Binder & Bow
Binder & Bow
Funding Intelligence
Software for nonprofit fundraising
The Fundraising Reality
Fundraising deserves better intelligence.
In an increasingly competitive fundraising landscape, securing funding is no longer only about submitting more applications. Sustainable funding depends on identifying the opportunities that best align with organizational priorities, evidence and readiness.
Effective fundraising opportunity assessment requires answers to key questions:
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Where are we most aligned?
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What evidence strengthens our position?
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Which opportunities justify investment?
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How should we position our organisation?
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What are we learning from our funding performance?
The challenge is that this intelligence is often fragmented across past proposals, CRM systems and shared drives. Without a connected view of fundraising knowledge, teams struggle to assess fit, understand their position and make evidence-based decisions about where to focus their efforts.
The scale of the challenge
$200bn+
Annual philanthropic grant funding from institutional trusts, foundations, and corporate funds globally.
$900m+
Estimated annual cost of fundraising activity across the global charity sector.
30–60 hrs
Typical preparation time for a major trust or foundation applications.
100–400%
Increase in application volumes reported by institutional funders worldwide.
1 in 3
Nonprofits worldwide spending 3+ days per week preparing funding applications.
The missing intelligence layer
Organisations have systems for storing information, CRMs for managing relationships, and project systems for managing delivery.
But many lack the intelligence layer that connects:
Funding intelligence
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Strategic decisions
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Funding performance
Capture, Govern and Deliver provides this connected layer across the funding lifecycle.
Platform architecture
Available now
Capture
Understand
Identify opportunities
Understand funders
Build organisational evidence
Track trends and relationships
Strengthen strategic positioning
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Govern
Decide
Assess opportunities
Prioritise investments
Enable evidence-based decisions
Manage risk and capacity
Align funding with strategy
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Deliver
Demonstrate
Monitor delivery
Evaluate performance
Measure impact
Document learning
Inform future funding decisions
CAPTURE
Available now
Understand funding position.
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Identify opportunities and build a funding pipeline
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Understand funders and track how priorities are shifting
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Build an organisational evidence base
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Strengthen strategic positioning before opportunities open
Capture brings together funding knowledge, organisational evidence and opportunity intelligence into one connected environment.
Capture
How It Works
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Upload
Import existing funding documents, evidence and organisational information.
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Analyse
Capture structures information into connected funding intelligence using AI.
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Understand
Use connected funding intelligence to see strengths, gaps and position before making application decisions.
Binder & Bow provides a connected funding lifecycle platform to map shifting funder priorities, audit internal evidence base, manage strategy-led investment risks, and evaluate live programmatic performance
integrated funding intelligence ecosystem
a platform providing evidence-based intelligence across the funding lifecycle.