Tangicloud Fundamentals for nonprofits

Grant Management That Lives in Your Business Central Ledger

Base Business Central doesn’t come with grant or fund tracking. Fundamentals adds it, so your grants, restricted funds, budgets, and reports live in the same system as your books.

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The gap

Grant management doesn't come in base Business Central

Business Central is a strong accounting platform, but out of the box it can’t do three things grant-funded organizations need. Most fill the gap with spreadsheets or a separate grant tool. Fundamentals is grant accounting software for nonprofits that closes the gap inside your ledger.

No tie to the grant

Revenue and expenses can’t be tied to a specific grant, so grant balances end up living in spreadsheets.

Restrictions tracked elsewhere

What a funder restricted sits outside the ledger, in a separate tool that never quite matches your books.

Reporting back is manual

Showing a funder how the money was spent means pulling numbers together outside Business Central.

Fundamentals closes the gap inside Business Central.

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Before and after

What changes when grants live in your ledger

The same four jobs, done two ways. Flip the switch to compare.

  • Grant balancesKept in spreadsheets and reconciled to the ledger by hand.
  • RestrictionsTracked in a separate tool that never quite matches your books.
  • Funder reportsEvery funder report turns into a project.
  • Audit questionsReceipts and backup live in shared drives.
  • Grant balancesEach grant’s budget against actuals in real time, in Business Central.
  • RestrictionsGrant periods, restrictions and releases kept in one place.
  • Funder reportsFunder and board reports run straight from the ledger.
  • Audit questionsReceipts attached to the transaction, with drill-down from any balance.

Grant tracking

Grant tracking software for nonprofits that outgrow spreadsheets

A spreadsheet is fine when you manage a single award. Once you’re juggling two or three grants with different budgets, periods, and reporting rules, manual tracking starts to break down: numbers drift from the ledger, month-end takes longer, and every funder report turns into a project.

Fundamentals gives you grant tracking software built for nonprofits, right where your books already are:

Track each grant’s budget against actuals in real time.

Allocate shared costs across grants and programs.

Keep grant periods, restrictions, and releases in one place.

Run funder and board reports straight from the ledger.

Nonprofit finance manager reviewing grant budget charts on a laptop

Restricted funds

Restricted fund accounting for temporary and permanent restrictions

Accounting guidance now calls these net assets with donor restrictions, but most finance teams still think in temporarily and permanently restricted funds. Fundamentals works the way your team does.

Temporarily restricted: track funds restricted by purpose or time and record releases when conditions are met, with a clear trail from gift to release.

Permanently restricted: keep endowments separate from spendable balances while still reporting on the income they generate.

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Audit support

Audit support, without the scramble

When auditors ask how a grant dollar was spent, you shouldn’t have to dig through shared drives. With Fundamentals you can:

Documents on the transaction

Attach receipts and supporting documents directly to transactions.

Drill down in real time

Drill from a general ledger balance into the underlying transaction in real time.

Audit trails and approvals

Rely on built-in audit trails and approval workflows.

What clients say

Sony Devis
“One of the best features (not found with other systems during our search) is the comprehensive labor allocations function that includes the ability to encumber future distributions to funds/projects. This gives us a better view of how funds are spent and allocated in future periods.”
Sony Devis
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Seth Maristuen
“As a rapidly growing non-profit, we needed a modern fund accounting system to handle our complexities and streamline processes… We’re now closing periods faster, with less manual work, and reporting with more confidence than ever.”
Seth Maristuen
National Forest Foundation

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    FAQ

    Frequently asked questions

    Quick answers about grant and restricted fund tracking in Business Central. Want to see it with your own grants?

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    No. Base Business Central doesn’t include grant or fund functionality. Fundamentals is the extension that adds grant management, fund accounting, restrictions and releases, and nonprofit reporting inside Business Central.

    Most organizations hit the wall at two or three grants. Past that point, separate budgets, grant periods, and funder reporting rules make manual reconciliation slow and easy to get wrong.

    Yes. You can track funds restricted by purpose or time, record releases when conditions are met, and keep permanently restricted funds separate from spendable balances, all in the same ledger.

    You can attach receipts and supporting documents to transactions and drill from the general ledger straight into the underlying entry in real time, so you can show auditors exactly how grant dollars were spent.

    No. Fundamentals works inside Business Central, so reconciliation, budget tracking, financial reporting, and grant data live in one system instead of being synced between two.

    Yes. Fundamentals serves both nonprofits and governments, including FASB and GASB reporting. See Tangicloud for Governments for more.