Funder networks

A funder network is a group of organisations that share their awarded grants, so members can see the combined portfolio and where they overlap. Your organisation is invited to a network by its convenor.

Join a network

Go to Settings > Profile and terms and open the Funder networks tab.
Read the network's Data-sharing agreement.
Select Accept and confirm. Your organisation becomes a Member.

Only a Super Admin of your organisation can accept or withdraw. When the network publishes a new agreement, the network shows New agreement to accept: select Re-accept the agreement.

Sharing starts only for the grant rounds your organisation opts in.

Tell grantees their grant may be shared

Each network on the Funder networks tab shows a Network sharing paragraph for grant agreements. Copy it into the Contract Templates of the rounds you share with that network, so each grantee's agreement says what the network may see. An individual grantee is never named: the record carries a pseudonymous identifier instead. Your Contract Templates are not changed for you.

Leave a network

Select Withdraw, give a Reason and confirm. Nothing more is shared, and every grant your organisation shared is withdrawn from the network's view.

Keep track of what is shared

Show my share log lists what your organisation has shared and withdrawn, and why. Select Download CSV to keep a copy.

Read the network's portfolio

Go to Networks under reports. Each network you belong to has three tabs:

Portfolio: every member's shared grants as one portfolio, by the network's taxonomy or by member.
Overlap: organisations two or more members fund in overlapping periods.
Members: who belongs to the network.

Convene a network

If your organisation convenes a network, Invite an Organisation with its key and its name exactly as it names itself on Backed, and Show the share register to see every member's entries.