Competitor Battlecard
How We Win
Company Overview
● Foundant founded 2006
● Employees: 213
● HQ: Bozeman, Montana!
Products
● Grant Lifecycle Manager - Main
Competition
● CommunitySuite - fund accounting
tool for Community Foundations
● Scholarship Lifecycle Manager (same
as GLM, re-tooled for scholarships)
For nonprofits (we don’t compete here)
● NonprofitCore - CRM for accounting +
fundraising for non profits - 2022
● GrantHub - grant-seeker tool
Pricing
● Anecdotally, prices lower than ours.
Potential to change with their new
product release(s)
Their Strengths
● More robust security + compliance
● Unique in providing “Fund Accounting,”
○ GDPR, HIPAA, VPAT (Accessibility)
critical to most Community Foundations
● We are always innovating - Foundant moves slowly
● Hard to displace their strong hold on
● Can launch or “go-live” in days
community foundations
● Can work alongside Foundant and other GMS for
● Their collaboration tools between local
contests, new funds/programs, video-based
community foundations
applications, faster program launches
● A+ customer service - customers love
● Our clean, simple applicant experience
Foundant + they support applicants
● We support robust review processes
● Their Community Suite + GLM are
● Users can “go live” and edit projects autonomously
well-integrated
Their Weaknesses Trap questions
● No Funds Distribution
● Very limited # of review stages ● How are you looking to grow your
● User interface (dashboard esp.) requires steep programs with a SaaS solution? (Their
learning curve + extensive onboarding lack of innovation)
● Do you anticipate needing to pivot and
● Applicant must create unique user login for each
offer new grants quickly? (Our speed to
organization they apply to
● No fees or payment collection launch advantage)
● Do you prefer to launch and manage your
● No “self-service” to go-live, need Foundant‘s team
programs independently?
to accomplish this
● Tailored to community foundations, difficult for
other types of grantmakers to see themselves in it
 Security and Submittable Foundant
accessibility Pricing Customer Support & Onboarding
SSO ✔ X Per the Tech Impact 2020 report:
• Pricing for the system based on complexity of ● Online support: Foundant Support Hub
Lists two-factor
workflow needs ● Customer community portal: Compass
authentication
• Basic package includes up to two grant ● Fantastic customer support and
programs in the system engagement with customers.
GDPR certified ✔ ?
No mention of updated
GDPR compliance Pricing changed across all products with
NonprofitCore’s release
• Pricing is based on customer’s annual operating
SOC 2 Type 2 ✔ ✔ budget.
certified This is newer, updated • “This simplified pricing provides an
since 2021 organization’s entire team with unlimited access
to the full suite of features, as well as extensive
learning resources and responsive support.”
HIPAA compliant ✔ X

FERPA compliant ✔ X Notable Customers / Other

Attainted VPAT ✔ X ● United Way customers nationwide

Check out our 2021 blog post for more info:
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