Foundations & Funders
Foundations and funders carry a particular responsibility, which is to put resources where they will do the most good and then to be able to show that they did. A great deal of that comes down to information: seeing clearly, working efficiently, and reporting honestly. We build the digital tools that help across the whole of that work.
Foundations are rarely just one kind of organisation. You may hold and steward an endowment, run your own programmes and campaigns, publish research and advocacy, convene and influence, maintain a public presence that has to do real work, and, in many cases, make grants to others. The digital tools that support all of that are what we build, shaped around how your particular foundation actually operates rather than around a template.
What we help with
We help with your public presence, building websites that communicate what you stand for and the change you are working towards, clearly enough to reach the people who matter to you, whether those are grantees, partners, policymakers or the public. We help with your programmes and campaigns, building the tools that run the work you deliver directly, not only the funding you pass to others. We help with impact and reporting, pulling together what your work achieves into a picture you can actually see and report to your board and stakeholders with credibility. And we help with transparency, making information about your funding, your programmes and your results open and legible to the people who have a right to understand them.
Where your work does include grant-making, we can build the systems behind it too, designed around your own process rather than a generic one imposed from outside, and mindful that the burden you place on applicants is itself part of your impact. It is one of the things we do for funders rather than the whole of what we do, and like everything else we build, it is shaped to fit you rather than reused from somebody else.
Built for the long view
Funders think in years and decades, and your tools ought to do the same, so we build for longevity and support what we build, so that the systems holding your records and your reporting do not quietly degrade over time. When you would rather own and run them yourself, our way of working helps you get there, and where data work and responsible AI can help make sense of large volumes of information, we use them carefully and always in a way you can explain to a board.
Let's talk
If you are a foundation or funder with a digital problem, whether that is your public presence, your programmes, your impact reporting, your transparency or the systems behind your funding, tell us about it.