Take the tour

A 60-second walkthrough of GrantCycle

You are the Program Officer at Riverfield Foundation. Cedar Heritage Trust submitted an LOI for $42,000 to fund Appalachian Apprentice Concerts 2026. Walk through what happens from LOI screening to a signed award letter and a scheduled payment release.

Click any step to start the tour from there. A green banner stays at the top of every page so you always know what to look at and how to advance.

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Viewing asApplicant / Grantee·/applicant
Applicant view: Cedar Heritage Trust submitted LOI-2031 for Appalachian Apprentice Concerts. They can see status, prior cycles, and any requested documents.
See it as the applicant
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Viewing asProgram officer·/applications
Program officer queue: LOIs awaiting screening + full applications in flight. Screen the Cedar Heritage LOI and invite a full application.
Open the program officer queue
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Viewing asReviewer·/applications
Reviewer view: assigned applications scored independently against the 5-dimension rubric. Peer scores are hidden until the committee phase.
Score as a reviewer
4
Viewing asCommittee member·/applications
Committee packet: aggregated reviewer scores + program officer notes. Recommend a final award amount within the program budget cap.
Open committee packet
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Viewing asFinance·/payments
Finance confirms the $42,000 award, generates the payment schedule, and releases the first milestone. Held milestones surface here too.
Confirm + schedule payment
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Viewing asGrants admin·/output/award-letter/awd-2031
Grants admin generates the branded award letter packet (terms, payment schedule, reporting cadence) ready to send to Cedar Heritage Trust.
Open the award letter packet
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Viewing asAuditor (admin)·/audit
Every screening decision, score, committee vote, award action, and payment event landed in the audit trail. Read-only and exportable.
See the audit trail

What you will learn

You just walked a full grant lifecycle: LOI submission → screening → reviewer scoring → committee recommendation → award letter generation → scheduled payment release → audit trail. Every other route in GrantCycle hangs off this spine.

Tip: every state change in this app emits an audit event — open /audit to see the trail.