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Diagram of pillars supporting a healthy nonprofit.
The Nonprofit Health Score

Six Pillars of a Healthy Nonprofit

The Nonprofit Health Score encompasses six essential pillars of nonprofit health and serves as a blueprint for growth among community-based organizations. This nonprofit health assessment reveals where your organization stands currently and highlights opportunities for organizational advancement in the future.

FIND YOUR SCORE

WHat's Measured?

Governance

Financial Systems

Board Structure

The policies and decision-making practices that ensure accountability in community-based organizations include bylaws, a conflict-of-interest policy, and documented board meetings, all of which are integral to the nonprofit health assessment and organizational advancement.

Board Structure

Financial Systems

Board Structure

It is crucial for community-based organizations to have a real, independent board that understands its fiduciary duties and maintains a clear distinction from staff and founder roles, especially during nonprofit health assessments aimed at organizational advancement.

Financial Systems

Financial Systems

Financial Systems

How money is handled and protected in community-based organizations involves separate accounts, fund tracking, internal controls, and on-time 990 filing to ensure transparency. This is essential for conducting a nonprofit health assessment and supporting organizational advancement.

Legal Formation

Growth Readiness

Financial Systems

Whether the organization, particularly community-based organizations, legally exists and is recognized to operate and fundraise is crucial for its organizational advancement. This includes having articles of incorporation, an EIN, 501(c)(3) status, and charitable registration, all of which are important for conducting nonprofit health assessments.

People + HR

Growth Readiness

Growth Readiness

Ensuring that workers are correctly classified, meeting employer obligations, and safeguarding the interests of community-based organizations and nonprofit health assessment agreements is crucial for the organizational advancement of both the entity and its volunteers.

Growth Readiness

Growth Readiness

Growth Readiness

Whether mission, strategy, financials, and more than one source of support are in place to sustain and grow community-based organizations and their nonprofit health assessment initiatives for organizational advancement.

Nonprofit Health Score

Fundraising success, strong governance, and lasting program impact all rest on the same solid ground: good legal standing and financial integrity. 


They are not separate workstreams competing for attention; instead they are interdependent and allow leaders to see the whole structure at once, so they can choose where to build next.

Fundraising + Revenue

Many small nonprofits treat fundraising as grant writing and leave board development, strategy, and good standing for "someday." 


Funders work the other way. They look for an active board, clear finances, and an organization in good standing.


 When the financial, legal, and growth-readiness pillars score low, the issue is rarely the program. It is whether the organization is a safe place to invest. 

Governance

The Health Score shows the difference between having a rubber-stamp board and having a functioning one: real policies, independent members, understood fiduciary duties, and a healthy boundary between board and founder. 


Seeing this scored gives a leader permission to address role confusion without it feeling like a personal critique.

Program Impact

 The growth-readiness pillar ties your mission and theory of change to the systems that let your programs be delivered and sustained. 


A brilliant program inside a fragile organization cannot last long enough to matter.


Putting the basics in place quickly means more time and resources go to the work at the heart of your nonprofit's mission.


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