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Your impact. Always on.

Melon is a platform that helps you measure, verify and show your impact.

Seeking funding? Melon is the impact platform that actually works. It helps you measure, verify and show your impact, and gives you access to a wide network of funders (philanthropists and impact investors) on our Funders Gallery.

Melon. ASSURED
The Funder Network

The platform Australia's best funders trust.

When you publish your impact through Melon, you're not just measuring. You're opening the door to the most sophisticated grantmakers.

Every number audited. Every story verified. Every outcome ready for funder review.

$4.5B+
in philanthropic capital across Melon's funder network

The dashboard you'll embed on every funding application.

Hard metrics, soft measures, and societal value, verified, live, and ready to share with anyone you need to convince.

CUSTOM IMPACT
Live

SOCIETAL VALUE DELIVERED

Hard metrics, soft measures, and impact stories in one verified display. Updated quarterly or in real time.

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Tired of impact reports nobody reads?

The AAA+ framework makes your work credible, comparable, and impossible for funders to ignore.

Audit

Independent review of your impact data, methods, and claims. Hard metrics and soft measures, verified together.

  • Data quality review across all metric types
  • Story and qualitative data processing with sentiment analysis
  • Methodology assessment for hard and soft measures
  • Transparent audit trail with full ledger

Assurance

Ongoing verification that your numbers are credible and defensible. Melon Assured badge when your data passes review.

  • Verification cycles - quarterly or live, your choice
  • Melon Assured badge for verified organisations
  • Portfolio-level assurance across multiple clients or programs
  • Board and funder-ready reporting with SDG alignment

Automation

AI-powered setup, automated data collection, and live dashboards. From CSV upload to verified display in minutes, not months.

  • Magic Setup: upload a CSV and AI builds your framework
  • Handles all data collection: surveys, uploads, integrations
  • Portfolio dashboards across multiple programs or partners
  • Live impact displays embeddable on any website

+ World-Class and Accessible

An affordable process underpinned by world-class monitoring, evaluation and learning. Quarterly cycles or live updates, your choice. Rigorous impact measurement for the organisations that need it most.

How It Works

An optional design layer if you need it, then AI-powered setup and always-on measurement. Quarterly cycles or live updates.

Step 0

Design

For organisations that have not yet locked in their outcome metrics.

  • Theory of change and outcome framework design
  • Hard metric and soft measure selection from your existing data
  • Data collection planning: surveys, uploads, integrations
  • Testing and refinement before anything goes live
Step 1

Setup

Upload a CSV or connect your data and AI builds your measurement framework. Hard metrics, soft measures, and impact stories configured together.

  • Magic Setup: AI generates your framework from a single data upload
  • Hard metrics and soft measures calculated from your existing data
  • Story processing with sentiment analysis and theme extraction
  • Cost-benefit analysis with evidence-based proxy values and SDG mapping
  • First Melon display built and ready to embed
Step 2

Always On

Your Melon stays current. Quarterly review cycles or live data sync, with verification built in.

  • Audit, Assurance and Automation running on your schedule
  • All data collection handled: CSV uploads, surveys, form responses, live integrations
  • Portfolio dashboards if you manage multiple programs or partners
  • Melon Assured verification renewed each cycle
  • Cost-benefit and SDG alignment refreshed automatically

What You Get Every Cycle

Hard Metrics and Soft Measures

Quantitative data, qualitative stories, and sentiment analysis together in one verified view.

Cost-Benefit and SDG Alignment

Evidence-based proxy values mapping your outcomes to social return and UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Updated Metrics and Stories

Refreshed numbers, new impact stories processed, sentiment tracked over time.

Live Display and Portal

Your Melon display refreshed, plus a client portal for stakeholders to view verified data any time.

Impact Report

Narrative, data, and visuals ready for Boards, Funders, and partner organisations.

Melon Assured Verification

Independent verification of your data quality, methodology, and claims. Badge renewed each cycle.

Turn your impact into a live story.

Melon turns your hard metrics, soft measures, and impact stories into a verified live display. Boards, Funders and Communities can see your impact any time, not just when you publish a report.

Hard metrics and soft measures, together

Quantitative data and qualitative stories processed, verified, and displayed side by side.

All data collection handled

CSV uploads, survey responses, form data, and live integrations. You bring the data however it comes.

Portfolio view across programs

One dashboard for the whole organisation, with drill-down into individual programs, partners, or regions.

Verified and always current

Melon Assured verification badge. Updated quarterly or live. Your impact doesn't go dark between reports.

One platform · Three ways in

Built for every stage of your impact journey.

Start where you are. Grow when you're ready.

Melon Lite

The Easiest Way In

For small NFPs, impact startups and social enterprises (under 5 people) who need a verified dashboard now to unlock funding.

$750 one-off · 90 days
  • Your first Melon dashboard, built and verified
  • 90 days live on the Melon Funders Gallery
  • Core sector model with key metrics and SROI proxies
  • Story capture and sentiment processing
  • Continue on an affordable subscription after 90 days
Get started on Melon Lite ↓
Melon Pro

The Full Platform

For small-to-medium NFPs, social enterprises and funded projects that need deeper measurement, richer storytelling and ongoing assurance.

Subscription tailored to your org
  • Everything in Melon Lite
  • Full measurement framework with quarterly assurance cycles
  • Advanced story processing and sentiment tracking over time
  • Evidence-based SROI and UN SDG mapping
  • Live, always-on dashboard with ongoing updates
  • Priority support
Book a discovery call →
Melon Enterprise

Portfolio-Grade

For larger NFPs, funders and intermediaries running portfolios across multiple programs, partners or regions, where data security and scale matter as much as measurement.

Bespoke portfolio-level engagement
  • Everything in Melon Pro
  • Portfolio dashboards across programs, partners and regions
  • Your own private, enterprise-grade secure database, isolated, encrypted, and under your control
  • Custom sector models and bespoke metrics
  • Multi-tenant access with role-based permissions
  • Dedicated account lead and onboarding
  • Service-level agreement
Talk to our team →

Starting with Melon Lite? Get your first dashboard below.

The Easiest Way In

Get your first Melon dashboard.

Build your first dashboard, go live on our Funders Gallery for 90 days.

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Enter your ABN

We look up your organisation through the Australian Business Register and auto-detect your sector model.

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Get your dashboard

A real Melon dashboard with your sector framework, measurement areas, and SDG alignment.

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Listed for 90 days

Live on the Melon Funders Gallery, visible to every funder browsing the platform.

$750 One-Off
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Unverified, but on the funders page. Upgrade to verify your data and activate live measurement after 90 days.

Ready to be found by the right funders?

Book a short discovery call and we'll review your current impact work, show you a live Melon example, and outline a tailored approach. Measure. Verify. Show.

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