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Revised 06/26/2026

 

 

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This Knowledge Article explains how to add custom fields to the GOfund “Recommend a Grant” form. Adding custom questions is not required, but it is an available feature if you would like to expand the out-of-the-box recommendation form.
 
GOfund Grant Recommendations utilize a hybrid form. This means the Grant Recommendation form a GOfund user fills out in the GOfund UI can utilize custom questions combined with fields/settings set in GOfund Settings. For more information on the field set in GOfund Settings, please see GOfund Settings - Grant Recommendations Tab

The custom form for recommending a grant is separate from the custom form for recommending an interfund grant, as we anticipate you may want different questions on each. Custom questions can be set up through the Custom Organization Form Editor and/or the Custom Interfund Form Editor.

  Form Definition Fields

A form definition is a string of code that represents forms that you create in Form Editor (more information below). Form Definition fields will autofill/update when you create or modify a form.

You can find the Form Definition fields on the Internal tab of GOfund Settings. If you have built a custom Grant Recommendation Custom Org or Custom Interfund form, the fields will contain .json files which represent the custom form(s).

*Please note that if these fields contain data, the custom form will render on the GOfund recommend a grant page. If you choose to remove 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 this version will be altered.*

 

  Build a Custom Grant Recommendation Form

Navigate to GOfund Settings in the Tools area. From GOfund Settings, select the Grant Recommendations tab. At the bottom of the page, you will find the Recommend a Grant Form Editor section.

 

Choose the appropriate Form Editor (depending on whether you want to create a custom Organization Grant Recommendation form, or a custom Interfund Recommendation Form. Regardless of the 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 adding questions to the form, see the GOapply Simple Form Builder Knowledge Article.

 

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 recommended grant form fields.

 

 

 

   Grant Recommendation Submission PDFs

 

Once the user submits the recommended grant form, the PDF will be rendered with the akoyaGO custom fields on page 1 and any custom form fields on page 2. For more information on records created in akoyaGO upon submission of a grant recommendation, please see Processing Requests, Interfunds, and Scheduled Distributions Created through GOfund