The Groundswell alternative for CSR teams that do grantmaking

Submittable is a true all-in-one social impact platform that helps CSR teams run employee giving, volunteering, and corporate grantmaking programs from one place.

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89% of Submittable customers build and launch a program in 2 weeks or less

Trulieve upped volunteer event participation by 55% with Submittable

MiiR saved 100 hours across the program lifecycle

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If you do corporate grantmaking, you need Submittable

Groundswell’s grantmaking features are incomplete. According to their grantmaking features page, they allow you to disburse funds as a corporate grant, but not much else. Reviewers on G2 agree. They say that:

They are “waiting for a grantmaking module”^¹
“Some features are not available”^²
They can’t do “recordkeeping for corporate grants”^³

Submittable has been building a fully featured grantmaking software for nearly a decade. It’s relied upon by thousands of organizations to make great change happen.

$1.3B+

In total funds disbursed through Submittable

11.3k

Collaborative reviews conducted by teams using Submittable in 2023

Submittable is building tech for all the ways you want to give

In addition to employee giving and volunteering tools, Submittable has a fully featured GMS. Even more so now that Submittable has joined forces with WizeHive, Bright Funds, and WeHero.

Submittable and Bright Funds are designing tools that embed giving into the everyday lives of employees. With these tools, your employees can:

Receive donatable funds as a reward for things like kudos or event participation
Have their donations matched automatically and receive a notification when matches happen
Get their own dashboards to track their impact, including all receipts for tax season
Give your employees access to over 8 million vetted nonprofits

Submittable and WeHero work together to not just plan great volunteer events but also activate employee participation. We’re building tech to help your employees:

Create their own volunteer events as a part of their ERG
Get all the information they need to participate in one place
Automatically log VTO
Activate employees by giving them access to 450,000+ volunteer opportunities

Submittable’s DNA is in grantmaking, with almost a decade of experience helping thousands of organizations run grant programs. With Submittable, you can:

Run the full grantmaking cycle–from form building to funds distribution and reporting–within the same platform
Collaboratively review applications as a team and communicate within the platform
Share your impact with advanced reporting tools and integrations

Groundswell vs Submittable: Capabilities at a glance

	Submittable & Bright Funds	Groundswell
Grant application collection and review	✔
Anonymized grant application review	✔
Collaborative review	✔
In-app communication	✔	✔
Automate review workflows	✔
Funds tracking and disbursement	✔	✔
Database of vetted nonprofits	✔	✔
Employee volunteering	✔	✔
Dollars for Doers	✔	✔
Personal impact dashboards	✔	✔
Micro-actions and challenges	✔	✔
Giving and matching	✔	✔
Automatic matching	✔	✔
Comprehensive reporting	✔	✔
Fundraising and donation collection	✔	✔
Connecting giving to employee engagement programs (e.g. wellness challenges and kudos programs)	✔
A persistent wallet for all of an employees giving dollars	✔	✔
Number of vetted charities employees can choose from	7.5 Million	1.8 Million
Number of countries you can run programs within	110	86

* This table is as accurate as we can verify as of September 2024.

Groundswell treats grants as an afterthought

Groundswell is on the cutting edge of innovation when it comes to employee giving and volunteering, but without great grantmaking tools, they’ll never be truly all-in-one.

Consider the suite of products Submittable is bringing together:

A truly powerful, yet intuitive grantmaking platform with Submittable’s GMS and WizeHive’s NextZen
Employee giving tools that “just make sense” with Bright Funds and the upcoming Wallet feature
Employee volunteer activation with WeHero’s volunteer experience packages

Submittable can give you all the upsides of Groundswell’s employee giving and volunteering experiences, with none of the compromises on corporate grantmaking.

Submittable is the Groundswell alternative for corporate grantmakers

Schedule a demo today to see how Submittable compares with Groundswell.

The CSR industry is at an exciting stage with such intense competition. We encourage you to explore your options. Here is a competitor page for similar products to Groundswell. If you’re considering Benevity, you can check out our Benevity alternatives page, and if you’re considering Deed, you can check out our Deed alternatives page.

Also, keep in mind that we recently joined forces with our friends at WizeHive, WeHero, and Bright Funds. This means everything we’ve covered on this page will only improve (and improve quickly).

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