Benchmarker

Personalized benchmarks from The State of Grantseeking™ survey data.

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See how your grantseeking efforts compare and use data-driven insights to refine your funding strategy.

Get customized benchmarks from the grantseeking experience of nearly 1,354 nonprofit leaders who responded to The 2026 State of Grantseeking Survey and Report about their grantseeking work in 2025. With this tool, you can review the highlights from the full report.

  • The Benchmarker is a resource that can strengthen your ability to secure grant awards by providing a realistic framework for your grantseeking plans and goals.
  • Use your financial reports from 2025 to answer the questions below. We survey your experiences in grantseeking at the beginning of each year and then report on the outcomes in the spring.
  • Members can use this report along with the Grant Diversification Assessment to set grants program objectives which define how much to pursue and from which types of grantmakers.
  • If you are a Member and would like to save your report to your dashboard, please log in first.
  • You can learn more about the methodology for the Benchmarker.
  • To edit your answers, click the back button on your browser.

The following two questions are required.

What is your annual budget range?
What is your mission focus?

You can view a basic report with the responses of those surveyed within the mission and budget that you selected.

Customize Your Report

You can view a customized report that also includes your own responses. You will need your prior year's grantseeking information including number of grants submitted and received, award amounts, and funding sources.

1. What is the age of your organization?
2. What is your organization's paid staff size (36 to 40 hour per week full-time equivalent employees)?
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4. What percentage of your organization's funding is from grants?
5. What percentage of your organization's grants are recurring grants?
6. From what sources does your organization receive grant funding? (Check all that apply.)
7. Approximately how many grant requests did your organization submit in 2025?
8. To your knowledge, how many grant awards did your organization receive in 2025?
9. Within which range was the TOTAL amount of grants awarded to your organization in 2025?
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11. Which was the largest source of TOTAL grant funding for your organization in 2025?
12. If your organization was awarded a grant in 2025, what was the source of the LARGEST grant awarded?
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14. How long was the grant cycle, from proposal submission to award decision, for your LARGEST grant award?
15. If your organization was awarded a grant in 2025, what was the type of support of your LARGEST award?
16. In 2025, were any of your grant applications collaborative (joint applications with other organizations)?
17. If you collaborated on a grant application in 2025, did your collaborative grant application win an award?
18. What, in your opinion, is the greatest challenge to successful grantseeking?