Stage 1 · Structure
Chart of accounts built for restrictions.
Our services, in detail
Four services built for nonprofit organisations, on a fixed monthly fee.
Program 01 · Restricted kept separate
Fund accounting & bookkeeping
Nonprofit accounting differs from business accounting in one way that matters enormously: some of the money has conditions on it. We set up a chart of accounts that tracks restrictions from the day a gift arrives, rather than trying to reconstruct which dollars were restricted eighteen months later.
Stage 2 · Coding
Each gift tagged as it arrives.
Stage 3 · Reconciliation
Every account, every month.
Stage 4 · Close
On an agreed date, queries resolved.
Stage 1 · Checklist
Sent early, not in month eleven.
Stage 2 · Figures
Prepared and reconciled.
Stage 3 · Review
With officers, who sign it.
Stage 4 · Filed
With state registrations kept current.
Program 02 · A public document
Form 990 preparation support
Form 990 is read by funders, charity raters and journalists, which makes it a public statement as much as a filing. We prepare the figures and schedules accurately and on time, and flag the parts — compensation, governance questions, functional expense allocation — that readers actually look at.
Program 03 · Reportable at any point
Grant tracking & compliance
Funders ask how their specific money was spent, and an organisation that cannot answer loses the renewal. We track each award separately, allocate shared costs on a consistent and defensible basis, and keep the documentation that a grant audit would ask for.
Stage 1 · Award terms
What can be charged and what cannot.
Stage 2 · Tracking
Each grant separately from day one.
Stage 3 · Allocation
Shared costs on a consistent basis.
Stage 4 · Reports
Produced from the records, not rebuilt.
Stage 1 · What matters
Cash, restricted balances, budget variance.
Stage 2 · Pack
Short, readable, consistent each time.
Stage 3 · Brief
The treasurer, before the meeting.
Stage 4 · Questions
Answered afterwards in writing.
Program 04 · For volunteers
Board reporting & treasurer support
Most nonprofit treasurers are volunteers with day jobs and no accounting background. A board pack full of unexplained variances helps nobody govern. We produce a short, readable pack and brief the treasurer beforehand so the questions at the meeting get answered.
Treasurer handing over?
A free first meeting on where the books stand and what it would take to steady them.