OceanPeak

The Common Grant Application is a project of Oceanpeak, Inc., which is a privately held California corporation incorporated in May of 2007 and located in Santa Monica,California. The development of the CGA started in 2006 and entered initial production in October 2007. The concept of the CGA arose from our experience in the technology industry (co-founding and building a large communications software company that was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2000), our experience in the non-profit industry (founding a family foundation that is currently receiving over 600 grant applications a year and has made over $2.5 million of grants since its inception) and having children that recently applied to college using the Common App. The grant making process, for both grantmakers and grantseekers, can be very complicated, inefficient, expensive and time consuming.

The Common Grant Application is a Web-based service developed to provide a simple, efficient and inexpensive means for non-profit grantmakers to receive, review, track and manage online grant applications and proposals from non-profit grantseekers. This service is available to all grantseekers and all grantmakers (including groups, associations and coalitions of grantmakers).

Grantseekers are able to review the background and interests of grantmakers; manage their contact, organization background, program and background information; submit, track and manage applications to grantmakers; and collaborate among each other. Grantmakers are able to review the background and activities of grantseekers; receive, track and manage applications; collaborate among each other; export applications and other reports into their own business information systems as needed.