Grant tracking and evaluation for the Good Relatives Collaborative

Good Relatives Collaborative

The Good Relatives Collaborative provides responsive grants to grassroots and Native-led organizations engaged in community-powered solutions. It's made up of three partner organizations who came together for the specific purpose of making philanthropy accessible to Indigenous people.

• Project purpose

  Soon after its founding, the Collaborative knew it needed to track its impact without burdening its grantess like traditional philanthropic foundations tend to do. There was also a need to create sustainable and replicable internal systems for tracking grantee applications, community review processes, and awards.

• Objectives

  • Define a comprehensive evaluation plan which outlined the long-term vision and outcomes for the investments.

  • Outline tools and processes to implement the plan.

  • Develop a shared database solution to facilitate online applications, reviews, and grant dispersal tracking.

  • Unobtrusively gather data and impacts, then analyze and write annual evaluation reports after the completion of each grant cycle.

• Technology

  Nonprofit Cloud, Formstack for Salesforce

• Outcomes

  We provided the Collaborative an evidence-based report that highlighted key insights and implications to inform its future work as a grantmaker, coach, convener, and philanthropic change agent.

• Timeline

  2024–2026

• Project team

  Andrea Mader — Project administrator and lead evaluator

  Megan Andrews-Sharer — Salesforce database administrator and evaluator

  Jordan Greene — Evaluator

  Nat Bauer — Graphic and layout design, creative direction, and data visualization

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