Grantmaking for Charities

Track the whole process

Enable your beneficiaries to make grant applications directly from your own website, and manage the whole application journey through a handy visual workflow.

Take applications from your website

Track the grant from application to payment

See all grants in one place

Configured for you

As the most user-friendly CRM on the planet, Beacon can be made to fit your unique processes and requirements. Get set up in minutes, then customise as you grow.

Set up your own application criteria

Create your own templates

Manage contracts and agreements

Get next-level insights

Pull reports on the status of your grant applications and get reliable data on exactly how much has been paid out.

Get real-time grant status reports

See how much has been paid out

Trust that your data is held securely

Beautifully simple grantmaking software

Transparency

Combine your grant-making with fundraising to see exactly which funds contributed to which grants. Great for driving transparency into your fundraising and building trust with donors.

Robust application management

Manage multi-stage applications, let applicants see what stage they’re at and gather additional information and documents from beneficiaries as they move through the process.

Grant calculation

Create Excel-style formulas to automatically work out grant amounts, score applicant eligibility, and streamline your admin.

Privacy-centric

Assign user roles and permissions so you can control who has access to different grant records and fields. Learn more.

Notifications & alerts

Create customised in-app and email notifications when payments are due, or the status of a grant programme changes.

Solid security

Everything in Beacon is encrypted and stored securely in the UK. Learn more.

Innovative charities choose Beacon,
and stick with Beacon.

Siobhan McKeever

@

Manchester Foundation Trust

“It’s genuinely all the things we need, in one place”

Shelley McCarthy

@

NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation

"I don't know what we'd have done after the relaunch if we hadn't had Beacon. It would have been carnage!"

Denice Houslin

@

Foothold

We never imagined the CRM would be able to automatically calculate the grant amount, but the team at Beacon got it done.

Joe Meehan

@

New Hope

Every time we speak with Beacon’s support team we are glad we chose Beacon rather than the alternative.

Sam Mackwell

@

Embrace the Middle East

Beacon gives us the confidence that there will be a way to do something. That makes all the difference.

Don’t just take our word for it…

NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation

How NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation Nearly 10X’d Their Grant Applications Since Switching to Beacon

"I don't know what we'd have done after the relaunch if we hadn't had Beacon. It would have been carnage!"

Shelley McCarthy

Charity Chief Officer

at

NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation