Connects · Enables · Automates
Built for foundations with $2M–$100M in assets under management
From receiving grants to reconciled disbursements — one platform for your entire foundation.
Incoming grants, donor contributions, multi-fund giving, event revenue, endowment management, maker-checker disbursement approval, QuickBooks/Xero Bill push with auto-reconciliation, batch processing, OFAC screening, board packages, and IRS reporting — the complete money flow, connected and auditable. Replace 5 disconnected tools with one.
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Try grant program intake + annual donor surveys, live
Three open grant programs accepting applications. An annual donor pulse survey with NPS + Likert + ranking. All live on staging, themed for foundation use cases — no signup required.
Sound familiar?
"47 applications in a spreadsheet. One misplaced attachment away from missing a deadline."
Spreadsheets don't scale for grant pipeline management.
"990-PF assembly starts 6 weeks before the deadline and still feels rushed."
Manual IRS filing prep consumes weeks of staff time every year.
"The board asks how much we've granted this year. It takes 3 days to answer."
Disconnected data means simple questions require complex research.
"We process 200 grant applications on paper. Nobody knows which documents go with which applicant."
Without document intelligence, attachments get lost and reviews stall.
"Our grantmaker tool doesn't do accounting. Our accounting tool doesn't do grants. Neither does compliance."
Most foundations pay for 5 tools that don't talk to each other.
"Our program officer left. Half the grantee context is in her head — the other half is in her email."
Staff turnover shouldn't mean losing institutional memory.
Built for grantmakers
From application intake to 990-PF filing — every step of your grantmaking lifecycle connected and intelligent.
Grant Application Portal
Branded application portal with AI mission-fit scoring.
Grant Pipeline
Application → review → committee → award — one pipeline.
Endowment Dashboard
Performance, spending policy, and fund health — live.
990-PF Preparation
Part XV, endowment, excise tax — assembled year-round.
Board Governance
Roster, meetings, votes, and AI-drafted board packs.
Grantee Portal
Self-service status, reports, and program-officer comms.
Smart Disbursements
Approve, screen, push to QuickBooks/Xero in one flow.
Planned Giving Pipeline
Bequests, CRTs, CLTs, life insurance — intent to realization.
Fund Accounting
9 fund types — including endowment and waqf.
Finance Module
Endowment and fund management built for foundations
Track corpus growth, spending rates, and distributable amounts across every fund — all in one real-time dashboard your board will actually trust.
Complete money flow — receiving to reconciliation
Most foundation software handles one direction. Muin manages the entire lifecycle — every dollar tracked from the moment it arrives through approval and accounting reconciliation.
Money In
Receive & Track
- Incoming grants with state-machine pipeline (prospect through awarded)
- Multi-fund donations — donors split gifts across funds on giving pages
- Campaign contributions with targeted outreach and personalization
- Event registration with ticketing, capacity limits, and waitlists
- Program enrollment with tuition schedules and late fee automation
- Pledges with installment tracking and automatic reminders
Steward
Manage & Govern
- Fund accounting across 9 fund types with spending rules
- Endowment health scoring — spending rate, returns, corpus preservation
- CRM activity bridge — 11 event types auto-logged to contact records
- Executive dashboard with real-time pipeline and fund widgets
- Board governance with meeting packages, voting, and resolution tracking
- Deadline automation — alerts at 30, 14, and 7 days before due dates
Money Out
Approve & Track
- Approved disbursements pushed as Bills to QuickBooks or Xero
- Auto-reconciliation when you pay grantees from your bank account
- Maker-checker separation — creator cannot approve their own disbursement
- OFAC screening and compliance validation before every approval
- Batch disbursements — push dozens of Bills in a single run
- Fund balance validation with row-level locking to prevent overdrafts
Every way to give — one platform
Accept grant disbursements, donor contributions, event revenue, and pledges via card, ACH, NFC tap-to-pay, Apple Pay, and Google Pay — all connected to your fund accounting.
Hope Foundation
Monthly Giving
Mobile-optimized
5+ payment methods
Auto tax receipts
Your brand & colors
Public Giving Pages
Branded campaign pages for every initiative
Create campaign-specific giving pages with live progress thermometers, preset amounts, matching gift tracking, and automatic tax receipts. Share via email, social media, or QR codes.
Platform intelligence that multiplies your team
Beyond grantmaking, Muin's platform capabilities give your foundation AI-powered operations that competitors simply don't offer. These work across every feature above — compounding the value of a single connected platform.
Document Intelligence
AI automatically extracts data from grant applications, tax documents, financial statements, and compliance reports. Classification, validation, and field-level extraction eliminate manual data entry.
AI Agents
Purpose-built agents for grant scoring, compliance monitoring, fund health tracking, grantee communications, and document processing. They run continuously — like adding staff focused on operations.
Smart Forms
Visual form builder with conditional logic for grant applications, grantee reports, and board surveys. AI form generation and kiosk mode for events.
Smart Payments
ACH and card payments for grant disbursements and donor intake. NFC tap-to-pay for events. 0.5% platform fee — Stripe-powered with transparent pricing.
Workflow Automation
Automated notification sequences for grant lifecycles — application received, review deadline approaching, payment due, report overdue. Configurable escalation with SLA tracking.
Communications Hub
Email, SMS, and WhatsApp from one inbox. Grantee outreach, donor updates, board communications, and automated sequences — all unified and tracked.
Integrates with the tools you already use
One platform for the foundation stack
Most foundations cobble together separate tools for grantmaking, accounting, communications, tax filing, and board management. Data lives in silos. Staff re-enter the same information everywhere. Muin builds what we own the workflow for, and integrates with QuickBooks, Xero, and your bank where you'd want a specialist.
Before Muin
- Foundant or SmartSimple for grantmaking (~$15–30K/yr)
- QuickBooks for accounting
- Excel for endowment tracking and 990-PF prep
- Mailchimp for grantee and donor communications
- CPA firm for 990-PF filing ($5–15K/yr)
- Email or paper for board packages
- Separate donor database for fundraising
7 disconnected tools. Data re-entered everywhere. No single source of truth.
With Muin
- Grant application portal, pipeline, and disbursements
- Fund accounting with endowment tracking
- AI agents for compliance, scoring, and communications
- Document intelligence for automatic data extraction
- 990-PF data export — validated year-round
- Board portal with secure packages and vote tracking
- Donor CRM, campaigns, recurring giving, and tax receipts
One platform. One data set. One subscription.
Also built in — no extra cost
Foundation operations go beyond grantmaking. These capabilities come with every Muin plan.
Donor CRM
Full donor profiles, households, giving history, and engagement tracking.
Fundraising Campaigns
Endowment building campaigns with thermometers, matching gifts, and milestones.
Recurring Giving
Monthly/quarterly/annual donations with auto-renewal and failure handling.
Membership Tiers
Patron, Fellow, Founder levels with benefits tracking and auto-renewal.
Volunteer Management
Programs, events, shifts, waivers, expense reimbursement, and compliance.
In-Kind Donations
Inventory tracking, AI-assisted valuation, IRS Pub 561 categories.
Muin Go Mobile
Native iOS and Android app — review grants, approve disbursements, and check fund balances from anywhere.
Reporting & Analytics
Scheduled reports (PDF, Excel), AI narrative summaries, and board-ready dashboards.
Built for every type of foundation
Community Foundations
Manage dozens or hundreds of funds, each with its own donors, spending policy, and granting history. Multi-fund architecture built for your scale.
Family Foundations
Streamlined approval for small boards. Endowment tracking, grant cycles, and 990-PF without enterprise complexity.
Corporate Foundations
Employee nomination portals, community investment programs, impact reporting, and structured grant cycles.
Religious Endowments
Waqf management for Islamic institutions and faith-based foundations. Corpus preservation with distribution tracking.
University Foundations
Scholarship endowments, professorships, and program funds — each with its own spending policy and purpose, rolling up to institutional reporting.
Fiscal Sponsors
Pass-through grant management for unincorporated projects with separate application forms and disbursement tracking per project.
Elena (illustrative scenario), Program Officer
"You became a program officer to change lives, not manage spreadsheets."
Grant applications flow into a pipeline. AI scores each application against your mission and flags duplicates. Reviewers score and comment from their tablets during site visits. The board reviews a digitally assembled package and votes with a click. Grantees submit reports through their own portal. Disbursements post automatically to the right fund. And when tax season arrives, 990-PF data has been validated all year — export it in seconds, not weeks.
Bring your grant history
Migrate from Foundant, SmartSimple, or spreadsheets — your grant history, grantee profiles, and fund data come with you.
QuickBooks Xero See how Muin compares
Disclaimer: Foundant and SmartSimple are established, well-regarded grantmaking platforms with deep functionality for foundations. Comparisons are based on publicly available product documentation. Pricing, features, and plans change frequently — we encourage you to verify directly with each provider. Muin is not affiliated with or endorsed by these companies. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. If you believe any information is inaccurate, please contact us.
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Platform features for foundations
The capabilities your team will live in day to day — from grant intake to disbursement reconciliation.
Document Intelligence
Extract data from grant applications, financial reports, and compliance docs
Intelligent Intake
Capture grant LOIs, applicant questions, and donor intent across email and forms
Workflow Automation
Multi-stage grant review pipelines with maker-checker approvals
E-Signatures
Digital document signing with audit trails
Self-Service Portals
Self-serve grantee portal for applications, reports, and disbursement status
Smart Payments
Disbursements + incoming gifts in one ledger, reconciled to QuickBooks/Xero
Beta Offer
Beta customers get 50% off all plans for their first year. Registered 501(c)(3) organizations also qualify for 25% off after beta — the highest applicable discount is always applied.
Sign Up for BetaWhat your applicants see
A branded grant application portal with program details, eligibility requirements, and a streamlined submission process.
Grant application portal
Branded giving page
Less admin. Better visibility. One connected platform.
From receiving grants and donations to approving disbursements and reconciling payments — grantmaking, endowments, QuickBooks/Xero integration, AI, compliance, and finance all connected. One platform for your entire foundation.
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