Community Foundation Grantmaking Impact Assessment

Community foundations play a vital role in strengthening local communities through strategic grantmaking and capacity building. Effectively measuring and communicating this impact to donors, board members, and the broader community is essential for transparency, accountability, and continued support.

This Community Foundation Grantmaking Impact Assessment template is designed specifically for community foundations, family foundations, and philanthropic organizations that need to demonstrate the tangible outcomes of their grantmaking activities. Whether you're preparing for an annual report, board presentation, or donor stewardship initiative, this form helps you systematically capture the full scope of your foundation's community impact.

Paperform makes impact reporting straightforward and professional. The intuitive interface allows program officers and foundation staff to create beautifully branded assessment forms that reflect your organization's identity while gathering structured data on grants awarded, nonprofit capacity development, collaborative initiatives, and collective impact metrics. With conditional logic, the form adapts based on grant types and program areas, ensuring you collect relevant details without overwhelming respondents.

Use this template to track key grantmaking outcomes including total funding distributed, number of organizations supported, demographic reach, capacity-building investments, multi-sector partnerships formed, and measurable community-level changes. The structured format ensures consistency across reporting periods while remaining flexible enough to capture both quantitative metrics and qualitative success stories.

Once submissions are received, Stepper (stepper.io) can automate your post-reporting workflows—routing data to your CRM or grants management system, triggering report generation, notifying stakeholders when impact milestones are reached, and keeping board members updated with key insights. This integration transforms raw impact data into actionable intelligence for strategic decision-making.

For foundations requiring formal documentation, Papersign (papersign.com) enables you to convert assessment findings into board-approved reports or donor agreements that require authorized signatures, maintaining a complete audit trail from impact measurement through formal reporting.

Trusted by nonprofits and foundations worldwide, Paperform is SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant, ensuring your sensitive grantmaking and community data remains secure. Start measuring and communicating your foundation's true community impact with a system designed for the transparency and accountability that donors and stakeholders expect.