Transforming Communities
Through Data
Community foundations face complex choices every day. The Community Benchmarking Tool helps you allocate funds with confidence, using insights directly from the people you serve.
What is the Community Benchmarking Tool?
The Community Benchmarking Tool is a technology designed to ease how local leaders work. It provides powerful benchmarking tools, such as surveys, detailed reports, and visualizations, that help communities assess progress and inform strategic investments.
More than a data platform, it connects leaders within and across communities, creating opportunities to learn from one another’s work, share proven tools and templates, and collaborate to strengthen community development efforts.
By combining local insight with peer knowledge, the tool supports foundations in making smarter decisions and driving lasting change.
Key Metrics
Real Communities. Real Progress.
Across towns and counties of all sizes, the Community Benchmarking Tool is delivering tangible results. More than 12,000 residents have participated in surveys to help their community leaders make better-informed decisions, and their voices are making a difference.
The insights gathered are rooted in the lived experiences of people on the ground, and have helped direct more than $25 million in funding to areas of real need. Communities are growing stronger, foundations are more confident in their decisions, and residents are seeing the results.
Empower Your Foundation To Fund What Matters Most.
The Community Benchmarking Tool provides a comprehensive solution for community foundations to gather,
analyze, and act on resident input.
The Challenge
Community foundations work hard to serve their residents, but without comprehensive data, it can be difficult to know which investments will create the biggest impact. Traditional methods often rely on assumptions, missing critical insights and the diverse voices that make up a community.
Our Solution
Our Community Benchmarking Tool removes the guesswork from decision-making. Our survey platform gathers real-time input from residents, delivering rich, actionable data to help you identify priorities, allocate resources efficiently, and measure long-term impact. With transparent reporting and built-in accountability, you can make informed funding decisions that drive real change.
Invest Smarter
Build capacity and create positive change today with the Community Benchmarking Tool.
See the Tool in Action
Discover how local voices are shaping decisions, guiding investments, and helping foundations make a measurable difference in the lives of the people they serve.
Community Benchmarking Tool
Learn how it works
Partner Communities
Explore our network of community foundations using data-driven approaches to understand and address local needs.
“The insights we gained from the survey helped us direct funds where they’re needed most.”