Everyone manages grants. Grantary proves them.
Established platforms are strong at what they were built for: intake, workflow, review. They manage the stages. Grantary connects them, on a record both sides work in and an auditor can check.
Seven things only a shared record can do.
Each of these depends on funder and recipient working in the same record. A one-sided tool cannot add them later.
| Capability | Grantary | Application portal tools | Assessment and review platforms | Grants management suites | Enterprise philanthropy CRM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The application becomes the live grant record | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| One shared record worked by funder and recipient | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Independent verification without an account | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| No application scored or ranked by AI | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Organisation record reused across funders | Yes | No | No | Partial | Partial |
| 360Giving file produced from the record | Yes | No | No | Partial | No |
| Daily checks against all four UK registers | Yes | No | No | Partial | No |
All four kinds of tool take applications, score them and track payments. So does Grantary. Those are the table stakes, and they are not the reason to move.
Yes: available. Partial: configuration-dependent or partial. No: no published equivalent. Reflects typical capabilities observed across these categories of grant management tools as of July 2026, based on public documentation. Individual products vary. Please verify directly with any specific vendor.
What each kind of tool is good at, and where it stops.
Application portal tools
Good at. Taking applications through a form and a link.
Where it stops. The application stays a form. Nothing carries into the grant that follows.
Assessment and review platforms
Good at. Scoring and panel workflow, often very well.
Where it stops. Assessment ends at the decision. Delivery, spend and evidence live somewhere else.
Grants management suites
Good at. The funder's own record of awards, payments and reports.
Where it stops. One-sided. The recipient sends things in, and nothing is verifiable from outside.
Enterprise philanthropy CRM
Good at. Relationships, pipelines and portfolio reporting at scale.
Where it stops. Built for the funder's desk, priced for the enterprise, and closed to the auditor.
What moves across when you switch.
You do not start from nothing. Existing grants are imported with their dates, conditions and payment schedules, and the history begins on import day, marked as such.
Talk to us about your current setup →Illustrative import. Every figure above is fictional.
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