For Grantees & Applicants

Yes, application questions are uploaded to the grant program pages on our website prior to each open application cycle. Please visit the following pages:

• Early Care Spaces
• Innovator Awards
• New & Experimental Works Program
• Open Spaces Program

Please review the application instructions. While the portal doesn’t enforce word limits, some application fields include recommended word counts, and others are reviewed only up to a certain length. Going slightly over is okay, but we encourage you to stay close to the limit so your responses remain clear, focused and impactful.

Please follow the application instructions. You’ll be asked to provide your fiscal sponsor’s legal name, federal tax ID and fiscal sponsorship agreement, so have those ready when you apply.

If you are applying to an open grant application, please use the link in the Funding Opportunities page that is available during the open application period:

• Early Care Spaces
• Innovator Awards (Letter of Inquiry)
• New & Experimental Works Program
• Open Spaces Program (Stage One)

From there, sign in if you are a return user or create an account if you are a new user to access the application.

If you were invited to submit an application or full proposal (e.g., Arts Open Spaces Program Stage Two), an account has already been created for you. Use the link in your invitation email to access the portal. On your first visit, you’ll be prompted to create a password.

The link in the invitation email from your recommender will take you to a landing page. From there, sign in if you are a return user or create an account if you are a new user to access the application.

Yes. You may submit a support ticket to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Grants Management & Learning Team to request accounts for team members or collaborators to access invited applications, reports and award document submission forms.

Please note that this is not available for open call (e.g., New & Experimental Works Program, Open Spaces Program, Innovator Awards Letters of Inquiry, Early Care Spaces) or Discretionary Award applications.

You likely have an unclaimed portal account. Please submit a support ticket to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Grants Management & Learning Team, and we will resend instructions for claiming your account.

When you arrive at the GivingData login page you will see a “Forgot your password?” link at the bottom of the Sign In box. Click the link and follow the instructions to reset your password.

Yes. If you are the same individual or organization, you can log in using the same email address (user ID) and password.

If you would like to update the email address tied to your account, please submit a support ticket to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Grants Management & Learning Team.

For Early Care Spaces, Innovator Awards Letters of Inquiry, New & Experimental Works Program and Open Spaces Program Stage One applications, please use the link on the Funding Opportunities page during the open application period to access the application:

• Early Care Spaces
• Innovator Awards
• New & Experimental Works Program
• Open Spaces Program

To access your saved application:

1. Log into the GivingData portal
2. Click on Active Applications
3. Find the application you would like to access
4. Click Open Application

If your application is not listed, please submit a support ticket to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Grants Management & Learning Team.

Please contact the Arts, Education or Health program team directly if you are wondering how to answer a specific question on the application.

No. You must use GivingData, our online grants management portal, to apply for Kenneth Rainin Foundation grants.

To reopen your application, contact the Grants Management & Learning Team by selecting Grants Management Inquiry in our contact form. Your application can only be reopened while the application cycle is open. Once the grant application period has ended, your application cannot be reopened.

If you are awarded a grant, you will receive an email with the award documents and instructions on how to upload this information. If you need the award email to be resent, please submit a support ticket.

1. Log into the GivingData portal
2. Click Active Grants
3. Select the grant title
4. Click the applications tab

To view an application submitted before January 2021, please submit a support ticket to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Grants Management & Learning Team to request a copy.

1. Log into the GivingData portal
2. Click Active Applications
3. Find the application you would like to access and select “Open Application”

If your application is not listed, please submit a support ticket to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Grants Management & Learning Team.

First, check your grant agreement letter. If reporting is required, the due dates and reporting types are listed. If you do have reports due in GivingData, you can access your reports with the following steps. We typically open reports 30 days before the due date, but please submit a support ticket to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Grants Management & Learning Team if you’d like them opened sooner.

1. Log into the GivingData portal
2. Click Active Grants
3. Select the grant title
4. Click the Reports tab

Innovator Awards grantees, please note that your reports are submitted outside of the GivingData portal. Output and outcome data is Researchfish and your financial report are emailed directly to Grants Management & Learning. You will received emailed instructions.