Blackbaud Grantmaking 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Blackbaud Grantmaking

3.5

(20)

Pricing

Starting at $325.00 per month

About Blackbaud Grantmaking

Blackbaud Grantmaking is a cloud-based solution designed to help organizations streamline the entire grant management lifecycle, from accepting and reviewing applications to processing payments after the final selection. Organizers can create program-specific workflows, communicate with stakeholders and assign tasks to staff members on a unified interface.

Administrators can utilize the Blackbaud Grantmaking’s personalized dashboards to gain real-time insights into budgets, balance, payment data and allocated funds. Foundations can improve evaluation processes by allowing reviewers to access assigned applications, revisit workflows and collaborate with peers and staff members on tasks. Additionally, users can sign in from any device to manage and share grants and utilize in-app guided help to handle specific areas of programs.

Other features include custom homepages, feedback management, charting, grantee history tracking, pre-screening and more. Pricing is available on monthly subscriptions and support is extended via a portal and knowledge base.

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Blackbaud Grantmaking Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $325.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$325.00

per feature, per month

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Blackbaud Grantmaking Features

Popular features found in Grant Management
Applicant Tracking
Collaboration Tools
Contract/License Management
Document Review
Due Date Tracking
Financial Reporting
Grant Discovery
Payment Tracking
Reporting & Statistics
More features of Blackbaud Grantmaking
Accounting
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Administrative Reporting
Alerts/Notifications
API
Applicant Portal
Application Management
Approval Process Control
Audit Trail
Budget Control
Budgeting/Forecasting
Categorization/Grouping
Commenting/Notes
Committee Management
Compliance Management
Configurable Workflow
Contact Management
Customizable Branding
Customizable Fields
Customizable Forms
Customizable Questions
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Deadline Management
Document Management
Donor Management
Electronic Submission
Email Reminders
Event Management
For Grantmakers
Forms Management
For Nonprofits
Fundraising Management
Grant Application Management
Grant Award Tracking
Grant Management
Impact Measurement
Interview Management
Member Database
Monitoring
Quotes/Estimates
Ratings/Reviews
Recommendations
Reminders
Reviewer Management
Role-Based Permissions
Scoring
Search/Filter
Status Tracking
Third-Party Integrations
Volunteer Management
White Label
Workflow Management

Blackbaud Grantmaking Integrations

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Blackbaud Grantmaking User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.5

Ratings Breakdown

15%

50%

20%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.4

Value for money

3.1

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

3.5

Have you used Blackbaud Grantmaking and would like to share your experience with others?

Kate T.

Verified reviewer

Farming

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Good Grant Tracking Program

Really like the quickness of the customer service team to answer any questions or solve any problems.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I really enjoy the ease of use (after some training). We can customize the applications and reports to fit our needs. I am able to run reports or queries to see detailed information on payments, outstanding reports, applications, budget items, etc. Makes my day easier.

Cons:

Some of the reports are limited, I wish there was more control over editing. I use Microsoft Access and that reporting system is the best. The reports that Blackbaud Grantmaking can make are simple and basic.

Jenny M.

Verified reviewer

Philanthropy

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Meets our needs

We've stayed with BBG because it allows us to do what we need it to do, and we've found workarounds for tasks it can't do (like forecasting grant budgets).

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Blackbaud Grantmaking meets our needs for grant tracking, online applications and document and relationship management. We like being able to build custom reports and automate reminders, and it's easy to pull up a grant history or run a tax status check.

Cons:

However, BBG is not the most user-friendly product in the marketplace. It takes a lot of clicks to get to what you need and we lost some functionality when the platform migrated to SKY View. Advanced features (like changing views and searches to look for multiple criteria) are not intuitive and require staff training. There's a robust library of pre-built reports but it can be difficult to wade through to find what you need. We also have to spend a good bit of time helping grantseekers navigate the online grant portal.

Reasons for choosing Blackbaud Grantmaking

BBG best met our needs, particularly around grant tracking/reporting and document management.

Reasons for switching to Blackbaud Grantmaking

We needed an online grant application solution.

Angela R.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2024

If you are looking for something simple and easy to use, DO NOT go with Blackbaud

I have had the displeasure of using this platform for several years now and I cannot de-recommend Blackbaud Grantmaking enough. I honestly do not know how they have managed to stay in business for so long and have gotten away with charging such high prices for such a difficult to use platform. I always dread having to use the platform for anything as I end up wasting so much time trying to complete the most simple of tasks. I have used multiple other grantmaking platforms in the past and Blackbaud is by far the worst and most expensive. There are way too many features that make anything you do more complicated than it needs to be. Nothing is cohesive or makes any sense and it is all very clunky. I keep thinking the more I use it the easier it will be to use, but that has not been the case even after several years of daily use. I am consistently dumbfounded at how unintuitive this platform is to use and I have been counting down the days until my contract ends.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The customer support is very good and knowledgeable (I need to contact them all the time because the product is so difficult to use and they usually resolve my issue fairly quickly)

Cons:

Blackbaud Grantmaking is way too clunky of a product and they make doing a very simple task extremely and unnecessarily complicated. A task that would normally take a few minutes on most other grantmaking platforms takes hours on Blackbaud because there are way too many steps involved. They have multiple websites for related tasks (admin portal, application form setup, reviewer portal, etc.) instead of having everything just housed under one website. Lastly, the interface on all of these sites is not cohesive and looks very old and not up to date with modern times.

Tania Y.

Verified reviewer

Philanthropy

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

BBGM Product Review

Overall, I like the product. There are some kinks that are still being worked out and hopefully that will come soon. Tech support gets back to you quickly. There are times that a case takes too long but overall all tech staff have been great to work with.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's one of the most robust systems out there. Many options to run reports.

Cons:

I feel the product was rolled out before it was completed. I know it's a work in progress but our spellcheck did not work for the first year and just recently was fixed. The document check in/out feature is not designed well. It's designed to check documents out of the system and back in. Too much work and room for error. I feel the pricing is high and not consistent between their clients.

Reasons for choosing Blackbaud Grantmaking

It's been our system since the early 90's

Melissa M.

Verified reviewer

Executive Office

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Blackbaud Review

Blackbaud allows me to provide my team the information they need to conduct their work.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Blackbaud offers a broad array of features that provide valuable information for managing grant awards.

Cons:

Blackbaud is highly customizable and heavily nuanced. A feature that is welcome but can be tedious.

Alan D.

Verified reviewer

Philanthropy

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Problematic without support capacity in the company

Negative. I we weren't a small shop and I did not have to do the conversion work myself I would definitely switch to another product.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The installation was relatively easy and the team helpful. It handles most functions reasonably well.

Cons:

The support has declined over the years, and especially since Gifts was acquired by Blackbaud. When endusers have difficulties, it is difficult to know exactly what they are and to communicate this to helpdesk staff. Wait times for help are often excessive. It is difficult to modify original configurations without expensive additional help. Administration is more time consuming than it should be especially for a small shop with the program staff is also the tech staff.

Ovidiu P.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

GIFTS is great for good audit trail-grants processes. Although it needs major updates.

GIFTS does what it is meant to do. It helps you manage your grant making process from first contact to closure. However, it falls short in the user friendliness area and cannot keep up with other more innovative competitors.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a secure grant making specialised tool that is bound to give you everything needed to manage grant applications from application stage to reporting and closing. It offers great and clear ways of managing grants at different stages and far surpasses what an excel spreadsheet could do in this regards. The GIFTS plugin for outlook works great and you can rely on it to make sure all emails and documents relating to your grants process are safely stored and can be retrieved at any point.

Cons:

Not very user friendly. Might have been good some years ago but now with competitors like Salesforce, GIFTS really need to catch up fast before it loses customers. We had to switch away from GIFTS as it became a burden for us to control and was full of unnecessary tools. I addition, we did not find the price agreeable for the amount of work we did with the program. The manual is a hefty 400 pages book which you cannot be bothered to read for troubleshoot. GIFTS really needs to upgrade to a newer style of troubleshooting with in-built free text searches for issues.

Gwen R.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

The good and no-so-good

I have been using the software for several years and can navigate through it but find some functions very tedious and often need support.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software manages the grants from inception to close; the support team is terrific.

Cons:

The software is not intuitive and creating reports, updating fields, editing documents, and other functions are time-consuming and difficult. While the customer support is terrific, it would be nice to not need support to complete tasks that should be intuitive.

Lindsay C.

Verified reviewer

Philanthropy

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2019

Small Foundation User

We are a small foundation, with a small staff, and the complexities of Blackbaud grantmaking end up being very time consuming for an already over extended employee. However, we have had a great experience with customer service and with our sales rep and consultant.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the dashboard features and the ease of switching back and forth on the dashboard to view different features as they pertain to our grants.

Cons:

With the reviewer portal, you cannot pick multiple grant requests to send to PDFs - you have to send them one at a time. For our board members, who log into the reviewer portal, it is time consuming for them to manage. Also, when you print the PDF of the grant request, it prints out the HTML version of the grant request, causing the PDF to feature a repeat copy of the grant request in the HTML format. This is confusing for people who use the portal, but do not use Blackbaud grantmaking regularly.

Holly S.

Verified reviewer

Philanthropy

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Review of Blackbaud Grantmaking

Overall we appreciate the software although the annual price increases are becoming difficult to overlook.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the easy use once you learn the product. Some areas are less intuitive than others but once you have it down, it becomes pretty fluid.

Cons:

There are still parts of the program that are VERY difficult to manage. For example, the need to download two versions of a file in order to make changes is annoying and doesn't work well at all.

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