Frequently asked questions.

Echo Impact helps organisations collect, analyse and communicate their impact. It manages your full grant portfolio - from application through acquittal - while building a continuously growing picture of your outcomes.

Most grant management tools handle applications and payments. Echo goes further: it tracks what actually happens after the grant is made. Our platform builds a continuous evidence base across years, not just grant cycles, using longitudinal tracking across 18 activity types. We also offer ecosystem mapping capabilities that no other grant management platform provides.

Our primary customers are Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs), philanthropic foundations, and impact organisations with $1M–$50M+ in annual disbursements. We also work with government grant programs and organisations running structured programs or cohorts, such as accelerators and fellowship programs.

Yes. Echo Impact is built and operated by Spacecubed, based in Perth, Western Australia. We understand the Australian philanthropic sector, including PAF compliance requirements, ATO reporting obligations, and the relationship-driven way organisations operate here.

Echo’s AI engine works across your data to generate plain-language summaries of applications, produce board-ready impact reports, highlight relevant content for assessors during review, and keep your portfolio data current by pulling from public records and third-party sources. AI features are fully opt-in and can be turned off at any time. You’re always in control.

Yes. You can onboard external assessors to review and score applications against your criteria through a dedicated assessor portal. They don’t need full system access, and every score and decision is logged for audit purposes.

Most platforms only capture data at the point of a grant. Echo tracks people, organisations, and outcomes across grant cycles, following 18 activity types over time, including employment changes, new ventures, publications, funding events, and awards. This longitudinal approach lets you see the real long-term impact of your funding, not just immediate outputs.

During onboarding, we migrate your existing data from spreadsheets, databases, or other systems into the platform. Our team handles the cleanup and structuring. Once live, new data flows in through applications, grantee submissions, automated tracking, and your team’s day-to-day use.

Yes. Echo Impact is built on enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure with role-based access controls, encrypted data storage, and full audit logging of every action taken in the system.

Yes. Our servers and data infrastructure are hosted in Australia, ensuring your data remains onshore and subject to Australian data protection laws.

You do. Your data belongs to your organisation. We are custodians, not owners.

Onboarding is a scoped consulting engagement where we migrate your existing data, configure your impact framework, set up your workflows, and train your team. We do the heavy lifting so you’re operational from day one. This can optionally include an impact logic model workshop.

We don’t hand over a login and disappear. Your team gets a dedicated relationship manager, regular check-ins, and direct access to our support team for day-to-day questions. As your organisation evolves with new funding streams, changing board priorities, and updated impact frameworks, we work alongside you to make sure the platform keeps pace. We think of ourselves as an extension of your team, not a helpdesk.

For ongoing impact reporting, yes. Echo generates publication-ready impact reports built on the data already in your platform, at a fraction of the cost of traditional evaluation firms.

Board reports, PAF compliance reports, impact summaries (monthly, quarterly, annual), longitudinal outcome reports, and publication-ready PDF reports for stakeholders and the public.

No. Echo’s reporting module generates board-ready summaries with one click, using live data from your platform. No more three-week scrambles before board meetings.