Community Based Public Safety Collective: Transforming Grantmaking Through Better Data, Insight, and Support

As their funding portfolio grew, Community Based Public Safety Collective recognized that their existing tools were no longer meeting the needs of their organization — or their grantees. They needed a more effective way to understand grantee progress, streamline reporting, and make faster, more informed funding decisions.

Challenge 

The organization had relied on a survey tool for years, but it wasn’t built for the depth and complexity of modern grantmaking. The Community Based Public Safety Collective team found the interface unintuitive and limiting, especially when it came to ongoing progress tracking and reporting.

They needed a solution that would:

• Create a clearer, more meaningful connection with grantees

• Provide better visibility into how grantees were progressing toward their goals

• Eliminate manual reporting and reduce time spent organizing fragmented data

• Support faster, more responsive grantmaking

• Help them deeply understand grantee needs and identify new groups to fund

Ultimately, they realized that to achieve their mission effectively, they needed a platform designed specifically for grantmaking.

Solution

From the first conversations, the team could see that JustFund aligned directly with their priorities and challenges. Several factors made the partnership feel like a natural fit:

• Robust Analytics: Data and insight are central to their work, and JustFund’s analytics capabilities offered exactly what they were missing.

• Common Application: The ability to streamline the application process for grantees was a major advantage.

• Discovery Tools: Tools to help them identify new organizations to fund made the platform stand out.

• Ease of Use: A modern, intuitive interface gave them confidence that both staff and grantees would have a smoother experience.

• Comprehensive Functionality: They saw value across every part of the platform and plan to use nearly all available features.

Together, these capabilities made it clear they had found a true partner — not just another software vendor.

Looking Ahead

In the coming year, Community Based Public Safety Collective is focused on expanding its reach and increasing its impact through a more strategic, data-driven approach to grantmaking. With the JustFund platform in place, the organization aims to:

• Diversify their funding portfolio by finding and supporting new groups

• Implement greater structure and strategic clarity across their grantmaking

• Track subgrantees more effectively, from application through outcomes

• Understand how grantees perform in relation to the goals of each grant

• Eliminate manual reporting, freeing staff time and enabling more timely insights

By partnering with JustFund, they are laying the groundwork for a more efficient, equitable, and impactful grantmaking strategy — one that allows them to better support their grantees and the communities they serve.