Impact Measurement and Management for Grantmakers

Measure, manage, and report on the impact of your grantmaking activities using UpMetrics’ powerful impact measurement tools.

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How well do you understand the outcomes of your organization’s grantmaking activities? 

Say goodbye to relying on disorganized spreadsheets for impact insights—our impact measurement and management (IMM) software empowers you to gather and visualize impact data, report real-time updates to your stakeholders, and more easily collaborate with grantees. 

How Grantmakers Use UpMetrics

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Impact Management

Collect, organize, and visualize impact metrics across grantmaking activities to enable data-driven decision-making and efficient resource allocation.

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Impact Reporting

Improve reporting with dynamic, accessible dashboards consistently updated with real-time data and customized key performance indicators (KPIs). 

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Equity & Collaborative Learning

Shift funder-grantee power dynamics toward equity by involving grantees in impact measurement through data sharing.

How UpMetrics Works

Our impact measurement tool is built on our IMM methodology, DeCAL (Define, Collect, Analyze, and Leverage). This methodology provides a step-by-step process for collecting and analyzing the data you need to evaluate and transparently report the impact of grantmaking activities. 

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Establish Your IMM Strategy in an Impact Framework

Define clear impact objectives and the impact investment metrics you'll use to evaluate progress in a clear, structured, and measurable framework.

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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 place and simplify reporting. Simplify data collection for grantees to streamline their reporting processes.
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Measure Your Impact & Learn From Impact Data

Visualize impact data to track progress over time and uncover insights that will inform and optimize your grantmaking work going forward.
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Share Your Story & Find New Funding Opportunities

Share your impact story with the world, save time reporting to your stakeholders, 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 our grantmaker impact measurement platform’s foundational features, perfect for getting started.

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

IMM Suite Plans for Impact Funders

Subscribe to one of our IMM Suite plans to unlock the full DeCAL process 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 more mission-aligned grantmaking opportunities.

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How UpMetrics Partners 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 and then collect, analyze, and report the impact achieved across your grantee portfolio.

Case Study: How Foglia Family Foundation is Empowering Nonprofits to Use 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

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Using impact management software
can help you do more good.

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

Ready to get started? Begin by seeing our tools in action. 

Resources for Grantmakers

Foundation Impact

4 Key Steps to Start Analyzing Your Foundation’s Impact

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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.