Managing research grants has never been easier

Fund impactful research projects and manage them in a data-driven, efficient, and transparent way with Optimy’s research grant management platform.

340+

Organizations worldwide

25+

Countries that we are active in
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Streamline your research grant management

Optimy provides an all-in-one solution for research organizations that award grants and fellowships. By reducing the administrative burden, you can now be productive and give your team an efficient way to track, manage and report on funding programs.

Choose a trust-building platform for all stakeholders.

Optimy increases transparency and builds trust with everyone involved in the research grant management process. Applicants have a good user experience and are kept up-to-date with their application’s status. Evaluators benefit from an organized space that enables productivity. Administrators have complete visibility over all aspects of their program.

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Research grant administrator

Have complete visibility over all aspects of your research programs : researcher applications, investment tracking and reporting. Take advantage of automation tools to streamline administrative tasks and work more efficiently.

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Research grant evaluator

Benefit from a one-stop space centralizing all information regarding the research project applications. Use the communication tools for more efficient teamwork and evaluation of research grant projects, building the researchers team on par with your ambitions.

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Appying researchers

The personalized forms make uploading applications and documents easy. The platform is designed for easy follow-up, making applying for the research grant easy and transparent.

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Research grant management software with a difference

Optimy is the world’s most configurable solution that helps organizations amplify their positive impact and build meaningful relationships with causes, communities, customers, and employees.We are committed to helping organizations be a force for good in the world. As a result, the Optimy platform is designed to reduce friction and break down barriers to amplify your positive impact.

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Collecting

Make applying to your research grant offers easy ! Collect all the data you need in one place to make your decision-making process quicker and more efficient.

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Evaluation

Define your own KPIs for an automatic screening of projects, and use the collaborative platform with evaluators to determine the best projects to invest on.

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Project Management

Follow your project from A to Z. Define and get reminded of tasks and to-dos. Work with the different stakeholders directly from the platform.

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Measuring

Access data for your financial investments, the projects ROI, your social impact… Create personalized reporting to better communicate on your work with colleagues and stakeholders.

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Budget tracking

Maintain control of your expenses. Overview how much money has been allocated for each project and make sure you are within your budget.

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Grant reports

Get grant reports on the go, using our library of reports. Customize the reports to your needs and share them with stakeholders.

Testimonials

What teams like yours achieved

Empowering 340+ organizations to run smarter grants, sponsorships and volunteering programs. Discover how Optimy helps customers save time, simplify workflows and grow their social impact.

OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation
“I use the messaging tool all the time. It is particularly helpful to have a good overview of the programs we have done so far with a partner. If a team has changed, we can have continuity on the projects without losing history and visibility, it’s super efficient."
Frédéric Corbasson
Executive Director Europe & Middle-East
Veolia Environmental Trust
“The time saved with Optimy enables us to be more personable, tailoring our approach to the unique needs of each project, which has truly enhanced our relationships with applicants.”
Andrew Brown
Executive Director
Merck Family Foundation
"We really believe in maintaining individual relationships with each funded partner, and the system helps ensure that no detail is overlooked. The ease of accessing and sharing information has made our operations much more efficient."
Elisabeth Schmiedel
Grant Manager
Hatt-Bucher-Foundation
"With Optimy, we've reduced our workload by 40%, allowing us to take on new projects and better serve our community."
Christina Anderegg
Managing Director
Ascend Cares Foundation
“With Optimy's implementation, we witnessed a transformative shift in efficiency and transparency, empowering us to build strong workflows with ease. While challenges persisted during the rollout, we are confident our commitment to optimizing the platform will position us for success."
Krissy Osborne
Program Manager
Swiss Federation of Circus Schools
They have to apply for money and once they get money, they distribute it to the schools. They filled out the application form of our customer Stanley Thomas Foundation and they loved the process. Before it looked complex and outdated, but now they really liked it and are interested in our system for the second part of their activities (distributing money to applicants).
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Karl Kahane Foundation
We have closed our first Optimy application cycle this Sunday and everything worked out well! One grantee from Israel has received an extended deadline (different reason) but for all the others it has worked very well and we have received feedback that it was intuitive and easy to navigate. This is great news for us! Thank you for your support!
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Mutuelle Intégrance
"The choice of Optimy was a turning point for Mutuelle Intégrance. Its simplicity, speed, and intuitive design significantly improved our processes related to support requests, ensuring timely assistance to our members while adhering to strict quality standards and data protection regulations."
Patrice Pointillon
Responsable de l'Action Sociale
ABN AMRO Foundation
Optimy is reasonably priced, flexible, and comprehensive. It offers everything we need to manage our volunteering programs effectively, and the team behind Optimy is incredibly supportive and responsive.
Marielle Versluis
Social Impact Advisor
Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
"Optimy streamlined our intricate three-step evaluation process, ensuring accessibility for all users, from office staff to board members. Its user-friendly interface simplified our procedures, making it an essential tool for our foundation's success."
Myriam Vetsch
Head of Administration
Loterie Nationale
“The ease of use and flexibility offered by the Optimy solution allowed us to tailor it continuously. This adaptability is crucial to build our unique workflow with very strict processes to follow, as we are partially under Government control. I am very grateful to the Optimy team who never run out of solutions.”
Lauranne Lenoir
PSD Process Manager
Lexington Medical Center
"I've been a strong advocate for using a SaaS solution such as Optimy for a while, and I want to express my gratitude to the team that helped us bring this tool to life. Kate has been fantastic—always responsive and a pleasure to work with."
Thomas Tafel
Director of Community Health
Fondation Charcot
"Optimy has revolutionized our grant-making process, ensuring efficiency, seamless collaboration, and a smoother path to breakthroughs. Its added values include harmonizing candidate applications and reducing the risk of file loss."
Isabelle Bloem
CEO
Grameen Foundation
“We did not anticipate the level of difficulty for applicants to be able to fulfill the application process for our Innovation Grants. We needed to use a system with tighter validation yet very simple to fill in, and that is where we landed with Optimy … we are able to capture similar/comparable data across grantees as well as have all the data we need for impact analysis and reporting.”
Gigi Gatti
Sr. Director, Program Strategy & Learning
IDEMIA
“In terms of monitoring, measuring, and distributing/placing on the map, it's also extremely simple: one click and it's done. This is invaluable for us in terms of time management, both for the person reporting the project and for the person analyzing it afterwards.”
Marie-Louise Lemarchal
CSR Assistant
Iren
"Optimy solved our need to centralize everything on a single platform and ensure a single, linear and consistent process."
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Communication and external relations - Brand strategy, Digital and Sponsorship
EM Normandie
All the small features allow you to manage everything from A to Z: from the student's file to the validation and actual payment of the scholarship.
Julien Soreau
Head of Balance and Inclusion Service/Associations and Activities Service Disability Group Manager of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles
Fondation d'entreprise AG2R LA MONDIALE
The tool is easy to set up!
Donata Moriggi
Deputy General Secretary
Fondation Française des Jeux (FDJ)
Optimy makes things easier. We have a lot more requests thanks to the tool, which is very positive for us. The surface is nice and intuitive, there are always solutions, and it's always agile. We saved maybe half of the time, that's huge.
Celine Aubree Bafaro
Responsable Engagement Parties Prenantes
EPCOR
"We would refer Optimy to anyone who is looking for a great way to organize and streamline their community investment activities. Our team now has a much easier time managing corporate giving activities with Optimy’s system and customer service support."
Robyn Schommer
Senior Advisor of Community Investment
Engie Foundation
The Optimy software is the right solution for streamlining the request submission, we therefore operate with greater effectiveness by speeding up our procedures. And now, we can also manage projects overtime.
Nadège Lharaig
Project Manager
DOEN Foundation
We are new in this operation, and it's great to be able to do configurations ourselves. Optimy makes it possible to adjust our strategy and get things done that we would not even think would be possible without a system.
Yorrick Letterie
Sustainability Manager
Mainova
Generating data has become easier with Optimy.
Marina Bergner
Sponsorship and Sustainability Manager
Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte
Optimy is so flexible. You can always change the questions, the parts of the form.
Rahel Stauffiger
Support & Promotion
Primonial Foundation
We moved from manual work to digital with Optimy, which saves time for the whole team.
Clara Rigaud-Perut
Project Manager
ORPEA Foundation
Optimy is our tool to manage employee's engagement at ORPEA Foundation.
Inès de Bailliencourt
Project Manager
L'Oreal Foundation
Thanks to the Optimy solution, we manage the flow of requests, organise them by theme, receive a detailed project description, and can provide answers to all project submitters.
Andrea C
Project Coordinator
Total Foundation
With 100's of new projects funded every year, we've drastically reduced the amount of manual workload thanks to Optimy!
Anne V
General Secretary
Swiss Re foundation
No more guesswork! We now have a complete overview of the funds we allocate per year and whether we are dealing appropriately with the money that we are receiving by tracking our KPIs.
Elodie W
Senior Portfolio Manager
EDF Foundation
If we hadn't had Optimy, especially in 2020, it'd have been a nightmare because the call for projects generated more than 600 applications (complete files received)!
Véronique S
Project Manager
Eins Energie
"Optimy is a great holistic solution for sponsorship management and contributes to the digitalization of our work."
Carmen S
Corporate Communication Manager
Fondation Cœur & Recherche
The Optimy software is perfectly suited to our needs, especially for the management of the evaluation by our expert partners.
Elisabeth Riboud
Development Manager
Michelin Corporate Foundation
Just like Michelin, the Foundation’s standing is global and its ‘Helping people move forward’ signature illustrates its sponsorship projects’ human dimension, mediums of progress and social development.
Jean-Dominique Senard
President of the Executive Board
Alstom Foundation
The online submission tool has broadened the level of awareness, and we significantly increased the number of good projects submitted, they could easily find us and submit to us. Previously, by email, we received less than half of what we receive today.
Barry H
Secretary General
Mainova
“Optimy represents a great overall package consisting of an easy-to-understand program for daily use, as well as a friendly and always helpful support team.”
Marina B
Clerk for donations
Veolia Trust
If you are looking to make changes and improve your systems and processes to meet the needs of your applicants it’s definitely worth using Optimy to do that.
Elizabeth C
Head of Grants
Skandia
With Optimy, I can easily add questions to my forms and therefore receive applications that give me the information that I need. Today I can clearly see how many opportunities this tool has brought us.
Birgitta H
Project manager
Nordisk Haemophilia Foundation
The Optimy tool is created to adapt to foundations' needs. Optimy helped us to be more aligned across our projects, and I like that it's an online tool. With times we are living, the tool has a big positive impact on how we work as a team.
Xio F
Project Manager
Wasserman
"To digitally collect and centralize proposals makes the process more efficient. It's way better than having countless Excel documents and spreadsheets. The Optimy tool provides convenience to our clients as well as to us."
Jack R
Manager of Marketing Services
Capital Power
We went from 7 to 3 minutes per application! With such an increase in efficiency, the team can now focus their time and energy with our partners in local communities.
Lindsay C
Community Specialist
Golden Goal
"Once our clients set up a sponsorship process, they see that they need a tool to collect and select the right applications, and that is when we think of Optimy."
Sadi N
Sponsorship Manager
UNIL
The tool allows us to review more projects in a better way. It’s really useful to keep track of each project and track back the evaluation that was done. Now with Optimy, everything is very findable, and without the tool, we wouldn’t have managed.
Pablo D
Coordinator of the Commission

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Countries that we are active in

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Social Impact projects managed through Optimy

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