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What if your next grant didn’t just fund a project—but invested in your people, your impact, and your long-term success?
Discover how Collaborative Cohorts are providing the tools, coaching, and community nonprofits need to grow your impact, strengthen storytelling, and build relationships with mission-aligned funders.
This fall, the Bay Area Cohort will reconvene for an in-person gathering focused on reflection, connection, and continued learning. Grantees will check in on progress, share insights, and deepen collaboration as they work toward more effective, data-driven impact.
We’re excited to attend #GDConnect2025, where funders and partners gather to explore innovation in philanthropy. UpMetrics is looking forward to connecting with the GivingData community, sharing insights, and learning alongside peers driving impact through data and collaboration.
We’re excited to attend #SOCAP25, where global leaders across the impact ecosystem come together to drive bold solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. With its unique cross-sector approach, SOCAP is where meaningful connections spark collaboration and accelerate change.
UpMetrics is excited to attend Evaluation 2025, focused on transforming evaluation, we’ll explore equity, collaboration, and shared responsibility. This event brings together 2,000+ professionals from diverse backgrounds to explore best practices, new techniques, and lessons learned in evaluation.
A Path to Collective Impact
How to strengthen grantee relationships, align around shared goals, and fuel greater impact—through collaboration, not control.
How to prioritize impact measurement & management to help you stand out in the increasingly competitive impact investor landscape.
A summary of findings from an UpMetrics survey on how foundations and nonprofits are utilizing collaboration today
Learn how to put your data to work and use it to build stronger programs and inspire further action in four key areas - equity, collaboration, optimization, and storytelling.
Discover six practical ways grantmaking executives can build stronger, more equitable relationships with nonprofit grantees, and actionable suggestions for putting these ideas into practice
Learn how to rethink reporting at your organization, including clear steps on how to cultivate a learning mindset and examples from different impact organizations so you can see how this concept works in practice.
Discover tactics to help shift how your grantees think about impact data - turning impact reporting from a “have to” to a “want to” exercise centered around learning and program improvement.
This guide outlines steps to becoming a more data-driven organization. You'll learn how to gather both quantitative and qualitative data, and weave metrics and narrative together to paint a more compelling picture of your impact.
Learn our 4-Step approach to leveraging your data to make informed decisions,
build capacity, and effectively tell your story of impact.
Through the SE Michigan Impact Cohort, Ballmer Group backed a new model for funder-grantee collaboration—supporting 30+ nonprofits to build custom impact frameworks, strengthen data practices, and turn shared learning into smarter, more resilient programs.
What happens when a foundation rethinks reporting from the ground up? Kauffman empowered grantees to define their own metrics, streamlined reporting, and sparked real-time insight sharing—all while leading with humility and a learning mindset.
Discover how NBA Foundation helped MDIs unlock over $3.3B in loans—70% reaching communities of color—while simplifying compliance, strengthening storytelling, and using real-time insights to drive sector-wide advocacy.
Discover how LADF centralized data across systems, tracked equity goals for underrepresented youth in sports, and used UpMetrics to guide their COVID response—delivering targeted support and surfacing powerful community stories in real time.
Through a funded cohort of 27 grantees, Foglia equipped nonprofits with data tools, coaching, and peer learning—helping them define success, strengthen fundraising, and track collective impact across 4 different impact programs.
When the pandemic hit, Schultz launched a statewide Response Corps to tackle food insecurity and youth unemployment. With UpMetrics, they tracked 42K+ service hours and 21M+ pounds of food—using real-time dashboards to adapt across 70+ communities.
By streamlining sales and attendance reporting, NewBo City Market unlocked powerful insights for shopkeepers and funders alike—boosting reporting rates to 90% and helping secure a $1.3M federal grant to expand their impact across Cedar Rapids.
With no in-house evaluation team, SCORES used UpMetrics to slash reporting time in half, strengthen grant proposals, and uncover insights like a direct link between literacy gains and program participation—fueling strategic growth across Chicago.
Thrive used UpMetrics to define success, build real-time feedback loops, and pair quantitative metrics with community voice—empowering nonprofits across Chicago to align efforts, unlock funding, and design more equitable, data-informed programs.
By building stronger data systems and tracking outcomes for programs like transportation assistance, ICU baby turned powerful stories into quantified impact—earning major grants, reducing reporting time, and ensuring more NICU families get the support they need.
Chicago Lights is using UpMetrics to measure what matters—from program attendance to life skills growth—enabling them to adapt programming in real time, strengthen grant proposals, and help students and adults build brighter, more resilient futures.
CHAMPS is leveraging UpMetrics to track mentorship outcomes, analyze student progress, and spotlight the impact of its healing-centered programs—unlocking new funding opportunities and scaling support for young men across Chicago.
Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K) is turning everyday program data into actionable insights—tracking SEL growth, academic progress, and family engagement to strengthen trust with funders, improve programs in real time, and help kids in Visitacion Valley thrive.
With UpMetrics, Enterprise for Youth is tracking long-term outcomes, visualizing student growth, and aligning programming with employer needs—turning data into a strategic asset to fuel youth empowerment and drive their mission forward.
SJF is transforming impact reporting into a value-add—benchmarking metrics, sharing real-time dashboards with LPs, and collaborating with startups to improve job quality, track emissions, and stay ahead of ethical trends. It's data that drives growth and purpose.
An Impact Framework helps you clearly define what you do, who you serve, and why it matters so you can measure progress, share your story, and strengthen your work over time. This worksheet and template will help you get started.
Learn recommended techniques for collecting accurate and relevant data, as well as how to transform it into meaningful visual representations.
Data quality rests on the quality of your surveys - so it's incredibly important to manage them properly! This tipsheet details essential steps to build a successful and sustainable survey.
Whether you’re looking to tell the story of your impact over the past year or communicate what’s to come, there are a few crucial steps you can take to ensure that you’re hitting all the right points.
This quick tip sheet breaks down exactly how to track diversity metrics that matter—so you can measure what counts, share progress with stakeholders, and drive real change.
Being data-driven relies on your ability to access, analyze and present data when needed, as well as your tech infrastructure. Here are 7 ways to unlock your organization's potential with data.
Our IMM Suite gives mission-driven organizations the tools to turn good intentions into clear, data-backed results. This one-pager breaks down how UpMetrics helps you define goals, track progress, and share your impact story with confidence.
Our Collaborative Cohort program is a transformative grant opportunity that allows grantmakers to invest in nonprofits by providing peer learning opportunities, capacity-building training, and community-centered technology.
Define+ is a consulting service that helps organizations quickly and strategically define their impact framework so they can operationalize an effective impact measurement and management strategy.
In this candid conversation, UpMetrics VP of Community Stephen Minix unpacks why real collaboration doesn’t “just happen”—it takes trust, pre-work, and a willingness to shift power. From funder dynamics to performative philanthropy, this episode challenges the status quo and offers a bold framework for building more authentic, equitable partnerships.
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