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Impact Reporting Solutions for Nonprofits

Centralize your impact data, streamline funder reporting, use insights to drive program improvement, and build the credibility that turns first-time grants into long-term partnerships. 

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Why Nonprofits Choose UpMetrics

Most nonprofits aren't short on mission, they're short on infrastructure. UpMetrics gives your team a single place to define what you measure, track it consistently, understand what the data is telling you, and share it with the audiences who need to see it.

One System Instead of Five Disconnected Ones
Improve Programs Through Data-Driven Decisions
Win Grants with Evidence, Not Just Enthusiasm
Spend Less Time Delivering Clear, Credible Reporting
Give your Board Real Numbers, Not Just Narratives
Robust Data Security You Can Count On

How UpMetrics Supports Nonprofits

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The UpMetrics Platform

A modern impact reporting tool that streamlines data collection, analysis, and reporting, giving you a single source of truth for clear, credible, and actionable impact data.

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Capacity Building Cohorts

A funder-sponsored program that builds nonprofit capacity and operational resilience by providing grantees with platform access, peer learning, expert coaching, and shared data infrastructure.

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Services

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

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Capacity Building Advocacy Toolkit

Nonprofits often shy away from asking for capacity building support - training, data systems, staff development - because it feels like “overhead,” but capacity is what helps your programs scale, adapt, and thrive.

This toolkit gives you everything you need to make the ask to funders, including:

  • Talking Points for Funder Conversations → Reframe capacity-focused funding as impact, not overhead
  • Email + Proposal Templates → Copy-and-paste language to use right away
  • Funder FAQ Guide → Objections and ready-to-go responses
  • Quick Checklist → Make sure your request is funder-ready
THE UPMETRICS PLATFORM

Impact reporting, improvement, and storytelling tools - together in one platform.

UpMetrics offers an integrated platform that gets information where it needs to be - so you can save time on data collection and impact reporting, make the most informed decisions for your programs, and present a confident, data-backed impact story to funders.

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Centralized Data Collection & Management

Integrations & Imports: Pull in data from external tools and systems to eliminate manual work and centralize everything in one place.

Qualitative Data Capture: Capture stories, photos, and other contextual elements that help bring your impact to life, and transform them into measurable datapoints.

Simplified Reporting

  • Simplify Collaboration: Work together with program staff inside the platform so data flows from the people who generate it to the people who report on it.
  • Save Time on Reporting: Reuse past data across grant cycles and funder formats so each reporting cycle gets faster, not slower.
  • Send Smart, Relevant Data Requests: Build question sets with conditional logic so report recipients only see relevant metrics (less burden for them, cleaner data for you).
  • Submission Tracking & Version Control: Track exactly who's submitted, who needs follow-up, and which report versions were shared with who.

Analytics & Program Improvement

  • Advanced Visualizations: Leverage a wide range of visualization options to dynamically explore and present data.
  • Multi-Level Intelligence: Analyze impact within individual programs or roll up to track organization-level performance, enabling you to see granular details and the big picture.
  • Exploratory Filtering & Drill-Down: Filter and cross-filter your data to surface what's working across programs, sites, and population groups.
  • Benchmarking Tools: Add benchmarking targets to track progress against your own goals or peer averages.
  • Real-Time Insights: Dashboards update automatically as new data is submitted, helping you track performance, make decisions, and prepare for meetings on demand.

Impact Storytelling

  • Interactive Dashboards: Build interactive, presentation-ready dashboards that can be customized for different audiences.
  • Context-Rich Storytelling: Combine impact metrics with deal performance, company narratives, and visuals to create dashboards that tell the full story.
  • Build Once, Reuse Everywhere: Create and reuse charts across multiple dashboards. When data updates, it automatically updates everywhere the chart is used - saving time, ensuring consistency, and keeping reporting aligned across your organization.

Secure Sharing and Permissions

  • Role and User-Based Permissions: Set dashboard and data permissions by role or user so teammates can self-serve the information they need while maintaining data security.
  • Public Dashboard Links: Generate public URLs for dashboards to easily share impact data with external stakeholders - without providing access to sensitive underlying data.
  • Simplified Sharing via Embed & Export: Embed live charts in websites and online portals, or export them for presentations without manual reformatting.
  • SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant: UpMetrics provides enterprise-grade data security you can trust. We are SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, ensuring your sensitive portfolio and impact data is protected by independently audited security standards.

Capacity Building Cohorts

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, peer learning sessions, and access to the UpMetrics platform, grantees build new skills, strengthen operational effectiveness, and improve long-term stability.

At the same time, funders can simplify reporting and track real-time impact while building deeper relationships with grantees.

Services

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.

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Service Categories:

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

Client Testimonials

NewBo City Market

"At the start it sounded like so much work, but now we can't envision our lives without it.

As the primary grant writer, my life has gotten so much easier. After working with UpMetrics, we got some of our first substantial federal grants - including a $1.3M grant from the US government this year - because these are the kinds of grants that require real data."

- Sarah Blais, Senior Director of Market Operations

America SCORES Chicago

"Even as a small organization without an evaluation staff person, UpMetrics has cut our reporting time in at least half, if not more. It has also cut down on our need to contract external evaluators as the platform now does the more advanced analysis for us."

- Jess Mater, Director of Programs and Operations

ICU Baby

"I think of my UpMetrics system as Oz where I can log in and immediately see feedback on the impact we're having. I am going to be able to do so much more for our community with access to these numbers. The dashboards and ease of accessibility to the data is so impressive."

- Beth Simon, CEO

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Center for Success Network

“One of the most powerful aspects of the UpMetrics cohort is being in person with our colleagues in the work.

It’s one thing to see the data visualized on a screen and understand how we’re collecting and analyzing it - but it’s another to bring that data to life by talking with peers about what it means, how it interacts with their work, and what it reveals about our communities.”

- Andrea Meyer, Executive Director

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Resources for Nonprofits

Ready to learn more? Check out the following resources for more information on how UpMetrics serves mission-driven organizations, or visit our Resources Page for more tips, trends, and inspiration.
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Building Resilience Through Collaboration: A Path to Collective Impact

This free guide explores how leading foundations are reimagining their support models by investing in trust, peer learning, and data-informed collaboration.
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Impact Framework Library

Access 10+ high-quality Impact Framework examples from UpMetrics clients and quick-start guidance for creating your own Impact Framework.
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Data Collection & Visualization: Tips & Tricks

Download our tip sheet to learn recommended techniques for collecting data and using it to generate meaningful visual representations. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Still have questions? Connect with our team and we'd be happy to answer them for you.

What is UpMetrics?

UpMetrics is a software and services provider dedicated to helping the social sector harness data for good.

Currently, our products include:

How does UpMetrics help us report to our board and funders?

UpMetrics lets you build presentation-ready dashboards that combine impact metrics, grantee narratives, and visuals into a single, coherent story. You can share these via secure links or embed them in reports without giving board members or funders access to underlying data. Dashboards update automatically as new grantee data comes in, so you're always working from current numbers rather than manually compiling a snapshot before every board meeting.

We already have tools for impact measurement and reporting. Why would we need UpMetrics?

Most organizations do. The problem isn't not having tools - it's that most teams have too many tools that don't talk to each other.

If you have strategy frameworks outlined in documents, survey tools for data collection, analysis across multiple spreadsheets, and a separate tool for sharing results, you aren’t working efficiently, and you’re likely losing data accuracy in the process. Instead of stitching all of that together, UpMetrics gives you one platform to define what you measure, collect structured data, analyze results in real time, and share findings with stakeholders. That way, data flows from one stage to the next without anyone moving it manually.

How is UpMetrics different from other impact reporting platforms?

Most impact reporting platforms only perform to satisfy requirements, but UpMetrics goes a step further by providing insights and opportunities for connection. In particular, these features make UpMetrics stand out from other platforms:

  • End-to-end workflow: Our platform covers the full cycle - from defining key impact indicators (KIIs) to collecting data, analyzing results, and sharing findings with stakeholders. Since everything is connected on a single platform, data flows seamlessly and accurately.
  • Built for both sides of the funding relationship: Funders use UpMetrics to collect and analyze portfolio-wide impact data, while the organizations that report to them use it to manage their own impact data and reduce reporting burden across multiple funders.
  • Framework-agnostic: The platform adapts to your measurement strategy, not the other way around. You can bring your own indicators, map to IRIS+, SDGs, or even build a hybrid.
  • Software and services together: UpMetrics pairs our software with add-on professional services, managed services, and implementation support to help you get the most out of our tools.
  • Capacity building cohorts: Our unique cohort programs help teams build internal data and impact measurement skills alongside a peer community.
  • Built specifically for the social sector: Our data model, workflows, and outputs are designed for how nonprofits, foundations, and impact investors actually work, not adapted from a generic BI or CRM tool.
How much does UpMetrics cost?

The cost of our impact reporting platform can vary based on platform tiers and accompanying services. 

Please visit our Nonprofit Pricing page for more details.

A funder asked me to report to them via UpMetrics. Do I have to pay for that?

No. If a funder asks you to submit a report to them via UpMetrics and you do not have a paid UpMetrics account, you will be issued a free, basic license that only provides access to a limited set of features focused on completing incoming reports.

What tools does UpMetrics integrate with?

UpMetrics connects with the tools most impact organizations already rely on, including Google Sheets, CSV exports, Survey Monkey, and common grant management systems, so you can centralize existing data without rebuilding your workflows from scratch.

For data that doesn't live in a connected system, our Services team can build custom integrations via API development and/or RPA development.

The goal is a single source of truth that pulls from wherever your data already lives, not a replacement for every tool in your stack.

How long does it take to implement UpMetrics?

UpMetrics’ implementation period depends on your organization’s data complexity, your programs and grantees, and the scope of your services. Standard onboarding is designed to get organizations live without a long IT project, so it usually takes about four to six weeks.

 

We're just getting started with impact measurement and reporting. Is UpMetrics too advanced for us?

UpMetrics is designed for organizations at every stage of their impact measurement and reporting journey, including those just getting started. Many of our customers came to UpMetrics with a messy current state and used the platform to build their measurement infrastructure from the ground up.

Starting from scratch isn't a barrier - it's exactly the use case the platform is designed for.

How is my data protected?

UpMetrics is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, which means our security practices have been independently audited, not just self-reported. All data is hosted on AWS servers in the United States, access is controlled by role-based permissions, and your data is never sold or shared with third parties.