GrantWatch announced the launch of GrantWatch Profiles, a new public organization profile platform that allows organizations across the funding ecosystem to verify, claim, and manage their Official GrantWatch Profile.
Organizations can verify and claim an Official GrantWatch Profile at no cost. In most cases, ownership can be verified using an official organization email address and other qualifying information. Once verified, organizations can manage their public profile, combining organization-managed information with selected publicly available records.
The launch expands GrantWatch from a grant discovery platform into a more comprehensive Grant Lifecycle Platform, helping organizations manage visibility, research, grant prospecting, track grants and funding opportunities, proposal development, collaboration, post-award activities, and a more polished workflow for managing nonprofit grant portfolios.
Official Public GrantWatch Profiles
GrantWatch Profiles provide organizations with an official public presence within the GrantWatch Grant Lifecycle Platform.
“Organizations have always worked hard to tell their stories. GrantWatch Profiles give them a way to manage how that story is presented throughout the GrantWatch ecosystem while helping grant seekers and funders access more complete, accurate information,” Libby Hikind, Founder and CEO of GrantWatch, said.
Authorized representatives can claim and manage organization information including their logo, mission, organization overview, website, geographic focus, programs and services, communities served, leadership, current projects, funding needs, organization goals, grants received, major funders, success stories, strategic priorities, partnerships, annual reports, outcomes and impact, downloadable documents, and additional organization-managed information.
Each public profile combines organization-managed information with selected publicly available organizational records, giving grant seekers, funders, donors, volunteers, researchers, and community partners a more complete picture of an organization’s work. More complete profiles earn higher Visibility Tier badges.
Foundations, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, educational institutions, municipalities, tribal governments, healthcare organizations, libraries, museums, faith-based organizations, businesses, and other grant makers and grant recipients can now take an active role in how they are represented on GrantWatch by claiming their profile, sharing more about their mission, programs, funding priorities, impact, and services, and increasing their visibility across the GrantWatch funding ecosystem.
GrantWatch Visibility Tiers are a natural evolution of the GrantWatch ecosystem, giving organizations a new way to participate in the platform by claiming and enriching their profiles. Richer organizational profiles help grant seekers, funders, donors, volunteers, researchers, and potential partners make more informed decisions while strengthening connections throughout the funding community.
Organizations that verify and claim their profiles earn Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum Visibility Tier badges, recognizing the depth of information available on their GrantWatch profile.
Complete profiles help grant seekers better understand funding priorities, eligibility requirements, geographic focus, organizational programs, and available resources before investing valuable time in an application. Richer profiles also help foundations, government agencies, corporate giving programs, and other funders discover organizations whose missions and programs align with their funding priorities.
As organizations face growing competition for funding and increasing expectations for visibility and accountability, maintaining a complete, accurate, and verifiable public profile has become an important part of fundraising, partnership development, organizational credibility, and stakeholder engagement.
“Every organization deserves an official public presence within the funding ecosystem,” said Libby Hikind, Founder and CEO of GrantWatch. “For years, organizations have had limited control over how they appear across funding databases and online directories. GrantWatch Profiles give organizations ownership of their public story while helping funders and grant seekers access accurate, current information. Visibility Tiers encourage organizations to build richer profiles that increase visibility, strengthen credibility, and help create more meaningful connections across the funding ecosystem.”
Verify & Claim Your Official GrantWatch Profile for Free
Organizations can verify and claim an Official GrantWatch Profile at no cost. In most cases, ownership can be confirmed using an official organization email address and other qualifying information. Once verified, organizations can manage their public profile.
Every badge links directly to the organization’s official GrantWatch Profile, allowing visitors to verify its authenticity and view the organization’s latest public information.
Bronze Visibility Tier
Organizations earn the Bronze Visibility Tier by claiming and verifying their profile while adding essential organization information, including their logo, mission, website, organization overview, geographic focus, programs and services, communities served, and, where applicable, an IRS Form 990 or Form 990-PF.
Silver Visibility Tier
Silver recognizes organizations that expand their profile with detailed programs, current projects, funding needs, organization goals, leadership information, and additional organization details.
Gold Visibility Tier
Gold recognizes organizations that demonstrate impact by adding grants received, major funders, success stories, strategic priorities, partnerships, annual reports, and other information that helps visitors better understand the organization.
Platinum Visibility Tier
Platinum recognizes organizations that complete their organization profile by providing outcomes and impact, organization achievements, public documents, and, for grant funders, additional information such as funding restrictions. For grant seekers, sustainability and dissemination practices, and internal checks and balances designed to help prevent fraud.
Launch Celebration
To celebrate the launch of GrantWatch Visibility Tiers, organizations that verify and claim their profiles in 2026 will receive up to 1 million complimentary GrantWatch Intelligence tokens based on the visibility tier they achieve. The complimentary tokens may be used with GrantWatch Intelligence for conversational research across:
- Human Verified Grants
- Foundation Directory
- Grant Recipient Search
- Verified IRS 990 data
GrantWatch Intelligence is GrantWatch’s conversational grant research platform. Powered by Human Verified Grants, it enables organizations to identify highly targeted grant opportunities based on their profile, research funders and their giving history, analyze IRS Form 990 filings, discover grant recipients, and answer complex funding questions using natural language—all within the GrantWatch Grant Lifecycle Platform.
Part of the GrantWatch Grant Lifecycle Platform
GrantWatch Visibility Tiers are one part of the growing GrantWatch ecosystem.
Organizations and grant professionals with an eligible MemberPlus+ subscription also receive access to the GrantWatch Dashboard and the 12-Stage Grant Pipeline, integrating funder research, grant opportunities, and application management into a single workflow for highly targeted grant matching based on an organization’s profile, managing the grant pipeline, and supporting every stage of the grant lifecycle.
Together these integrated tools provide a sophisticated grant matching, funder insights, and prospecting workflow while helping organizations discover funding opportunities, research funders, collaborate with colleagues, track proposals, manage awards, and strengthen long-term funding relationships.
- Discover funding opportunities
- Research funders and grant recipients
- Organize grant prospecting
- Collaborate with colleagues and clients
- Track proposals and deadlines
- Manage awarded grants
- Complete post-award reporting
Why Organizations Claim Their Profiles
Every Visibility Tier badge links directly to the organization’s Official GrantWatch Profile, allowing visitors to verify the organization’s identity, current profile information, and earned Visibility Tier.
Organizations claim their GrantWatch Profile to ensure that grant seekers, funders, researchers, donors, volunteers, and community partners see accurate, current, and organization-managed information. Claimed profiles also provide a central location where organizations can update their public presence as they grow and evolve.
For grant seekers, maintaining a complete and up-to-date profile, helps GrantWatch Intelligence identify more highly targeted grant opportunities based on the organization’s official profile information.
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