Candid’s eReporting Program enables grantmakers to quickly and easily share grants data with the field, making the data searchable across several platforms and research projects. Foundant clients who participate in the program will be provided with a premium version of Candid’s newest mapping platform, Foundation Maps, which reflects your own foundation's grantmaking activity in a highly interactive tool, accessible directly from your Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager (GLM) site. An example map is available on Candid's Foundation Maps site.
These complimentary maps benefit both internal and external stakeholders and can be used by staff, included in presentations to the board, or posted on a foundation's intranet or public web site. Currently, over 100 Foundant clients are eReporting to Candid.
To begin participating, refer to Get Started with an eReport Map.
Benefits of Participation
Benefits of participating in Candid's eReporting program include the following:
- Share info widely in an efficient manner and without any duplicated efforts.
- Use the data to proactively think about what your grant data says about you as a grantmaker.
- The sector as a whole needs better quality and more timely info than what is publicly being shared on 990s. Grantmakers need to be both consumers and participants in the “Virtuous Circle of Data.” Everyone will benefit from this “Virtuous Circle” as more and more organizations contribute to the eReporting program.
- eReporting gives your foundation more control over how your grants are represented to others and, more broadly, to the field.
Details on Data
Your data will be centralized by Candid and help to fuel tools such as:
- Research studies on giving trends.
- Licensed data sets available for both your foundation and the sector.
- Special projects like custom web portals and interactive mapping tools.
- Online tools such as Foundation Directory Online which allows grantmakers to be more informed about their grantees, or Foundation Insights which is a tool that provides a snapshot of givers’ statistics.
eReport Map Details
The eReport map provided by Candid provides a visual of how your grant funding was dispersed geographically. This tool becomes available to administrators and board members on your GLM site as an eReport Map, accessible through the upper navigation bar. You will also receive a link to the interactive map which can be used in communications or added to your foundation's website.
Multiple features are available on an eReport map.
- The interactive map allows for viewing different data points, such as the location of where funds were provided, where checks were sent, and where programs were provided.
- Hovering the cursor over a specific state reveals cumulative funding by county, region, city, and more.
- View details on a specific grant as provided through your foundation's eReporting.
- To best align with Candid's data processing, reference Candid's Philanthropy Classification System.