> This is the Markdown of a Backed Help Centre page, https://admin.backed.giving/help/administrator/funds/donor-portal.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 donor is someone you invite from a fund's `Donors` tab. Once they accept the invitation and sign
in, they have a `Donor` mode beside any other portal they use. It shows them only the funds they
are a donor of, and nothing they can change. This appears only when fund management is turned on
for your organisation.

## Their funds

The donor's dashboard lists every fund they are a donor of, with its `Name`,
`Distribution Amount`, `Paid Amount` and `Available Amount`, each in the fund's own currency. They
select a fund's name to open it.

## One fund

A fund's page shows:

- **Balances**: the fund's `Distribution Amount`, `Paid Amount`, `Unpaid Amount` and
  `Available Amount`, and `Available to recommend`, the most a grant recommendation can ask for
  today.
- **Ledger**: the opening balance, each contribution, payment, refund and adjustment in date order
  with the running `Available Amount`, and the closing balance. Allocations to individual
  applications aren't shown.
- **Distributions**: each paid distribution with the recipient's name, the amount and its
  `Paid Date`.
- **Reports**: each donor report you have published, with `Download` for its PDF. Reports that
  aren't published yet don't appear.
- **Your recommendations**: the grants they have recommended from the fund, each `Pending`,
  `Accepted`, or `Declined` with the reason you gave.

The donor never sees your fund notes, internal comments, applications, bank details or other
donors.

## Recommend a grant

The donor selects `Recommend a Grant`, then:

1. Chooses the recipient: `A registered organisation`, found by typing at least two letters of its
   name, or `Another organisation`, by its name and, if they know it, its charity number.
2. Enters the amount. It can't be more than the fund's available balance; if it is, they see
   "This is more than the fund's available balance" and can lower it.
3. Adds a purpose if they like, and selects `Recommend`.

The recommendation appears on your fund's `Recommendations` tab as `Pending` for you to accept or
decline. See [A fund's record and its child funds](fund-record.md). A recommendation for an
organisation that isn't registered can't be accepted until it registers.

## When a donor is removed

When you select `Remove Donor` on the fund's `Donors` tab, the donor loses that fund on their next
visit. If it was their only fund, the `Donor` mode disappears.