I'm looking for a field that corresponds to the date an organization record was created.

I want to compare new grantees from year to year and am hoping to find a field that corresponds to the date the grantee's record was created. Or if someone can help me with an advanced search for this, I would be grateful.

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  • Hi Sheree

    This Organization Advanced Search will give you all the organizations created in 2021

    Organizations.Create_Date BETWEEN ‘2021-01-01’ AND ‘2021-12-31’

    There may be useful options depending upon how you want to compare the grantees.

    Cheers

    Justin

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  • Hi @Sheree Norton

    I can't take credit for this - because I'm pretty sure i picked this up on another community post last year, but this is an advanced search code that I have on a year-end data tab…. I have it displayed as a Table of information and also as a chart (we have coding for the type of charity in our database so the chart shows the number, per charity type in a bar chart. Run it under the Org records in advanced query for the year you want (you've reminded me I need to update it to this financial): - This will show you those that had successful applications (i.e granted)

    EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Requests r WHERE r.Grant_Fiscal_Year = 2021 AND r.Disposition = N'Approved' AND r.Organization_ID = Organizations.ID) AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Requests r WHERE r.Grant_Fiscal_Year <> 2021 AND r.Disposition = N'Approved' AND r.Organization_ID = Organizations.ID)

  • This is an awesome search for finding new organizations by year. Thank you. Next question. Is there a field for date of first grant? I know there is a date for the last grant made, but it would be nice to be able to pull the date and amount of the first grant made.

  • Hi Sheree
    There is a field you can display in a view - "Grant Year Span" - which will show the first and last year of any approved grants for that organisation.
    So if it was new in 2022, it would show 2022-2022 but if their first grant was in 2020 and the latest was this year it would show 2020-2022.
    You can use this field in mailmerge documents also, for example it can be useful for a proposal summary page used at a decision meeting. There is also an organization request history table field which gives useful info in a template.

    Back to views - take a look at the Organization fields which start with ‘Total’ - there are some handy ones available. You can also add a filter to these fields, for example you might want to know the total amount granted last year.

    Take care
    Kim

  • This is a good answer and I use this field all the time. Thanks.

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