For grant-making foundations
Your site is where applicants decide whether to apply and peers decide whether you are serious.
An applicant reads your criteria and decides whether a month of work is worth it. A grantee looks for how you report, and what you expect back. A trustee checks what the foundation says it funds against what it does. A peer funder looks for your grants before co-funding. A journalist looks for where the money went. An AI model reads it when someone asks who funds work like theirs.
Most of them never contact you. The ones who do were not sure.
What most foundation sites give them
- Eligibility criteria written for the board, not for the applicant, so the wrong people apply and the right ones do not.
- A “how to apply” page that links to a grants portal with a different login, a different brand and no way back.
- No list of past grants, or a PDF annual review that no search engine or AI model can read.
- Open and closed funding rounds shown the same way, with no dates.
- Trustees, investment approach and accounts missing, or two clicks deep in a page nobody updates.
- A news page whose last entry is the previous strategy.
Each of these costs you time. Ineligible applications are read by your team. Questions the site should have answered arrive by email. Good organisations you wanted to fund never apply.
What I build
- Funding pages written for the applicant: who you fund, who you do not, how much, when, and what a strong application looks like. Each round has its own page, open or closed, with dates.
- A grants database where every grant has its own page: grantee, amount, year, purpose, outcome. Structured so an AI model can cite it and a peer funder can search it.
- A clear path into your grants portal and back out of it, so applicants never feel they have left you.
- Governance pages in the place a trustee, a regulator or a journalist looks: trustees, staff, investment and ethical policy, accounts, conflict of interest, complaints.
- A news and insight section your programme staff publish to without a developer.
- All accounts, domains and code in your foundation’s name from day one.
How it works
The same two steps as every engagement. A Blueprint Audit reads the site the way each of those six readers does and scores ten areas. Then a fixed proposal, or a recommendation against one. Details on the process page.
For a foundation the audit adds an applicant journey review: from the first search to a submitted application, every point where an eligible organisation gives up. It also checks what your published grants data says and what an AI model currently tells someone who asks whether you would fund them.
For your grantees
Many foundations fund their grantees' development alongside the grant, often called funding plus. If yours does, a Blueprint Audit can be one of the things that budget pays for. The grantee commissions it and is my client: the agreement, the access to their site and the report are theirs. Whether you see the report is their decision.
Questions
The portal handles applications. The website decides who starts one. Most of the applications you do not want, and most of the ones you never receive, are decided before anyone logs in.
Yes. Billing in USD, a contract under English law, and the jurisdiction and insurance position confirmed in writing before anything starts. The audit covers your 990-PF disclosures and your Candid profile instead of the Charity Commission register.
If the grantee wants one. You fund it, through the grant or a development budget. The grantee commissions it and is my client, so the agreement is between the two of us. The report is theirs, and whether you see it is their decision.
Two clicks. Three things.
Send the address of your website. Within two working days you get a short email naming the three things a funder would hold against it, including what AI assistants like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews currently say about you. No report, no call, no follow-up unless you ask.
Received. Your three things arrive within two working days.
That did not send. Email hello@socialectric.com with your website address and I will reply from there.
If your site is the first thing an applicant, a trustee or a peer funder reads about you, a Blueprint Audit reads it the way each of them does and tells you in writing what they will find.