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Impact Reporting Solutions for Grantmakers

You invest in change — but gathering and making sense of impact data isn’t always simple. UpMetrics helps funders turn messy impact reporting workflows into real-time insights and clear, credible stories that strengthen decisions, relationships, and community impact.

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Why Grantmakers Choose UpMetrics

As philanthropy shifts toward transparency, equity, and learning, funders need tools that make impact reporting easier and insights clearer — without adding burden to grantees. 
Clear, Credible Reporting for Boards & Stakeholders
One Integrated & Unified View of Impact Data
Better Decision-Making, Powered by Data
Less Burden, More Alignment with Grantees
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How UpMetrics Supports Grantmakers

Our platform, services, and capacity-building programs work together to strengthen learning, alignment, and impact reporting across your organization and grantee network.

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The UpMetrics Platform

A modern, funder-friendly tool built to streamline data collection, impact analysis, and reporting - delivering the insights you need to drive your mission forward.

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Services

Our services provide additional capacity and subject matter expertise to help you operationalize your impact strategy and get more from your data.

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Capacity Building Cohorts

A funder-sponsored program that gives grantees the tools and training to build operational resilience through data and storytelling skills.

The UpMetrics Platform

Data-driven tools that make impact reporting clearer, faster, and more collaborative across your entire grantmaking portfolio.

Strengthen alignment across your team and grantees through a shared understanding of impact.

  • Impact Framework Builder: Define impact outcomes and indicators that streamline internal alignment and cross-grantee reporting.
  • Funder-Friendly Templates: Use pre-built frameworks aligned to common philanthropic focus areas.
  • Impact Reporting Consistency: Give grantees clarity on what to measure and why — reducing reporting burden and improving data quality.
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Collect consistent, comparable impact data without chasing spreadsheets.

  • Simple Data Requests: Send mobile-friendly forms that nonprofits can complete quickly; data flows directly into dashboards.
  • Integrations & Imports: Pull in data from GMS tools, spreadsheets, Google Sheets, or CSVs.

  • Qualitative Data Capture: Gather stories, photos, testimonials, and context that bring impact to life.

  • Portfolio Reporting Management Tools: Track submissions, manage reporting deadlines, and maintain grantee profiles in one place.

Understand impact across programs, organizations, and communities with real-time clarity.

  • Advanced Analytics: Slice, filter, segment, and drill-down into your data to reveal meaningful patterns and insights, helping you make faster, evidence-based decisions.
  • Program Comparisons & Benchmarking: Explore and benchmark results across programs, geographies, demographics, and time periods.
  • Chart-First Reporting Model: Build charts once and reuse them across multiple dashboards, saving time, ensuring consistency, and keeping reporting aligned across your foundation.
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Use insights to drive strategy, storytelling, and shared learning.

  • Real-Time Insights: Dashboards update automatically as new data comes in, helping your team make informed, timely decisions.
  • Board-Ready Dashboards: Share clean, presentation-ready dashboards with boards, leadership, and partners to communicate impact clearly and confidently.
  • Context-Rich Impact Storytelling: Blend outcomes with stories, quotes, and visuals to turn raw data into deeper, more resonant narratives.
  • External Sharing & Reporting Tools: Easily share your impact through public dashboards, website embeds, or export-ready charts — no manual formatting required.

Data Culture Maturity Assessment for Grantmakers

A quick, research-informed self-assessment that offers an inside look at how data is collected, shared, and used across your organization.

By taking the assessment, you’ll receive:

  • A snapshot of your organization’s current data culture maturity level

  • An understanding of your strengths and gaps across five functional areas

  • Tailored recommendations for improvement you can put to work right away

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Services

Expert partnership to increase capacity, strengthen systems, and scale impact.

Whether you need one-time project support or an ongoing partner, UpMetrics’ services team handles the heavy lifting of data collection, management, and reporting - so you can stay focused on driving change.

  • Systems Integration & Data Migration
  • Data Collection & Transformation
  • Impact Reporting Strategy, Implementation & Management
  • Impact Dashboard Design & Maintenance
  • Strategic Advisory & Impact Framework Support
  • Platform Training & Education
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Capacity Building Cohorts

Helping nonprofits grow smarter, stronger, and more resilient.

UpMetrics’ Cohorts are transformative, funder-sponsored grant programs that empower nonprofits with the data skills, connections, and confidence they need to thrive.

Through a blend of hands-on training and support, peer learning sessions, and access to the UpMetrics platform, Cohorts help grantees build new capabilities, strengthen their effectiveness, and improve long-term stability — while helping funders deepen relationships and resilience across their grantee community.

Ready to simplify reporting and amplify your impact?


Let’s build a more data-informed, community-centered future — together.

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