The Financial Sustainability Assessment focuses on helping nonprofit leaders understand their true operating performance, their ability to handle risk and what it really cost to sustain the organization.
Our financial analysis will help uncover not only the organization's programmatic revenue needs but also identify the organizations capacity, liquidity and reserves needs so leadership can make an informed decision about how best to ensure financial sustainability and impact.
Finance is about decision making. What financial data are you using to help drive decisions? Typically, most of the financial data we have available is designed for tax and compliance purposes not for strategic decision making. What you and your board need to know is not the same as what the IRS or state attorney general needs to know. To get to the key pieces of data that matter to your financial sustainability, you have to know where to look on your financials and understand what those numbers mean.
Our work is focused on providing the information necessary to address three key questions of sustainability:
