CommunityForce vs Good Grants

CommunityForce is a web-based awards management platform for grants, scholarships, fellowships, and research funding. It supports programs from funding discovery and applications through review, awards, disbursement, compliance, reporting, and closeout. Application tools include conditional forms, eligibility screening, shared applications across opportunities, and applicant dashboards. Reviewers can collaborate using scoring and rubrics, while administrators can manage bulk awards, renewals, and post-award requirements. Phoenix searches Grants.gov, IRS Form 990 filings, and a curated list for opportunities matching an organisation’s funding profile. Its AI features can summarize applications, suggest reviewer scores, flag AI-written essays, and answer questions using live platform data. The platform provides ad hoc reports, dashboards, exports, and embedded Microsoft Power BI dashboards. Integrations include Salesforce, DocuSign, Stripe, Twilio, SendGrid, SMTP email, and Google Translate. The company says each organisation has a separate database and file storage in a private Microsoft Azure environment. It states that it is FedRAMP certified and SOC 2 Type II, and supports Section 508, FERPA, and PCI-DSS requirements. Pricing is available on request; the product pages direct prospective buyers to request a demo or speak with an expert.

Good Grants is cloud software for managing grant programs from application through award and post-award reporting. Its application tools cover forms, eligibility screening, application management, moderation, tagging and automatic scoring. Review workflows can include multiple decision stages, assigned reviewers, live results and recusal for conflicts of interest. Award and post-award work includes funding management, contract signing, grant dashboards, payment tracking and grantee reporting. The platform also lists scoring rubrics, reviewer collaboration, an applicant portal, workflow automation and analytics. It runs on the web and offers an API, webhooks, an integration marketplace, and connections including Zapier, Make, Salesforce, WordPress and Copyleaks. Intro and Premium plans allow up to 10,000 applications; Enterprise has options for more. Intro costs $3,950 a year, and Premium costs $7,900 a year. There is no free plan, but a 14-day trial is available without a credit card. The maker lists security certifications, compliance measures and customer-selectable hosting regions.