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
Nothing gets redesigned here. You start from the file your board already signed off on.
- Export the approved report. Save the finished annual grant report as a PDF, the same file your board approved this cycle.
- Upload it to build the spreads. Drop the PDF into Flipbooks AI and it becomes a page-flip report a fundholder can turn on a phone.
- Copy the single share link. Paste it into your donor stewardship email so fundholders reach the report in one tap.
- Post it where fundholders already look. Put the same link on the foundation site and inside the fundholder portal.
- Swap the PDF next cycle. When the new grant cycle closes, replace the file and every saved bookmark shows the current report.
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.
Can we keep one fund's report private to its donor family?
Yes. Put a password on that flipbook and only the people you send it to can open it. That suits a family bequest summary or a scholarship endowment recap you would rather not publish beside the public annual report.
Will long disbursement tables stay readable on a phone?
They will. Pages render at full size and a reader can pinch to zoom, so a grantee list with dollar amounts beside it stays legible. Export the source PDF at print quality and the small type in a fund table holds up.
Can we embed the report on our grants page?
Yes. Paste the embed snippet into the grants page and visitors flip the report without leaving your site. The embed follows the same flipbook, so when you swap the PDF after a grant cycle closes the page updates on its own.
Do we need a separate flipbook for each donor-advised fund?
Only when the framing differs. Most foundations publish one annual grant report for everyone, then build short fund level flipbooks for the largest donor-advised funds so a family sees the grants their own recommendations paid for.
Can a fundholder read it on a tablet during a stewardship visit?
Yes. The flipbook opens in the browser on a tablet, so a gift officer can hand the device across the table and let a donor turn the spreads themselves. Nothing installs and no account is needed just to look.
What if the board approves a correction after we publish?
Fix the PDF and upload it again behind the same link. Every stewardship email, portal embed, and bookmark you already sent keeps working, so a corrected grantee name or disbursement total reaches everyone without a second announcement.
Does the finished grant report carry a watermark?
Not on a paid plan. The report shows only the design your communications team laid out, which matters when the same document doubles as a leave behind in a legacy giving or major gift conversation.
Ready to show fundholders exactly where the endowment went? create your flipbook and send one link this grant cycle.
