A Shared Calendar for Your Foundation
Grant deadlines, board meetings, site visits, reporting periods — synced to every stakeholder's phone. No app to download. No accounts to manage.
Create Your Foundation Calendar — FreeSound familiar?
It's Friday afternoon. A grantee calls in a panic — they missed the quarterly report deadline that passed yesterday. The date was in the award letter they received six months ago, and in an email reminder that went to their spam folder.
Your board retreat is next week. Two trustees just realized they have conflicts because nobody put the date on their personal calendars. They saw the email back in January, meant to add it, and forgot. Now you're scrambling to find a new date that works for everyone.
A program officer spends Monday morning answering the same question from four different grantees: "When is the next grant cycle opening?" The timeline is on the website, but nobody remembers to check it.
How it works for foundations
Add your foundation dates
Enter grant deadlines, board meetings, site visits, reporting periods — anything stakeholders need to know. Takes 30 seconds each.
Share with stakeholders
Send the link to grantees, board members, and staff. They tap once to subscribe. No login, no app.
Dates appear on every phone
Grant deadlines and events show up in their calendar app — Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook — alongside their own schedule.
No more missed deadlines or confused grantees. Start your foundation calendar for free.
Get Started FreePerfect for every foundation date
Here's what foundations typically put on their shared calendar:
What this looks like in practice
Rebecca, the grants manager, logs into iCalFeed the first week of January. She adds every deadline for the year — LOI windows, application periods, report due dates, board meetings. It takes about 25 minutes and saves hundreds of emails over the next 12 months.
James, a grantee running a literacy program, checks his phone on a Sunday night while planning his week. He sees "Q1 Report Due — Community Foundation" on March 15th, right after his staff meeting. He makes a mental note to pull the data this week. No email to search for, no website to visit.
In April, the foundation pushes back the summer grant cycle by two weeks because of a board scheduling change. The program director updates the dates in the dashboard. Every grantee and board member sees the new dates on their phone by morning. No mass email, no confusion.
How iCalFeed compares
vs. Award letters and PDFs
Grantees file them away and forget the deadlines buried on page four.
Every deadline lives on their phone calendar, impossible to overlook.
vs. Email reminders
Staff spends hours writing and sending reminders that end up in spam.
Dates sync automatically. No reminders to write, no spam filters to fight.
vs. Website grant calendar
Grantees have to remember to check it. They almost never do.
Deadlines come to them — right in the calendar they check every day.
vs. Spreadsheets and shared drives
Multiple versions, outdated links, and nobody knows which one is current.
One calendar, always current. Changes sync to everyone automatically.
Foundation calendar questions
Keep every grantee and board member on track
Start with the free plan — 1 calendar, 10 events. No credit card required.