CIFIS for Community Foundations
See who else funds what you fund.
Foundations already know their grantees. The harder question is ecosystem: which peer funders are active alongside your portfolio, where capacity gaps sit and where co-funding is possible. CIFIS answers that question with verified records — not intuition.
The ecosystem view
Illustrative Example
Foundation · Peer-funder Scan (Illustrative)
Peer funders active with your grantees
- Sample Community Foundation12
- Regional Family Foundation8
- Statewide Health Trust5
- Metro Corporate Foundation3
Shared-grantee count · deterministic overlap
For any portfolio, CIFIS surfaces the peer funders active with the same grantees. Overlap is a deterministic count of shared grantee records — never inferred.
Source: CIFIS funder catalog — sample records shown for illustration
Who this is for
- Program officers and portfolio strategy leads
- Community foundations coordinating regional capital
- Family and private foundations refining strategy and grantee support
The workflow
- Import your funding priorities and grantee list.
- Scan peer funders active in the same geographies and issues.
- Surface grantee readiness gaps using CAPS Lite signals.
- Use Ask CIFIS to answer portfolio and ecosystem questions with citations.
What CIFIS does not do
- Recommend grant decisions or predict grantee outcomes.
- Share your grantee list with other foundations.
- Replace your grants management system — CIFIS is intelligence, not GMS.