UpMetrics for Grantmakers

Optimize the Effectiveness of Funding

Empower smarter funding decisions through efficient data collection, enhanced impact reporting, and collaborative insights.
Impact Measurement

Measure your Impact

Gather and visualize impact data to understand and improve the outcomes being driven by your grantmaking activities.

Data Optimization

Simplify Reporting

Easily report to your board and stakeholders with dashboards that update in real-time as new data is collected.

Empower Grantees

Empower Grantees

Shift funder-grantee power dynamics towards equity and collaborative learning, and make data actionable for grantees.

How Grantmakers Use UpMetrics

Grantmaking organizations play a critical role in supporting the hard work of the charitable and not-for-profit sector. Modern grantmakers are taking advantage of UpMetrics to improve collaboration with grantees and help them simplify reporting, measure and maximize the outcomes driven by their funding, and to identify and connect with mission-aligned nonprofits.

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Define your Impact Goals in an Impact Framework
Define your goals and approach to impact in a framework that's clear, structured, and measurable.
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Simplify Data Collection and Management
Deploy easy to use surveys or import data from other systems to gather all relevant information in one centralized tool. Simplify data collection for grantees to streamline their reporting processes.
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Measure & Learn from Impact Data
Visualize impact data to track progress over time and uncover insights to inform and optimize your work going forward.
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Share your Story & Find New Funding Opportunities

Share your story of impact with the world, save time reporting to your board, and identify funding or growth opportunities with mission-aligned organizations.

Starter Plan: Access the Essentials for Free

UpMetrics' Starter Plan gives you free, unlimited access to foundational features of our platform, perfect for getting started.

These include our impact framework builder, themed framework templates, and the ability to create and publish a public profile page.

Why create an Impact Framework?

An impact framework establishes a clear strategy for measuring outcomes, aligning grants with your mission, and demonstrating impact to stakeholders with transparency.

How we Partner with Grantmakers

Capacity-Building Cohorts

Our cohort model is an innovative way for grantmakers to support nonprofit grantees by providing sponsored access to the UpMetrics platform alongside hands-on training on impact measurement and management best practices.

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Direct Partnership

By partnering with us directly, your UpMetrics subscription empowers your organization to define an impact framework, then collect, analyze, and report the impact achieved across your grantee portfolio.

IMM Suite Plans for Impact Funders

Get started for free, or subscribe to one of our full IMM Suite plans to unlock the full Define, Collect, Analyze and Leverage functionality within UpMetrics.

We offer a range of product plans designed to meet the distinct needs of grantmakers, regardless of their size. Whether you're a small community foundation or a large-scale organization, UpMetrics makes it easy to define and report on impact and connect with mission-aligned opportunities.

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Case Study

Foglia Family Foundation is Empowering Nonprofits with Impact Measurement Skills to Drive Sustainable Change

"The opportunity to make an immediate impact on our grantees by providing them with impact measurement tools, while also helping them to become more financially sustainable in the long run, was very exciting to our team. Working with UpMetrics has made the process of becoming data-driven seamless."

- Ann Schirk, Foundation Administrator at the Foglia Family Foundation

Foglia Family Foundation Case Study
Case Study

How the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Uses a Learning Mindset to Support Grantees in Measuring Impact

"We want to be able to know that we are making an impact. And we want to be learning with grantees and the community. This WHY has helped to keep everyone aligned and on track."

- Jessica Mindnich, Senior Director at Kauffman Foundation

People who do good work
deserve great tools.

UpMetrics empowers grantmaking organizations around the world to easily measure and maximize their impact.

Are you ready to get started?

Learning Resources

Visit our Resources Page to learn how to keep your data strategies on track,
discover the latest trends in impact measurement, and to gain inspiration from your peers.
Foundation Impact
4 Key Steps to Start Analyzing Your Foundation’s Impact
Schultz
A Lesson in Responsive Grantmaking: Schultz Family Foundation
Purposeful Collaboration
Purposeful Collaboration is The Key to Drive Results

Ready to Accelerate your Impact?

Sign up for our free Starter Plan to access our Define functionality and begin creating an Impact Framework for your organization.