Your board needs numbers it can trust and act on. We build them.
Nonprofit and community boards are made of volunteers with day jobs. We give them budgets, program costs and monthly reviews that explain the options and the cash impact clearly, and we keep the organization ready for its audit.
WHERE WE HELP
Organizations that answer to a board and to their community.
The budget takes three meetings
The board cannot approve the budget because the assumptions and trade-offs are not clear.
Grant and program costs are unclear
Funders ask for the true cost of a program, and indirect costs are not allocated in a way you can defend.
The audit is a scramble
Year-end means weeks of reconstructing schedules and answering auditor requests.
A venue or event has to pay for itself
Leadership needs to understand the economics of a facility, event or season before committing to it.
Systems do not talk to each other
Donor, pledge and fund accounting systems produce different answers to the same question.
Leadership changed
A finance director or treasurer has left and the board needs continuity while a replacement is found.
WHAT WE DELIVER
Operating and capital budgets
Budgets built around clear assumptions, with options a finance committee can compare in one meeting.
Board packets
Monthly cash and operating reviews written for volunteer board members, delivered on schedule.
Grant and program costing
Direct and indirect cost allocation that supports grant budgets, reporting and funder conversations.
Audit readiness
Reconciliations, schedules and documentation prepared through the year so the audit goes smoothly. We prepare for the audit; we do not perform it.
Event and venue economics
Cost, revenue and break-even analysis for facilities, events and seasons, including arrangements with third-party operators.
Systems and fund accounting
Donor, pledge and fund accounting structures that reconcile and report consistently.
HOW AN ENGAGEMENT WORKS
Prove the value first. Commit later, if at all.
Assessment
We start with a focused review of your numbers, systems and the decision in front of you, and we tell you plainly what we would do and what it would take.
Project-based retainer
Work begins as a defined project or a modest retainer with monthly deliverables, so you see the value in your own numbers before any long-term commitment.
Ongoing support
Clients who continue do so on terms that fit the engagement, often month to month for businesses, because the work stays useful.
THE DECISION SUPPORT DISCIPLINE
Program costing and venue economics are cost accounting by another name. The same methods hospitals use to cost a service line tell a nonprofit what a program or an event truly costs.
Give your board numbers it can act on.
Tell us about your organization and what your board is asking for. We will respond with how we would help.