The mission deserves a finance function as serious as the work.
Fractional CFO leadership for nonprofits navigating fund accounting, grant compliance, and board-level financial transparency.
- Revenue is restricted in ways your reporting does not make clear.
- Grant reporting eats time nobody has, and audit season is a scramble.
- Your board wants confidence in the numbers, and the finance committee meeting runs long without reaching a decision.
What is different about nonprofit finance
Nonprofit finance runs on a different rulebook. Fund accounting, restricted versus unrestricted revenue, Form 990, grant reporting, and audit preparation each carry rules a for-profit controller will not know by instinct.
Most fractional CFO firms get this wrong because they bring for-profit habits to a different game. We do not.
What we build
- Board-ready financial packages a finance committee can act on.
- Grant-by-grant profitability views, so you know which programs the funding actually covers.
- Multi-year operating reserves modeling.
- Audit readiness, so the audit is a review and not a fire drill.
- Executive director financial coaching, so the leader can speak to the numbers with confidence.
The board conversation
We make finance committee meetings shorter, sharper, and more decision-oriented. The board sees the same clear picture the staff does, and the meeting moves to the decisions that matter.
A midsize nonprofit came to us with a committed board that did not fully trust the numbers in front of it. The financials were not wrong so much as unclear, and grant reporting consumed time the team did not have.
We rebuilt the reporting around fund and grant structure, prepared the organization for a clean audit, and gave the board a package it could read in minutes. The finance committee started ending its meetings early, with decisions made.
Mission stewardship is financial stewardship. Done right, they are the same thing.
Book a 30-minute Clarity Call. If you chair a board or finance committee, we are glad to make it a board-fit conversation.
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