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Grant OS
For charities

Grant management software built for UK charities.

Charities juggling multiple restricted grants need more than spreadsheets. Grant OS keeps awards, budgets, expenditure, documents and compliance in one workspace — so every funder report is accurate and audit-ready.

What you get

Grant management for charities

Track every award, approved and received amounts, outstanding balances, deadlines and utilisation in one place.

Budget vs actual monitoring

Grant budgets are locked to the approved award, so overspend is flagged automatically.

Bank-accurate expenditure

Import bank statements and turn real payments into expenses, so your reporting matches your accounts.

Compliance and audit trails

AI compliance checks, risk flags and audit events keep you ready for funder monitoring visits.

Restricted funds, tracked the way funders expect

Most UK charities hold several restricted grants at once, each with its own conditions, spending window and reporting format. Grant OS gives every award its own ceiling based on the approved amount, its own budget categories, its own expenditure lines and its own document folder, so restricted income is never quietly spent on unrestricted activity.

Because each expense is tagged to a grant and a budget category, you can answer the two questions trustees and funders ask most: how much of this grant is left, and exactly what has it paid for so far.

Reporting that matches your annual accounts

Charity finance goes wrong when the grant spreadsheet and the bank account tell different stories. Grant OS builds expenditure from imported bank transactions, so the figure in a funder return is the figure that left your account, and mismatches between payments and recorded expenses are flagged for review.

Financial Returns then assemble budgeted, actual and variance columns with a written reason for each variance, ready to export to CSV or email to a grant officer without rebuilding the numbers by hand.

Ready for monitoring visits and independent examination

Award letters, invoices, receipts and delivery evidence sit in per-grant folders alongside an audit history of who changed what. Trustees, staff and your independent examiner can be invited into the same workspace with role-based access instead of emailing files back and forth.

Frequently asked questions

Is Grant OS suitable for small charities?

Yes. Grant OS is built for small and medium UK charities, and is funded by donations so it stays affordable for volunteer-led teams.

Can we produce funder-ready reports?

Yes. Financial Returns pull live figures from your budgets, expenses and bank transactions, showing budgeted vs actual vs variance, and export to CSV or email.

Does it handle restricted funds?

Each grant has its own budget ceiling, categories, expenses and document folder, so restricted funding is tracked separately end to end.