Our grant and funding management system fits directly into our platform and builds heavily on the organization and project portraits on stiftungschweiz.ch: NonProfits submit applications directly on the portrait of participating funding organizations. And the application itself refers to the organization and project portrait of the applicant organization. Both portraits provide the basis for the first two of three parts of the application. This means you only have to enter these two parts once and can concentrate fully on the third part of the application. The third part includes the enquiry (you can read here why we do not include a cover letter in the standard template of our application form and how to write an effective request), the required amount, the IBAN as well as additional questions and attachments. These can vary greatly depending on the funding organization.

If you are a Nonprofit and do not yet manage an organization or have not yet created a project, you must do this first. Complete the first section ‘Key Data (Required Fields for Grant Requests)‘ for both the organization and the project. If you additionally choose to provide more information, the funding organization will have a better understanding of your initiative. If you have your organization verified, we will also publish it in the directory of nonprofit organizations in Switzerland. This way, your organization and project become visible to other funding organizations as well. However, to submit a grant request, it is sufficient to complete only the first section of the organization and the project portrait.

As a nonprofit, you can start the application process for participating funding organizations directly from their portrait on stiftungschweiz.ch. After clicking on ‘Submit Grant Request’, you will either follow the instructions on the guided entry page (if the funding organization has activated it) or you will select your organization, the project for which you wish to submit a grant request, and, if applicable, the appropriate grant request form from the dropdown, and then click ‘Continue’.

You can submit applications directly from the portrait of the funding organization.

The input screen will show you whether you have entered all the required information on your organization and project portrait. If information is still missing, you can go directly from the input screen to the relevant portrait and add the missing entries there.

The input screen will show you whether any information is still missing for your application.

Then, carefully complete the enquiry, the required amount, the IBAN and the individual questions of the funding organization. When you have finished, click on ‘Next’. Now, check all the information. You can adjust your details again by clicking on ‘Back to editing’. If all the details are correct, click on ‘Send request’ to submit your application.

In this video, we explain step by step how to complete your details and submit the grant request (you can activate English subtitles):

You can see all your applications in your application overview, sorted by status under the menu item ‘Grant Requests’. In the overview, you can see at a glance for each application which organization the application was submitted to, for which project, the amount requested and the total amount required, the project duration, the request, and the status.

Your applications are divided into four statuses in the Grant Requests overview:

You will be informed automatically when the status of your application changes from ‘Submitted’ to ‘Accepted’ or ‘Rejected’. This means you always have an overview of all your applications.

We use a clever labeling system to manage and filter applications. To add a label to a request, click on ‘Edit labels’, enter the label in the text field, and then press ‘Enter’. Add as many labels as you like and then click on ‘Save’.

You can enter labels here.

To filter for a label, click on the symbol with the three dashes next to ‘Labels’ and select the desired labels.

This is how you filter for labels.