Efficient working tools for grant giving foundations
Digitally optimize conveyor processes
Use digital tools to make your entire funding process efficient – from scouting to awarding funding. You can identify funding gaps, optimize your selection process, receive and manage applications digitally and provide targeted funding for topics that are in line with your funding strategy. You can also present your foundation and enter into dialogue with other funding organizations in order to build and expand valuable networks together.
Application management
Receive, check and decide on applications digitally
With Spheriq’s application and funding management, you can structure your entire funding process: from online application submission to evaluation and decision-making. This allows you to maintain an overview – and create more space for strategic funding.
Receive funding applications online
Submit applications directly via your foundation profile. Structured, complete and tailored to your requirements. This reduces the number of queries and saves you time for checking the content – even without your own website.
Manage applications and funding centrally
Keep track of all applications received, organize deadlines and budgets and document decisions in one place. This makes your funding management transparent and comprehensible.
Making assessments together
Evaluate, prioritize and decide as a team – simply and in a structured manner with the decision module. Your assessments can be stored directly in the system and documented in a comprehensible manner.
Proactively obtain applications
Invite suitable organizations to submit applications directly and publish targeted calls for proposals – without the organizations having to contact you beforehand. This allows you to minimize unsuitable requests and focus on suitable projects.
Get started digitally: you can use application management at the partner level from CHF 1650.
Scouting and funding alliances
Intelligent research for effective promotion
Is your foundation specifically looking for suitable non-profit organizations or projects? Spheriq’s research tools will make your scouting process efficient, systematic and collaborative. Use digital tools to identify potential funding candidates faster and in a more targeted manner.
Precise search for nonprofits and projects
Find specific organizations and initiatives that match your funding priorities. Use extensive filter functions, save your search queries and receive automatic updates on new, relevant entries.
Support for your due diligence
The organizational and project profiles on Spheriq contain structured information to support you in your own due diligence. With “Fit & Hope” you can see at a glance whether an in-depth study is worthwhile. The funding history shows you who has supported an organization or project in the past. Any tax exemption is checked by Spheriq and displayed on the profile. Recommendations from other funders also help you to make your own assessment.
Organize research in a structured way
Collect and manage interesting hits in flexible lists. Work in a team, assign labels and make well-founded decisions based on your research. Export your results with just a few clicks.
Proactively obtain applications
Invite suitable organizations to submit applications directly and publish targeted calls for proposals – without the organizations having to contact you beforehand. This allows you to minimize unsuitable requests and focus on suitable projects.
Forming funding alliances and promoting together
Work together with like-minded foundations: Share research lists, coordinate funding decisions and invite organizations to apply together.
Case Study Application Management: Cornelius Knüpffer Foundation
Services at a glance
Compare the scope of services of the different levels of Spheriq access and find the right package for you.
Case Study Profile: Gerbert Rüf and Age Foundation
The Spheriq toolbox
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List of actors
Show who you are – and what you achieve
Philanthropy thrives on exchange, visibility and transparency. In the Spheriq stakeholder directory, you can shape the digital profile of your organization – and thus strengthen trust and cooperation in the sector. By participating in the statistics panel, you can compare yourself with similar players and identify development potential.
Provide central information in a targeted manner
Present your foundation with an informative profile – including funding priorities, exclusion criteria, target groups, funding history and preferred application route. This gives applicants the information they need to make well-founded inquiries. At the same time, you reduce the number of unsuitable applications.
Making trust visible with badges
Set an example of transparency and professionalism. Badges such as “Managed”, “Supplemented” or “Tax-exempt” show at a glance that your profile is up-to-date, complete and verified. Other badges such as “Networked” or “Champion” distinguish particularly active and cooperative organizations – and increase your visibility on the platform
Recognize your position in the sector thanks to the statistics panel
Compare your foundation with similar organizations – anonymously, data-supported and scientifically monitored. By participating in the statistics panel, you receive an individual benchmark on assets, funding volume, personnel structure and grants. This not only allows you to recognize development potential and identify cooperation partners, but also contributes to transparency in the sector.
Discover all the functions of Spheriq and the scope of services per feature and level.
Network & Workspaces
Digital collaboration for funders
Philanthropy makes an impact through collaboration. With the networks and workspaces on Spheriq, you can organize your project and committee work efficiently and digitally – for location-independent collaboration at any time.
Network in communities
Network with other grant giving foundations, create and moderate your own network and join existing communities. You decide whether your network is public, restricted or private. You can also see which organizations and people follow your network at any time and manage them easily.
Keeping an overview
With Spheriq’s media service, you can keep an eye on media coverage of your topics of interest. You receive AI-generated summaries of media reports from the international quality press – individualized for your foundation. This allows you to recognize relevant trends at an early stage, keep your finger on the pulse and always be ready to act.
Manage and share documents securely
Store documents in a structured way in a central document repository directly in your own network. Create your own folder structure with relevant subfolders, define access rights and quickly find what you need. Documents that are shared in posts are automatically integrated and easy to find in the document repository.
Digital board management with AI support
In a network, you can plan and manage meetings, tasks and agenda items centrally in one place – including a schedule overview, calendar synchronization and an integrated link for video calls. You can create specific workspaces based on projects, committees or key topics – for example for the head office or the Board of Trustees. This allows you to coordinate your collaboration in foundation boards, teams and interdisciplinary working groups with clear roles, contributions and clearly regulated access rights. The optional AI assistant helps you to summarize dossiers and write recommendations so that you can carry out your committee work efficiently and from anywhere at any time.
Empowerment
Grant giving foundations face a wide range of challenges – from strategic orientation to digitalization and governance. With Spheriq’s learning formats, you can strengthen your skills in a targeted manner: compact, practical and in exchange with other stakeholders.
Bootcamp Attention, ready, digital
Prepare, set up, start motivated: the Achtung fertig digital boot camp helps foundations and associations get started with digital working methods.
Date: December 3, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Location: Online
Cost: CHF 250
Services
Tailor-made support services are available for specific challenges – from the professional appearance of your foundation to data protection issues and the introduction of digital application management. Whether profile optimization, practical checkpoints or individual support in process design: our services help you to act more efficiently, clearly and legally compliant.
Application management setup
With this module, we support funders in setting up their digital application and funding management.