According to the Giving USA 2025: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2024, individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations gave an estimated $592.50 billion to U.S. charities in 2024. As giving stabilizes and improves, finance leaders must evolve from scorekeepers to strategic storytellers, translating financial data into mission impact.  This is because donors, grantors, and corporate partners want data-driven clarity about performance, liquidity, and risk, in a world upended by uncertainties. 

For non-profit CFOs navigating this reality, outsourcing finance and accounting functions has become an increasingly practical and strategic solution. Not as a cost-cutting measure, but as a way to access the specialist expertise, reporting sophistication, process discipline, and scalable capacity that the mission demands without the overhead of building it entirely in-house. 

The guide explores: 

• Why many finance transformation initiatives fail to deliver expected outcomes 

Why the finance function is simultaneously critical and chronically under-resourced 

• What to outsource

Which functions deliver the most value when outsourced, and which to keep in-house 

• The cost case

True cost of in-house hiring vs. outsourcing for nonprofit organizations 

• Building the board case

How to frame the outsourcing decision for a nonprofit board 

Download the guide to know how non-profit finance leaders can use F&A outsourcing to build a reliable, audit-ready, finance function aligned to what boards, funders, and communities need from the organizations they trust.