Budgets that hold up and tell your story.
Program and grant budgets, simple forecasting, and budget narratives that make sense to your board and to funders, built by someone who reads them from the funding side.
Numbers that do not add up under questions.
A small org guesses at program costs, scrambles to build a grant budget, and cannot always explain its numbers when a funder asks.
Numbers you understand and funders trust.
Budgets funders trust
Built to answer the questions a funder will actually ask.
Program costs you understand
A clear picture of what each program really costs to run.
Cash flow you can see coming
Simple forecasting so surprises do not become emergencies.
Narratives that explain the numbers
Plain-language budget narratives that connect dollars to mission.
What we handle for you.
- Organizational and program budgets
- Grant budgets
- Simple forecasting and cash flow
- Budget narratives
- Cost allocation basics
- A board-ready budget presentation
Hearthside sees its lean months coming.
An illustrative case study. The sample deliverables it describes are real and open from the cards below.
Hearthside Health & Housing, this time on the money side: a real program budget, a narrative, and a six-month cash view.
One annual budget line for everything, no program-level costs, and two cash crunches a year that arrived as surprises. The board approved numbers it could not interrogate.
A program budget where every line recomputes, a budget narrative that ties each major line to the mission, and a six-month cash-flow chart whose whole job is to time the appeal before the lean month. The three samples below are the set.
Illustratively: the board sees that February and May run lean and why; the June appeal mails in week one because the chart says so; and the program budget survives a funder's calculator, because the shares actually sum.
The real part: Our founder is an MBA with a lending background; she builds these budgets.
A look at the work we produce.
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A clear annual budget for one program, down to the line.
View the sampleA narrative that ties the dollars to the mission in plain language.
View the sampleA six-month look at money in and out, so lean months are visible early.
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