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Grants Expertise Management System (GEMS) is your most current grants database plus so much more. In fact, there is no alternative on the market. Not only will it save hundreds of research hours (a part-time salary at least), it’s your one source of truth for grant funding.  

GEMS provides: 

  • Unparalleled breadth: The most comprehensive funding data in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia, encompassing local, regional and central government grants, philanthropic funders, corporate foundations, plus international funders who grant to New Zealand based projects and those who grant to New Zealand based organisations delivering projects offshore.  
  • Single source of truth: A customised grants calendar tailored to what you do and where you do it, GEMS also allows you to streamline your grants program with application tracking right down to funder report due dates, is a central place to store grant funding history, and offers built-in best practice tools to track and monitor your grants progress over time.    
  • Actionable insights: GEMS Funding Insights (GEMS FI) unlocks the power of GEMS data, providing comprehensive funding analysis and data-driven budget forecasting, all while offering increased visibility to funders. 

Our benchmarking data tells us: 

  • Average grant application success rate for GEMS users = 50%  
  • Average total value of grant submissions in the last financial year was $1,887,593  
  • Median return on investment of grants program is 430%