Starter
149 € / month
For smaller foundations with a manageable application volume.
- Parallel calls3
- Applications per year1,000
- Storage25 GB
- Custom domainon request
- Feature setcomplete
Volume I · Platform
Siegerland · MMXXVI
AGPL-3.0-or-later
A hosted grant-portal platform for foundations, funding banks and consortia — open source, from Germany, built with the care your applications deserve.
IWhat Grantifex is
A hosted grant-portal platform for organisations that distribute money.
An organisation sets up its own grant portal on Grantifex, publishes its funding programmes there — so-called Calls —, receives applications, has them reviewed, makes decisions and distributes the money. Each customer gets its own, isolated instance under its own domain. No shared database. No multi-tenant risks.
Default is <slug>.grantifex.com. Custom domain included from the mid tier.
Technically, Grantifex is a TYPO3 CMS with a purpose-built extension. From that follows more than an application form: a complete portal with content management, multilingual support, an about page, FAQ, press section — all in the same system. Whatever a customer wants extended, we build on contract — and then give it to all Grantifex instances.
IIWhat the platform does today
Production-ready — no preview, no promises.
What is listed here is live. What is not yet live, you will find honestly listed as roadmap further down.
01 · Forms
Application forms with depth
Multiple pages, conditional logic, repeatable groups, automatic budget sums, cross-field validation.
21 field types 19 validators
02 · Workflow
12-state workflow
With multi-round re-open: applicants revise after queries, and the history stays traceable.
12 states 4 roles
03 · Review
Weighted scoring
Scoring templates, blind review, conflict-of-interest declarations, ranking dashboard with bulk actions.
∞ reviewers
04 · Collaboration
Team applications
Invite collaborators, four role levels, section-level permissions, answer-level comments with @mentions.
05 · Export
PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, ZIP
Including a Word template per programme — award letters come out directly on the letterhead of your foundation.
06 · Communication
E-mail templates with merge
18 templates, automatic deadline reminders, broadcast with recipient filter, mention notifications.
18 templates
07 · Reach
Languages without tier limit
Any language TYPO3 knows can be activated — switched on or off, at any time. German, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese are maintained today. More follow on demand, at no extra cost.
∞ languages possible
08 · Public
Public Proposals · Voting
Community voting with time control, eligibility pre-screening, survey mode, visible or hidden applications.
09 · Analysis
Clusters & duplicates
Saved filters, clustering, duplicate detection across programmes. Manageable even with 5,000 applications.
IIIWho benefits from it
Organisations that award grants — from civic foundations to federal states.
01
Foundations
Multiple pages, conditional logic, repeatable groups, automatic budget sums, cross-field validation.
02
Research funders
With multi-round re-open: applicants revise after queries, the history stays traceable.
03
EU consortia
Scoring templates, blind review, conflict-of-interest detection, ranking dashboard with bulk actions.
04
CSR programmes
Invite collaborators, four role levels, section-level permissions, answer-level comments with @mentions.
05
NGOs with sub-granting
Including a Word template per programme — award letters come out directly in your foundation's letterhead.
06
Bilateral donors
Eleven templates, automatic deadline reminders, broadcast with recipient filter, mention notifications.
What is listed here is live. What is not yet live, you will find honestly listed as roadmap further down.
IVPricing
Three tiers. All features in every tier. What differs is scale.
No feature walls. Unlimited applicants, reviewers and staff — on every tier.
Growth · recommended
449 € / month
For funders with several parallel programmes and growing volume.
- Parallel calls10
- Applications per year10,000
- Storage150 GB
- Custom domainincluded
- Feature setcomplete
Scale
899 € / month
For funding banks, consortia and larger high-frequency programmes.
- Parallel callsunlimited*
- Applications per year25,000
- Storage500 GB
- Custom domainincluded
- Feature setcomplete
* Fair use · for tenant bundles (funding agencies, project organisations, federal states) we quote individually. Enterprise & public sector: individual offer.
Add-ons
Grow beyond your tier without having to switch — including optional AI assistance (assistive · EU · opt-in).
+ 5 calls
49 € / month
+ 50 GB storage
25 € / month
+ 5,000 applications / year
79 € / month
We charge enough for the software to keep improving — and for its development to make a living. Not more.
— Pricing stance
VOpen source as the foundation
The code belongs to the public — not to a corporation.
The grants extension is released under AGPL-3.0-or-later. Freely auditable, verifiable, forkable, self-hostable.
Why AGPLv3 and not permissive?
AGPLv3 protects the public. Anyone who takes the code, modifies it and offers it as a SaaS service must publish their modifications. Improvements flow back into the community. No quiet head start for corporations.
Why pay when the code is freely available?
Self-hosting costs time, expertise and maintenance. Grantifex handles provisioning, hosting, updates and support — for a transparent fixed price. Those with the technical skills host it themselves. Both are legitimate. Both have our respect.
Why does it matter for the public sector?
Public bodies and EU consortia are in some cases required to favour open-source solutions — see Public Money, Public Code and the EU Open Source Strategy. That's a concrete procurement advantage, not an ideological add-on.
VIPortal, not form
Others sell forms. Grantifex delivers a portal.
That is the real difference — not the CMS underneath, but what you can do with it.
Tier 1
Pure application forms
Tier 2
Form with landing page
Tier 3 · Grantifex
Complete grant portal
Technical note, without marketing gloss: Grantifex is a TYPO3 extension called grants. From that follows the extensibility. Those who want to know more will find the technical details in the documentation — and soon in the open repository.
VIIWhat runs. What comes.
We don't talk about features we don't have.
This section shows both: what runs in production today — and what is honestly on the roadmap. Without wishful thinking.
Today
Application & workflow
Today
Review
Today
API & webhooks
In development
AI assistance & SSO
VIIIWorkshop
Workshop in Siegerland. TYPO3 since 2013.
Grantifex grew out of a concrete customer need — not out of a pitch idea.
We have been building with TYPO3 for more than a decade, have supported funding areas for foundations technically and, at the point where every project reused the same building blocks, turned that into a standalone platform. Grantifex is that platform.
On the phone you do not talk to a sales team, but to the people who build, operate and also patch the software at night when a security advisory comes in. That is both an advantage and a disadvantage — and you should know which of the two you are buying today.
— Tom Ludwig
Development & operations · Siegerland
IXTrial access
We set up a test instance of your own — and you take your time to find out whether it fits.
No demo appointments, no sales calls. A test portal under your own subdomain, with a realistic sample call and two weeks of time to try everything out at your own pace.