Every grant cycle, your community foundation moves endowment dollars into the neighborhoods that need them, and fundholders want to see exactly where that money landed. A printed stack of pages rarely carries that weight, and a flat PDF makes people scroll until they give up. A flipbook does the job, and it opens from one link.
Why the annual grant report belongs in a flipbook
Your annual grant report is the single document that proves stewardship. It lists every disbursement, names each grantee, and shows the community needs a fund was built to meet. When you hand a donor-advised fund holder a flat file, they scroll, lose their place, and skim past the story. A page-flip flipbook lets them turn spreads the way they would a printed impact report, on a phone, with no app and no download.
Flipbooks AI takes the report you already export and wraps it in that reading experience. Swap the PDF next quarter and the same link updates, so a fundholder who bookmarked last year's disbursement summary always lands on the current one.
What fundholders actually open it to see
- Disbursement totals: the plain number that says how much left the endowment this cycle and reached grantees.
- Grantee profiles: short pages naming each nonprofit and the community need it answered.
- Fund-level impact: a spread that ties one donor-advised fund to the outcomes it paid for.
- Legacy giving stories: a bequest honored, a named endowment growing, a family's giving continued.
- Stewardship notes: how the foundation protected and grew the principal while still funding this year's grants.
Documents this replaces
Beyond the annual grant report, foundations flip their donor guide, fund brochure, and impact report the same way. One workflow, one link per document, and one place fundholders return to instead of digging through email.
From board-approved PDF to a link you can send
- Export the finished annual grant report as a PDF, the same file your board approved.
- Upload it to Flipbooks AI and let it build the page-flip spreads.
- Copy the single share link and drop it into your donor stewardship email.
- Post the same link on the foundation site and inside the fundholder portal.
One link, sent once, that quietly updates every time a new grant cycle closes.
Because the link never changes, your development team stops re-sending attachments and fundholders stop hunting through inboxes for the latest philanthropy summary.
Embed the report on your foundation site
Drop the flipbook straight onto your grants page so visitors read it without leaving:
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Different funds want different framing. This table maps common fund types to the spread that lands hardest with the people who gave.
| Fund type | What the fundholder wants | Flipbook spread |
|---|
| Donor-advised fund | Where my recommendations went | Grantee grid with disbursement amounts |
| Scholarship endowment | Who received awards | Recipient profiles and school names |
| Field-of-interest fund | Progress on a cause | Before and after community outcome pages |
| Bequest and legacy gift | The name is honored | Memorial tribute and named-fund page |
For a structured starting point, the nonprofit annual report tool lays out grantee sections and disbursement tables, and the report flipbook creator handles the final page-flip build. Browse more use cases if you steward several document types across the year.
Keeping stewardship warm year round
A flipbook is not only a year-end artifact. Between grant cycles, refresh the same link with a mid-year disbursement note or a single grantee spotlight so fundholders feel the philanthropy continuing. Legacy giving conversations go easier when a prospective donor can flip through the impact their bequest would one day join.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can fundholders read the grant report without an account?
Yes. Anyone with the link opens the flipbook in a browser on any phone or laptop. No login, no app, no download, which matters when an older legacy-giving donor just wants to see where the endowment went.
Does the link change when we publish a new grant cycle?
No. You replace the PDF behind the same Flipbooks AI link, so every bookmark, portal embed, and stewardship email keeps pointing at the current annual grant report.
Can we tell whether donors actually opened the impact report?
Yes. You see how the flipbook is being viewed, which tells your development team which fundholders engaged with this cycle's disbursement story before a stewardship call.
Ready to show fundholders exactly where the endowment went? create your flipbook and send one link this grant cycle.
