant can help keep hundreds of applications organized. ### 20. Foundant GLM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lori P. | Grants Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Foundant continually improves the software and provides excellent customer service. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Email can be sent from GLM, but responses go to default email and must be saved and uploaded to GLM to be attached to applicant/grant request. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our applicants find the system easy to use. ### 21. Foundant Grants Management System **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alison M. H. | Program Officer, Education, Philanthropy, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2017 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I like that Foundant has built-in automated functions, such as reminder emails/templates for late uploads, to make it easier to keep track of reporting deadlines, etc. I also like that you can create customized reports easily in the system, as well as track payments and payment deadlines within each grant proposal. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I don't like that Foundant seems to lag when creating large reports/files, or that you can't edit applications/proposals after they are already embedded into the system. Our Foundation recently created a whole new set of applications that we used from 2015-present, but it is hard to track data before 2015 because of the way Foundant reporting pulls from specific applications only. **Recommendations to others considering Grant Lifecycle Manager:** It is fine for basic use, but not always good for more in-depth data analysis of your grants. You have to create your own reports to look at trends within Program area/category, or by year of grant. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are storing all of our grants data by organization within Foundant, from 1972-present. We have been able to keep track of what grants we may have already given an organization when they approach us for a new project/proposal, as well as report on money out the door, money awarded, # of organizations, etc. through their customizable reports. Foundant also helps us automate our grant letters/awards by filling in most of the data for us when we run the decisions each month. ### 22. Great Grants Management System for Most Basic Needs **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** This no-frills platform provides grantmakers with the most basic cloud-based grantmaking database needs. Clear option for very small teams or those with minimal functionality needs and little-to-no customization needs. Very dedicated and hands-on support from Foundant team. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Price is not competitive in current landscape of grants management solutions. Foundant GLM user interface feels a bit clunky and dated, and does not allow for much customization or robust tailored views, searches, reporting, etc. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Foundant GLM provides a solid cloud-based database for basic grants management. Solves basic need to record and enter data, search grants, and run reports. ### 23. Grant Management Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tammy G. | Data & Analytics, Non-Profit Organization Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** That the company is reactive in adapting the program. **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** Still very much targets foundations and smaller users. **Recommendations to others considering Grant Lifecycle Manager:** This is a great solution for grant management. It’s very flexible in tweaking it to meet a variety of needs once you dig into it. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Granting funds and we’re able to better track expenditures with the product. ### 24. Complicated but helpful software **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I like that the software gives me the opportunity to centralize all of the information about our grantees **What do you dislike about Grant Lifecycle Manager?** I find that the software takes a lot of time to learn. There Is a site that helps you understand it’s features but I’d argue that the software is not intuitive. **Recommendations to others considering Grant Lifecycle Manager:** I would take a significant amount of time making sure staff have the time and space to learn and implement the software together. **What problems is Grant Lifecycle Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to solve problems of getting adequate information and intel about the effectiveness of our Grantmaking. - [View Grant Lifecycle Manager pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/grant-lifecycle-manager/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-23+23%3A03%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=5e56686f-e5a1-4165-a38c-87724a0a587b&secure%5Btoken%5D=1e08ab3282dbc24e81e980ed531d0c0b834e768226f68a45815977e645dc1760&format=llm_user) ## Grant Lifecycle Manager Features **Proposal Management** - Form Building - Review Tools - Grantee Portal - Attachments - Task Management **Fund Tracking** - Disbursements - Email Notifications **Impact & Outcomes** - Program Evaluation - Data Analytics - Ad Hoc Reporting **Compliance** - Eligibility Screening - Auditing **Integrations** - Fund Accounting - Donor Management ## Top Grant Lifecycle Manager Alternatives - [Bloomerang CRM](https://www.g2.com/products/bloomerang-crm/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (878 reviews) - [Submittable](https://www.g2.com/products/submittable/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (167 reviews) - [Benevity](https://www.g2.com/products/benevity/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (174 reviews)