2025 Nonprofit Leaders Report
Survey Finds Growth Challenges 6x More Likely
Without Finance and Accounting Partners
Key Findings
- 100% of Nonprofit leaders outsource at least one business function, but only 30% work with a finance and accounting partner.
- Nonprofits working with a partner are over 6X less likely to struggle with scaling their financial function to support growth.
- 72% struggle with turnover in the financial function at least occasionally.
- 36% frequently or very frequently experience cash flow issues.
- 93% of Nonprofit leaders report needing to reclassify funds more than once per year.
- The biggest benefit of working with a finance and accounting partner is gaining more time to focus on mission-driven activities.
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Executive Summary
In collaboration with Cascade Insights, BTQ Financial (a division of Consero Global) surveyed 100 Nonprofit leaders, including CEOs, COOs, Executive Directors, and Founders, about their top financial challenges and opportunities for 2025.
All respondents represent Nonprofits operating in large metro areas within the United States, with annual revenues ranging from $3 million to $200 million. Participants lead a wide variety of Nonprofits, including human and health services, animal welfare organizations, and charitable or social service organizations.
With nearly one-third of respondents working with a third-party finance and accounting partner, this whitepaper highlights the core benefits of these partnerships, particularly in addressing key challenges such as assessing financial sustainability and risk, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, and meeting audit deadlines and
regulations.
Our research reveals disparities in financial management between Nonprofits that utilize third-party partners and those that do not. Partnered Nonprofits report more accurate budgets and financial forecasts and greater success in meeting regulatory deadlines.