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Only if you hold stock. Then it is all here.

A distribution hub with a record behind it.

Most foundations fund warehouses rather than run them. If your foundation or association operates a regional hub or an in-kind program, Warehouse gives it receiving, stock, holds and agency ordering. If it does not, this page shows what your grantees' records can look like.

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What Warehouse is

Foundations and associations can create a warehouse the same way a nonprofit does. It is most useful when you hold donated goods for member or grantee organizations to draw from. Otherwise it is useful context for what a documented warehouse operation looks like.

What you can do

Everything below is a screen or a field in the product, not a roadmap item.

Setup

Create a warehouse, collection point or POD with its address and county, then add zones and items. A nonprofit can run more than one site.

Team

Invite staff and give each a role such as Warehouse Manager, Receiver, Order Desk, Picker, Driver or Food Safety Officer. Staff sign in separately and see only what their role allows.

Receive

Open a receipt for each delivery and record the lines. Cold-chain items go on hold automatically, and food needs an expiry date before it can be made available.

Sort

Take a mixed pallet apart into new pallets, and log rejects by unit count so nothing disappears between the dock and the shelf.

Put away & Move

Put each pallet in a zone that matches its storage class, frozen to freezer and refrigerated to cooler, or move a pallet to another of your own warehouses.

Stock explorer

See what is on hand and where, by site, zone and pallet, with stock by age so expiring goods go out first.

Holds & recalls

Place a hold for temperature, recall, damage, expiry or inspection, release it later, and trace a recalled item to everywhere it went.

Requests

Partner agencies shop for the items they are eligible for, the order desk approves, and the request moves through allocation, picking and loading.

Shipments

Stage, load and dispatch with a bill of lading, then confirm delivery, or mark an order ready for pickup at the dock.

Operations

Switch on disaster mode with an activation wizard, operational periods, objectives and ICS forms, and share a read-only view with an emergency operations center.

Volunteer

Run the roster, let volunteers check in and out at a kiosk after the safety message, and have a certifier sign off the hours.

Reports and Chain of custody

Throughput, stock by age, holds and operation history, backed by an append-only record of every inventory-affecting action.

How it runs

01

Create your first warehouse

Add the site with its address and county, then its zones and the items you handle.

02

Add your team and partners

Give each staff member a role, and invite partner agencies by email. An agency that accepts waits for the order desk to approve it.

03

Receive, sort and put away

Open a receipt for the truck, record the lines, sort mixed pallets and put every pallet in the right zone.

04

Fill orders and ship

Approve agency requests, allocate stock, pick, load, dispatch and confirm delivery.

Why this matters for foundations

The problem

A hub that serves member organizations often runs on shared spreadsheets and email threads, which is hard to audit and impossible to hand over.

What the platform does

Members become partner agencies who shop and order through the module. Stock, holds and shipments sit on one ledger.

What leadership sees

What came in, what went out and to whom, with a record under each line.

Is this the right fit?

Honest answer first.

Use ImpactMatrix when

Your foundation or association stores goods centrally and distributes them to members or grantees.

Use something else when

You fund food banks and relief groups without holding stock. Distribution reports from Gifts in Kind give you the funder-side view.

Where this sits in the chain

Every posted need travels the same path. Follow it forward or back.

DashboardWarehouse overviewGifts in KindShipmentDeliveries

Questions

Is Warehouse a full warehouse management system?

It is built for food banks and disaster relief warehouses: receiving, sorting, put away by zone, stock, holds and recalls, agency orders, picking and loading. Shipment remains the movement record between organizations, and Warehouse does not replace your accounting system.

Who can use Warehouse?

An organization creates its warehouses from the dashboard and invites staff who sign in with their own role. Partner agencies join a food bank's warehouse through an emailed invite, and government or EOC users can be given read-only access to a disaster operation.

What does disaster mode do?

Operations activates ICS-style structure for a response: states from Watch to Closed, operational periods with objectives, a roster, forms such as ICS 201, 209, 213RR and 214, situation reports and a demobilization checklist. Closing an operation needs a second approval.

Do we need Warehouse to see grantee impact?

No. Warehouse is for organizations that store goods. Funders usually get their evidence from confirmed deliveries and distribution reports.

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