Applicant perception report

Survery methodology and comparative context

CEP surveyed PHF’s declined applicants in February and March of 2013. The median response rate for individual funders is 43 percent.

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Foundation Segmentation

Throughout this report, Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s survey results are compared to CEP’s broader dataset of more than 40,000 grantees built up over more than decade of grantee surveys of nearly 300 funders. The full list of participating funders can be found here.

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BEHIND THE NUMBERS

Applicants that were declined at the second stage rate significantly higher than those declined at the first stage for virtually all measures in the report.

Foundation and applicant characteristics

This table is intended to provide context to the Foundation in thinking about characteristics of declined applicants. The information is based on self‐reported data from declined applicants about the size and types of grants that they requested. Further detail is available in the appendix.

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Structural characteristics of declined applicants

This table is intended to provide context to the Foundation in thinking about its APR results relative to the structural characteristics of its declined applicants. The information is based on self reported data from declined applicants about the characteristics of their organisations.

Compared to the typical funder, PHF declined applicants are smaller organisations that have been
established for a shorter amount of time.

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Differences in grantee and declined applicant characteristics

This table is intended to provide context to the Foundation in thinking about differences in characteristics between declined applicants and grantees. The information is based on self reported data from declined applicants and grantees about their application and organisation characteristics.

PHF declined applicants request smaller grants, and are smaller organisations than grantees.

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