> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/administrator/classification/funder-networks.md. Every page is listed at https://admin.backed.giving/help/llms.txt.

> This page uses Backed's default terms, such as Funding Round and Application Template. An organisation may rename them, so read each as your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

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

1. Go to `Settings > Profile and terms` and open the `Funder networks` tab.
2. Read the network's `Data-sharing agreement`.
3. 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organisation shared is withdrawn from the network's view.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`Show my share log` lists what your organisation has shared and withdrawn, and why.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.

## See also

- [Classification](classification.md)
- [Portfolio](../reports/portfolio.md)