Funding Map
Fund mode is for philanthropies. You record the areas your organization supports — with the grant name, the years, why you support it, and a few tags — and in return you see every other funder's declared footprint on the same map. It is built for collectives such as Funders of the Amazon Basin (FAB), where the useful question is not only "who is funded here?" but "who else is already working on this, and on what?".
Fund mode appears in the header mode menu as Fund (Show where you fund and see what other funders support), and only for accounts with the funding permission. That permission is granted by Atlas administrators, so ask an administrator to enable it for your organization's accounts.
What is Visible to Whom
Every grant is in one of two states:
| State | Who can see it |
|---|---|
| Draft | Only you. |
| Visible to funders | Every Atlas account holding the funding permission. |
Nothing in Fund mode appears on the public Explore map, and there is no anonymous access to it. A grant stays a draft until you deliberately publish it, so you can assemble a site list across several sessions before anyone else sees it.
The Two Lenses
The Fund toolbar has two buttons, matching the two things you come here to do:
- Grants — create and edit your own records
- Funding map — read the shared layer and filter it
Recording a Grant (Grants)
Choose New grant and fill in:
- Organization — the philanthropy shown on the map. It defaults to the organization on your profile but stays editable, so one login can report under more than one window.
- Grant name and start / end year. Years can be in the future; leave either blank if you do not have it.
- Grantee — who the funds go towards.
- Description — a short note other funders will read when they click a polygon.
- Tags — a shared vocabulary in two groups: the context (Indigenous territories, local communities, protected areas, landscape or corridor) and the type of support (governance and rights, management and planning, monitoring and enforcement, livelihoods, capacity, science, policy, core funding). Tags are what other funders filter by, which is why they are a fixed list rather than free text.
Adding Sites
With a grant open, click any polygon on the map to add it. Sites are listed under the form; click a name to fly to it, or use the × to drop it.
Importing from a Portfolio
If you already assembled the areas as a portfolio in Assess mode, choose it under Import from portfolio and press Sync now to copy its areas across. You can import from any portfolio you own or that has been shared with you, and this does not require assessment permissions.
Turn on Keep in sync and areas added to that portfolio later are added to this grant too. The link is deliberately one-directional and additive:
- Fund mode never writes back to a portfolio.
- Removing an area from the portfolio does not remove it from the grant.
The reasoning is that a portfolio is a working list, while a declared grant site is a statement of record. Use Unlink to break the connection; the sites already imported stay.
Publishing
The Visibility control switches a grant between Draft and Visible to funders. In the grant list, the eye icon does the same thing without opening the form.
Reading the Shared Layer (Funding map)
The funding map keeps every area covered by the matching grants in its normal color and greys out the rest, so the funded set reads at a glance. Below the map summary is the list of matching grants, each with its organization, years, purpose, and tags; selecting one accents its areas in green.
Click any polygon and the panel shows Funding here: one row per grant covering that area, with the organization, grant, years, purpose, and tags. Several philanthropies on one polygon is the normal case, which is why overlap appears as a stack of rows rather than recoloring the polygon to a single organization.
Filters
The sliders icon in the Fund toolbar opens the filters:
- Only my organization — narrow to your own records.
- Grant — free text over grant and organization names.
- Active in year — a grant matches when its span covers that year, so a 2022–2026 grant appears for any year in that range. A missing end year matches every year from the start onwards.
- Organizations — tick the philanthropies to include. Only names present in the visible grants are listed.
- Tags — a grant matches if it carries any of the ticked tags.
What Fund Mode Does Not Do
Amounts and budgets are out of scope, as are implementer or grantee names, per-area tagging, and any public visibility on Explore. The mode answers who supports what, where, and why — not how much.