Grant Management Software | Dapple

All the grant admin, done for you. Every decision, still yours.

Dapple handles admin-heavy work: reading guidelines, scoring applications, checking receipts, drafting variance reports, and keeping payment schedules on track — leaving you free to focus on your applicants, your decisions, and your grantees.

Award overview

Ready for your approval

1 item flagged

Creative Futures Fund — Cohort 3
Award #DPL-2026-0143

Total awarded
£12,000

✦ AI variance summary
Spend is well-evidenced and activity is broadly on track. Materials & printing is 21.7% over budget — the grantee's explanation (a mid-period paper price rise) is consistent with the receipts provided.

Recommendation: release Tranche 3 with a note requesting confirmation on admin costs.

✓ Initial disbursement £3,000
✓ Q1 report approved £3,000
! Q2 report under review £3,000 held

Recent activity
✦ Variance report generated for Q2 — 1 item flagged
14 minutes ago
🧾
4 receipts matched against budget categories automatically
18 minutes ago
✉
Reminder sent — Q3 report due in 14 days
2 hours ago

Fund: 2026 Open Studios
£120,000
Paid — £52,000
Awarded, unpaid — £34,500
Unallocated — £33,500

Eligibility checks run
127
Average 0.4s per application

Awarded vs disbursed this year
Awarded by month: Jan £8,000, Feb £15,000, Mar £24,000, Apr £33,000, May £41,000, Jun £50,000, Jul £58,000, Aug £64,000, Sep £70,000, Oct £76,000, Nov £81,500, Dec £86,500.
Disbursed by month: Jan £3,000, Feb £6,000, Mar £9,500, Apr £14,000, May £18,000, Jun £23,000, Jul £28,000, Aug £32,000, Sep £37,000, Oct £42,000, Nov £47,000, Dec £52,000.

Organizations that use Dapple

The shift

AI-powered grant management that works alongside you, not instead of you.

📋
Build your application form in minutes
Use Dapple's AI form generator to create a tailored application from a short description, or start from a ready-made grant template. Add your eligibility guidelines as a PDF or Word doc — no rebuilding from scratch.

✦ AI reads, scores, and routes
Every application is checked against your criteria automatically — scored, tagged, and moved to the right stage.

👥 Your reviewers, automatically looped in
Set up review panels and let automations send the right applications to the right reviewers — no manual forwarding, no spreadsheet trackers.

💷 Funds ready, reports drafted for you
Variance reports generated automatically from grantee submissions and receipts. Disbursements via Stripe, released with your one-click approval.

📊 Reports and dashboards, built in
Create reports, dashboards, and data analysis directly within the platform — no exporting to spreadsheets to understand how your programme is performing.

✦ AI handles the admin
Reading guidelines, scoring applications, matching receipts, drafting variance reports, chasing reports on schedule.

Humans make the calls
Judging creative merit, reviewing borderline cases, deciding on funding, and building relationships with grantees.

Your grants assistant does the admin. You and your panel make the calls.

Eligibility, automated

Upload your guidelines. Dapple does the rest.

Drop in your existing eligibility criteria as a document, and Dapple's AI extracts every requirement — hard eligibility rules, required documentation, and scored preferences — ready for review before going live.

Eligibility Guidelines

Extracted automatically

Every application, assessed instantly

A score, a tag, and a summary — the moment an application lands.

Set up automations based on the result. Strong applications move straight to review. Borderline ones get flagged for a human. Ineligible ones get a kind, specific explanation — automatically.

✦ AI eligibility summary
One hard eligibility criterion was not met: the submitted project budget (£17,800) exceeds the £15,000 cap. All other hard criteria are satisfied.

As a first-time applicant proposing a project with clear community engagement elements, the application scores well on preference criteria.

Recommend: manual review — budget may be adjustable before resubmission.

58/ 100
Needs review
✓ Based in Greater London
✕ Budget within cap — over by £2,800
✓ Portfolio attached (4 works)
✓ First-time applicant (+15 pts)

Everything in one place

Smart Eligibility

Upload your guidelines and let AI extract hard criteria, required evidence, and scored preferences.

Score every application against your criteria the moment it is submitted.

Funds & Disbursement

Set up project funds, allocate awards, and release payments in tranches through Stripe Connect.

Track each payment from fund allocation through to grantee payout.

AI Variance Reports

Grantee updates and receipts are turned into clear budget-vs-actual summaries with recommendations.

See over/under-spend, evidence quality, and release suggestions in one view.

Contracts & e-Signatures

Generate and send grant agreements for signature, then trigger next actions automatically.

No more chasing signed agreements over email.

Drawdown Schedules

Set milestone, quarterly, or custom payment plans tied to reporting and approval conditions.

Held tranches are linked directly to the report or action that is blocking release.

Automated Workflows

Use scores, status changes, and approvals to route work and notify teams without manual admin.

A consistent process that still feels personal for each grantee.

Pre-award meets post-award

Most platforms stop at the award letter. We don't.

Most grant software handles applications, scoring, and award decisions well — then leaves you to chase payments through spreadsheets, bank portals, and email threads. That's where funding delays, broken audit trails, and closeout headaches actually happen.

The usual handoff

→

With Dapple

No exporting. No second system to reconcile against. The record that scored an application is the same one that pays it.

Built around your schedule

Payments ready to go. One-click disbursement.

Quarterly, milestone-based, or one-off. Each tranche is prepared and ready the moment its condition is met — you just give the one-click sign-off. Grantees always know what's next.

✓ Initial payment
Approved with one click once the award and signed agreement are confirmed.

£3,000
Paid 15 Jan

✓ Q1 payment
Released after the Q1 variance report was reviewed and approved.

£3,000
Paid 3 Apr

! Q2 payment
Report submitted — AI variance summary generated, awaiting admin sign-off.

£3,000
In review

4 Final payment Released after the final report and project completion.

£3,000
Not yet due

What's coming

What we're building, in plain terms.

  1. Smart Eligibility & AI scoring
    Upload guidelines, get extracted criteria, and let every application get an instant score, tag, and summary.

  2. Funds, awards & Stripe disbursement
    Per-project funds, award allocation, and direct payments to grantees via Stripe Connect.

  3. AI-powered variance reporting
    Grantee progress forms feed straight into AI-generated budget variance reports with release recommendations.

  4. Built-in contracts
    Award agreement templates, sent for e-signature, tracked to completion, tied into your fund workflow.

  5. Review panels & built-in reporting
    Automate routing applications to your reviewers, and build dashboards and reports on your programme — no spreadsheets required.

✦ Auto-assigned
"Creative Futures Fund — Cohort 3" matched 3 reviewers based on panel rules — sent automatically on submission.

Average score so far: 8.4 / 10

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

We know you have questions about grant management and how Dapple can help your organisation, so we've put together some answers to the most common ones. If you can't find what you're looking for, please get in touch.

Is Grant Management available now?

Do I need to be an existing Dapple customer?

What does AI do in this workflow?

How will payments work?

Will my data be used to train AI models?

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