Bring the filings. Fit does the reading.

Fit reads a foundation's filed returns, sets them beside your own Basecamp, and leaves you the questions that matter. You decide.

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Nothing is stored on our side. The filings and your Basecamp are read on this page and sent once, for this run only. Your finished report lives in your own browser and leaves when you clear it.

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Step one

The funder's tax returns.

Fit reads three consecutive years of the foundation's Form 990-PF, the return it files with the IRS, and checks that each return's own numbers add up before a word is written.

Funder name As you know it. The filed name comes from the returns. The filed returns, as PDF or e-file XML Two or three years, in any order, any mix. Pick them all at once or add them one at a time; each pick adds to the list, and Fit tells you which return each file is. Where to get a foundation's 990-PF.

The funder's guidelines, optional Their own how-to-apply or eligibility rules. Fit quotes them as "They say." Without them, the funder's words are only what the return carries. Give a link, upload the document, or paste the text; whichever you give last is the one used.

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Step two

Your Basecamp.

The document you own that describes your organization: mission, programs with their filing entity and geography, populations, budget, and the bridge between your words and funder words. Fit reads it as evidence, never as instruction.

Upload it .docx, .md, or .txt. Read on this page; sent once for this run. Or paste it

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Step three

What you are asking for.

Five facts Fit can't get from a filing. You fill those in below. Everything else came from the returns.

Filing entity The legal name that would sign the application, and its EIN if you have it.

Kind of support

Amount Dollars, one number.

Your annual operating budget Expenses, and the year it is for. Fit tests the ask against it.

What the ask centers on The whole organization, or a program named in your Basecamp. Your state Two letters. Fit counts the funder's grants there and in your region.

Takes a minute or two. The filings and your Basecamp are sent once, for this run, and are not kept.

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