Fractional CFO · Nonprofit Sector
I partner with nonprofit executive directors to bring financial discipline, forward-looking analysis, and the board-level narrative your organization needs to move forward with confidence.
Who I Serve
Nonprofit finance has its own discipline — restricted funds, grant cycles, board governance, and the constant pressure to demonstrate financial health to funders and stakeholders. Strong financial leadership is what makes everything else credible.
You need a financial partner who can translate numbers into strategic clarity — and give you the language to bring your board and donors along with confidence. Not reports. Insight.
Organizations navigating growth, leadership change, or increasing complexity — where stronger financial infrastructure isn't optional anymore, but a full-time CFO hire isn't the right answer yet.
Board members who want more than variance reports. Leaders who need a credible, forward-looking financial picture — and the confidence to make decisions based on it.
A Solid Starting Point
Many organizations come to me with capable people and genuine mission — but financial processes and reporting that haven't kept pace. Data that's hard to trust. Month-end close that takes too long. Board reports that raise more questions than they answer.
Before we talk about five-year projections or strategic growth, I want to understand where you actually are. That means a clear-eyed assessment of your current financial data, reporting infrastructure, and internal processes — what's working, what isn't, and what needs to change first.
Getting on solid financial footing isn't glamorous work, but it's the work that makes everything else possible. Think of it as making sure the wheels are on before we hit the accelerator.
A structured review of your current financial data, reporting, close process, and systems — identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and the highest-priority areas to address.
Working through the backlog — reconciling accounts, clarifying fund allocations, rebuilding reporting templates, and establishing a reliable month-end rhythm your team can sustain.
Board-ready financials you can stand behind. Clean actuals, clear variance analysis, and a reporting cadence that keeps leadership informed and boards confident.
With a solid foundation in place, we shift to forward-looking work — multi-year modeling, cash flow strategy, scenario planning, and the financial narrative that supports your mission.
What I Offer
Each engagement is shaped around what your organization actually needs — not a fixed package designed for someone else's problem.
A clear-eyed assessment of your financial data, processes, reporting, and systems. I identify what's working, what isn't, and lay out a prioritized roadmap for getting to solid ground — before anything else.
Reconciling accounts, clarifying fund allocations, fixing reporting templates, and establishing a reliable close process. The foundational work that makes every other financial conversation more productive.
Reporting that board members actually understand and trust. I translate financial data into strategic narrative — connecting the numbers to your mission and the decisions that need to be made.
Scenario-based projections and long-range financial planning that give your leadership team a credible view of where the organization is heading — and the confidence to act on it.
Annual budgets that reflect your strategic priorities — built with your leadership team, not handed down. Realistic, defensible, and credible to the funders and board members who scrutinize them.
Know what's coming before it arrives. Cash flow forecasting and reserve strategy built around the timing realities of nonprofit revenue — grants, pledges, and seasonal variation.
"A nonprofit's financial picture doesn't just inform decisions —
it shapes how every stakeholder sees the organization."
Credible numbers, transparent governance, and clear financial narrative
are what separate organizations that earn trust from those that struggle to keep it.
Background
My career has been built around one consistent challenge: making complex financial pictures legible — to executives, to boards, and to the people who need to act on them.
Across more than two decades of senior finance and consulting roles — including executive-level work with Fortune 500 companies — I developed a deep foundation in financial planning, forecasting, operational finance, and organizational change. I know what disciplined financial management looks like under real pressure, and I know how to build the systems and narratives that help leaders navigate it.
That discipline now serves nonprofit organizations, where the stakes are just as real and the need for clear, credible financial leadership is, if anything, greater. My work leading finance for a prominent regional performing arts organization brought that experience directly into the sector — navigating endowments, restricted funds, board governance, and the full range of financial demands that mission-driven organizations face.
How We Work Together
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal. I want to understand what you're actually dealing with before we talk about what to do about it.
We talk for 30 minutes. No agenda, no pitch. Just an honest conversation about where your organization is and what's getting in the way.
If there's a fit, we define the engagement together — what we'll work on, how often we'll connect, and what a useful outcome looks like. Simple and clear.
I work alongside your leadership team — in the numbers, in the room, and at the table when it matters. You work directly with me, not a junior associate.
Regular reporting, board support, and strategic check-ins that keep your leadership team informed and your board confident in the financial picture.
Get in Touch
If you're a nonprofit leader who wants to understand what stronger financial leadership could look like for your organization — reach out. No pressure, no sales process.
I'll be in touch soon.
Or reach me directly at matt@mattevansfinance.com