For grantees

Fill out your file once. Reuse it everywhere.

Charities spend ridiculous amounts of time re-doing the same paperwork - articles of incorporation, board roster, audited financials, beneficial-owner forms - for every foundation they apply to. We changed the model. You upload it once into your private vault. With your permission, every participating foundation reads from the same file.

In plain English
What is this?
A reusable identity for grantees. You assemble your documentation in one place, control who sees it, and stop re-uploading the same PDF for every donor. Each foundation that wants to consider you reads from the file you already built; you don't redo it.
How does it affect me?
If you're a grantee at a small or mid-sized organization, the time you save here is real. The average grant application costs an organization 30-50 hours of staff time. Most of that is paperwork that should not have to be redone. We give you the time back.
Does it help me?
Three concrete things: (1) Your grant-writing team focuses on the narrative, not the file checklist. (2) Foundations make decisions faster because they're not waiting on documents you already submitted elsewhere. (3) You see, in your dashboard, exactly which foundations have viewed which documents - no more guessing what anyone has.
The problem

The cost of the bad-actor problem falls on honest grantees too

Every fraudulent grantee that slips through somewhere makes life harder for the legitimate ones everywhere. The diligence burden compounds, the funding cycles slow, and the suspicion travels.

  • Every foundation runs its own duplicate diligence. The same documents, references, and financials get reassembled and resubmitted at each application, often costing six to twelve weeks per cycle.
  • A clean track record at one foundation is invisible to the next. Grantees cannot port their reputation across the funder ecosystem, so they start from zero every time.
  • Fraud sweeps are blunt instruments. When a regulator or press cycle surfaces bad actors in a category or region, legitimate grantees in the same space face frozen funding, expanded inquiries, and reputational damage by association.
  • Grantees carry their own legal exposure. False statements on grant applications, misuse of restricted funds, and lapses in 501(c)(3) maintenance can trigger civil fraud claims, breach of contract, IRS revocation, and for federally funded work, False Claims Act liability.

Honest grantees need a way to prove they are honest, once, in a form that travels. Without it, the diligence tax falls hardest on the organizations least equipped to absorb it.

The solution

How Attestyx protects honest grantees

Pre-clearance is not just a foundation tool. It is the mechanism that lets a legitimate grantee establish a verified, portable, court-grade record of its own integrity, then reuse it across every foundation on the platform.

One verification, every foundation

Complete the 148-check verification once. The verified profile becomes available to every foundation on Attestyx, anchored to CourtChain and timestamped at issuance. Application cycles compress from months to days.

A track record that travels

Every successful grant, every milestone met, every disbursement received becomes part of your verifiable history. Foundations evaluating a new application see a third-party-authenticated record of past performance, not a reference list and a hope.

Insulation from fraud sweeps

When a regulator, journalist, or peer foundation surfaces bad actors in a sector or region, Attestyx-verified grantees stand on a documented record that distinguishes them at the moment the inquiry starts.

Documentary defense for your own exposure

The same FRE 902(14) evidence properties that protect foundations protect grantees. If you are ever questioned about source verification of a restricted gift, compliance with grant terms, or fund usage, the contemporaneous record exists, was generated by an independent platform, and is admissible without further authentication.

Free in perpetuity for participating grantees

Under the Human Flourishing Mandate, Attestyx-verified grantees in the five operational jurisdictions (US, UAE, Singapore, Brazil, Europe) receive verification, profile maintenance, and access to the foundation network at no cost. The pipeline is funded by JIL Sovereign Technologies' 10% net-profit donation to Global Hands, Inc. (the US 501(c)(3) operator of Attestyx). Foundations pay the platform fee, not grantees.

How to get started

Five steps. Free for grantees, forever.

Grantees never pay Attestyx. The whole point of the model is that you do the verification work once and the participating foundations cover the cost - which is why you'll see this profile re-used everywhere.

1
5 minutes

Create your profile

Email + organization name + jurisdiction. No payment, no credit card. We confirm by email and you are in.

2
20-40 minutes

Upload your core documents

Articles of incorporation, board roster, audited financials, IRS determination letter or jurisdictional equivalent, conflict-of-interest policy. Drag and drop into the private vault.

3
15 minutes

Disclose beneficial owners + key personnel

A short form for principals holding 25 percent or more, plus your executive director and board chair. Everyone gets a one-time consent email; nothing posts publicly.

4
~2 minutes after upload

Review your verdict report

The 148-check engine runs against your file the moment uploads complete. You see exactly what passed, what is conditional, and what you need to fix - before any foundation sees a thing.

5
Ongoing

Apply to participating foundations

Browse open programs, submit with one click, grant explicit per-foundation document access. Reuse the same vault; never re-upload the same PDF.

Already serving as a fiscal sponsor or reseller? Fiscal-sponsor organizations holding multiple sub-grantees can manage them as one tenant with sub-profiles. Write to [email protected]for the sponsor-tier setup.

What you get

Portable verification

Sanctions screening, beneficial-ownership disclosure, equivalency determination, governance documentation. Verified once. Reused across every participating foundation you apply to, with your explicit consent.

One vault, encrypted

990s, board minutes, audited financials, organizational documents. Encrypted at rest (AES-256), in transit (TLS 1.3), content-addressed by SHA-256. You decide which foundations see which documents.

Unified application surface

Apply to participating foundations from one workspace. Draft management, status tracking, milestone submission, fund-use reporting. Audit-logged messaging with foundation administrators.

Document checklist

The following documents establish a baseline grantee profile. Foundations may require additional documents specific to their grant programs. Maximum file size: 50MB per document. Permitted formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, PNG, JPG.

CategoryDocumentRequired
FormationArticles of incorporationYes
FormationBylaws (current)Yes
Tax statusIRS determination letter (or jurisdictional equivalent)Yes
FinancialForm 990 (most recent)Yes
FinancialAudited financial statements (most recent)Yes
FinancialOperating budget (current year)Yes
GovernanceBoard roster (current)Yes
GovernanceConflict of interest policyYes
GovernanceWhistleblower policyYes
GovernanceDocument retention policyYes
GovernanceRecent board meeting minutesYes
GovernanceAuthorized signers listYes
ComplianceA-133 audit (if US federal grant recipient)If applicable
ProgrammaticLogic model or theory of changePer program

Eligibility

A grantee organization is eligible to apply for grants through the platform if it meets all of the following:

  • Registered charitable organization, social enterprise, or community organization in its jurisdiction
  • Holds applicable tax-exempt status or jurisdictional equivalent (or qualifies for equivalency determination)
  • Operational for a minimum of 12 months
  • At least one named authorized signer who passes individual sanctions screening
  • Maintains basic governance documents (formation, bylaws, board roster)
  • No current sanctions findings, OFAC matches, or applicable enforcement actions
  • Operates in a focus area aligned with at least one open grant program
  • Submits required documentation per the program's requirements

International grantees seeking US foundation grants must additionally satisfy IRS equivalency determination requirements or operate through expenditure responsibility.