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Domain

Grant Discovery & Application

Structured grant opportunity tracking from discovery through council approval to application submission — covering Canadian federal (CCBF, ICIP, GICB) and provincial (OCIF, CWWF, OTF) programs with workflow-driven collaboration.

≤24hr

DB Refresh

100%

Reminders

≥10

Concurrent Editors

≤3s

Template Prefill

Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities

Ontario Compliant
MFIPPA Ready
AODA Accessible
Bilingual Support
Canadian Hosted
SOC 2 Aligned

Purpose & Scope

What this module owns

Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.

Owns

8

Delegated to

6

Application workflow stages & approval routing

workflow-automation

Deadline reminders & escalations

notification-engine

Program-specific application templates

forms-engine

Public-facing grant announcements

portal-framework

Application package storage & version control

document-records

Reusable content blocks (municipal profile)

cms-engine

These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.

Core Capabilities

What it does

3 capability groups comprising 8 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.

Searchable catalog of federal and provincial grant programs with eligibility criteria, cost-sharing ratios, intake windows, and deadline tracking.

Searchable Catalog

Search by administering agency, eligible applicants, expenditure categories, amounts, deadlines.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible and ineligible expenditure categories, max amounts, cost-sharing ratios per program.

Intake Windows

Track intake openings and closings with automated status updates.

Filtering

Filter by infrastructure category, amount range, deadline, and eligibility match.

Centralized calendar with intake openings, LOI/EOI deadlines, full application deadlines, and reporting dates — with automated reminders and Outlook integration.

Centralized Calendar

All grant deadlines in one calendar: intake, LOI, EOI, full application, reporting.

Automated Reminders

Reminders at 60, 30, 14, and 7 days before deadline.

Outlook Integration

Sync deadlines to Outlook/Exchange calendars.

Escalation

Overdue deadlines escalated to department heads and CAO.

Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.

Krutik Parikh

Creator of Civic

Data Model

Entity Architecture

5 entities with 5 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.

Entities

Select an entity to explore its fields and relationships

API Surface

Integration Endpoints

11 RESTful endpoints across 7 resource groups — plus 5 domain events for async integration.

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GET

/api/v1/grants/programs

List/search grant programs

POST

/api/v1/grants/programs

Add/update grant program

Ecosystem

Products that depend on this module

1 Civic products consume Grant Discovery & Application — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.

Technical Specifications

Performance, Compliance & Configuration

Program Database Refresh

Target≤ 24 hours from government posting

Deadline Reminder Delivery

Target100% within 1 hour of threshold

Concurrent Editors

Target≥ 10 simultaneous per application

Template Pre-Population

Target≤ 3 seconds

Historical Search

Target≤ 2 seconds

Retention

TargetPer program + municipal retention by-law

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

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