How Can A Nonprofit Demonstrate Its Commitment To Ensuring
All Donated Funds Are Spent To Maximize Impact?
The Nonprofit Financial Stewardship Assessment
Responsible cost management cannot be accurately measured solely by looking at a 990 tax return.
There's insufficient detail about what was spent, why it was spent, who it was spent on, what was the spending decision process, etc. It's why funder and watchdog reliance on overhead percentages to determine a nonprofit's suitability for funding is so flawed.
So we took a shot at developing a more appropriate self-measuring stick.
ACRE's Stewardship Assessment, vetted by a group of nonprofit leaders, is a free tool to help nonprofits quantify and demonstrate all they do to ensure outstanding stewardship of the resources entrusted to them.
Coupled with a demonstrated history of cost-effective and successful grant management, these evidence-based tools should dispel any imprecise concerns about "spending too much on overhead."
Free Resource for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Financial Stewardship Assessment
A structured, self-guided review of your organization’s financial stewardship practices — generating three tailored reports for your team, your board, and your donors. No grades. No comparisons. Just a clear picture of where you stand.