Sharing Your Grants Data – Benefits for Your Organization and for the Sector
Philanthropy Southeast is partnering with Candid to encourage members to share their grants data and help provide more accurate, current data on foundation grantmaking.
We ask you to help tell the full story of foundation giving in the Southeast by committing today to share your grants data with Candid. By sharing your grants data, your organization can ensure that Philanthropy Southeast and Candid are able to provide a more complete picture of foundation support for our region and its communities. Data is critical to sharing the impact of philanthropy, especially in a time when we see foundations and nonprofits coming under increasing scrutiny.
In addition to empowering the sector, here are three more benefits to sharing grants data with Candid:
- You can take control of your story. You can share more details about your grants than in your IRS Form 990, which means you can communicate better and faster about what the grant is meant to accomplish and whom it’s meant to serve.
- You are eligible to receive a free single-seat subscription to Foundation Maps, Candid’s premier data visualization tool. This free subscription will help you visualize funding insights and trends and identify opportunities to maximize your giving impact.
- You can learn more about the demographics of your grantees. Candid can help you analyze the demographic composition of the leadership of grantee organizations in your portfolio, for those grantees who have provided this information via their Candid profile. If you are interested in receiving this benefit, please contact brittany.hall@candid.org.
If your organization is new to data sharing, it’s easy to submit your grants data. You can follow the instructions on this page. Sharing your data can be as simple as following these two steps:
- Export a complete list of your most recent grants data to a spreadsheet following this template.
- Email your grants file to egrants@candid.org.
The link above also includes answers to frequently asked questions and tips on sharing your data.
For additional information, visit the Candid website or contact Stephen Sherman, Senior Director of Engagement and Learning, at stephen@philanthropysoutheast.org.
