AI Due Diligence & Assessment

Compliance, on every applicant. Without the 8-week wait.

Plinth runs the full US due diligence checklist for you — OFAC sanctions screening, 501(c)(3) verification, Form 990 analysis, and reputational news scans on every applicant. So your funding lands where it should and your foundation's reputation stays spotless.

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Riverside Community Fund

EIN 12-3456789 · Filed 2024

Due diligence complete

501(c)(3) verification

Verified · auto-summary attached

OFAC sanctions screening

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Form 990 financial review

Verified · auto-summary attached

NTEE alignment

Verified · auto-summary attached

Charity Navigator ratings

Verified · auto-summary attached

Reputational news scan

Verified · auto-summary attached

Pippin summary drafted · awaiting your review

4 min · vs. ~8 weeks manual

Sound familiar?

The risks every grants team carries.

  • Compliance shouldn't take 8 weeks.
  • Drowning in 990s, sanctions checks, and eligibility reviews?
  • Worried about where your money actually ends up?
  • One bad grant. One front-page story.
  • Your board will ask. Will you have the answer?

The full US checklist

Pippin auto-runs every check on every applicant.

Then scores against your fund criteria and drafts applicant feedback — ready for your team to review and send.

501(c)(3) verification

Confirm IRS tax-exempt status, EIN, and ruling year on every applicant.

OFAC sanctions screening

Run each organization against US sanctions and watch lists automatically.

Form 990 financial review

Pippin extracts and summarises the most recent 990 filing for every applicant.

NTEE alignment

Match grantees to their NTEE classification for portfolio-level reporting.

Charity Navigator ratings

Pull live Charity Navigator scores directly into every assessment.

Reputational news scan

Scan recent news for red flags before money leaves the foundation.

How it works

Human-in-the-loop, by design.

AI surfaces and summarises. Your team decides. Every decision stays with the people accountable for the money.

  1. 01

    Pippin runs the checks

    On every applicant, the full US due diligence checklist runs automatically — sanctions, 501(c)(3), 990, NTEE, Charity Navigator, and news scan.

  2. 02

    Pippin scores and summarises

    Each applicant is scored against your fund criteria and a clear, plain-English summary is drafted for your team.

  3. 03

    Your team decides

    Reviewers approve, query, or reject — with every source and finding linked back to the original record.

  4. 04

    Applicant feedback drafted

    Pippin drafts personalised feedback for every applicant — successful or not — ready for your team to send.

Setup

Live in 3 daysif your foundation manages under $50M in grants

Works alongside your stack

No rip-and-replace.

Plinth plugs into the systems you already use — bringing AI due diligence, assessment, and reporting to your data wherever it lives.

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Ready to take due diligence off your team's plate?

Book a demo with our team — we'll show you Pippin running a full US due diligence check live, on a real applicant.