FY2025 Impact Report
Fiscal sponsors and their projects are a large and growing community.
Our Community
Map of Fiscal Sponsors:
(Confirmed + Suspected Sponsors; n = 1,462)
[House = NNFS Member / Star = Impact Commons Member]
A growing membership
Our membership also grew over FY2025.
Change in Membership over time
Reflecting the field
Our members reflect the overall demography of the field.
Our Impact
Direct advisory support to members
Over FY25 we provided…
3,250 hours of advisory support
80% of all support hours focused on finance and operations
Support to 15 members implementing the Sage Intact platform under our SIAP license
FY25 Support Overview
Types of Supports Offered
Our contributed support (without fee)
Pro Bono Community Support
3,330 hours
Publicly Accessible Workshops
9
National Conference Presentations & Panels
6
59 jobs posted and viewed over 4,801 times
Job Board Postings & Visits
28 reaching 905 unique participants + 8 advocacy conversations
Community Conversations
Over FY25 we provided members access to…
Presenting at 7 nonprofit and philanthropic conferences and convenings.
Our growing member library offers over 60 self-service tools, templates, and guidance documents for fiscal sponsors accessed over 1,500x in last year
Some of our most popular tools:
Project Advisory Committee Toolkit
Fiscal Sponsorship Toolkit for Grantmakers
Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement Templates
Fiscal Sponsorship Cost Recovery Deck
Shared tools & guidance documents
Our research and advocacy work
Over FY25 we spent 535 hours on research and advocacy work, including holding 8 advocacy meetings reaching 335 unique leaders in the field. We also produced two critical guidance documents for sponsors navigating the current political environment.
What our members thought of us
Our annual member survey received responses from 53 unique members. Some key learnings:
100% of respondents say our work has either positively impacted their practices (98.1%) or it was "too soon to tell" (1.9%).
Our top three most valued offerings were: our tools library (79.2% of respondents valued this), conversation series (67.9%), and field level research (62.3%)
We received a Net Promoter Score of 84.9.*
Growth in Net Promoter Score
(*) In a Net Promoter Score scale, above 0 is “good”, above 50 is “excellent”, and above 70 is “world class”.
