Revised: 9/25/2025
GOfund Custom Recommend a Grant Form
Prerequisites
1. akoyaGO Administrator to access and edit GOfund Settings in the Tools area
2. Member of the GOmanager group to launch Form Builder
This knowledge article will teach you how to add custom fields to the GOfund recommend a grant form.
Things to know:
1. GOfund Recommend a Grant utilizes a hybrid form. This means the Recommend a Grant form that a GOfund user fills out in the GOfund UI can utilize a combination of custom questions combined with the fields set in GOfund Settings. Custom questions can be set up through the Custom Organization Form Editor/Custom Interfund Form Editor. Please note it is not required to add custom questions in the GOmanager Form Builder.
2. The custom form for recommending a grant is separate from the custom form to recommend an interfund grant, as we anticipate you may want different fields on each form.
Form Definition fields
Two new fields have been added to the Internal tab of GOfund Settings to capture the data from the custom grant recommendation form(s). These are the .json files which represents the custom form.
*Please note that if these fields contain data, the custom form will render on the GOfund recommend a grant page. If you choose to to get rid of your custom form and revert back to the standard Grant Recommendation for either orgs or interfunds, you can delete the corresponding .json files. This version of the form will not be retained after deletion but no prior submissions using that version of the form will be altered.*
Build your custom form
Step 1: GOfund Settings
Navigate to GOfund Settings in the Tools workspace. Then navigate to the recommend a grant form tab. There, at the bottom of the page, you will find the Recommend a Grant Form Editor and the Recommend an Interfund Grant Form Editor.
Step 2: Launch Form Editor
Regardless of which form editor you choose, the experience will be largely the same.
Launching the form editor will open the simple form editor. For more information on simple form builder see the GOapply Simple Form Builder knowledge article.
Step 3: Add fields
Drag and drop fields into the form. All Request fields (including custom) are available in the toolbox on the left side of the screen.
Misc.
The fields under Misc. are unmapped. These are to collect information that you do not need to map to the Request. These fields will appear on the PDF that is generated after the user submits the recommendation.
Request
The fields under Request are mapped to Request. They will populate information on the Request that the recommender inputs in the form.
Important: The custom fields that you add to the form will appear below the Grant Type field and above the 'File Upload' field.
Please note that if you input a Survey Title/Description or a Page Title/Description, those will also appear below the akoyaGO out-of-the-box recommend a grant form fields.
Grant Recommendation Submission PDFs
Once the user submits the recommend a grant form, the PDF will be rendered with the akoyaGO custom fields on page 1 and any custom form fields on page 2.