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The same facts.
Every funder's format.

Write your organisation's facts once. We help you turn them into every funder report and grant application you need, on every funder's own cycle — plus a simple tracker so you always know what's due, and when.

deadline tracker — illustrative

WHAT'S DUE, AND WHEN

Community Trust — annual report, submitted
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Lottery grant — due in 12 days
Foundation report — financial year cycle
Council contract — calendar year cycle

The problem

Reporting is the biggest drain most not-for-profits have.

Every funder wants the same underlying story about your organisation — told in a different format, on a different cycle. Some run by financial year, some by calendar year. The facts barely change between reports. The formatting is what eats the time.

Every funder wants it differently

Different data, different formats, different cycles — reporting becomes a job of its own, separate from the work it describes.

The same facts, rewritten each time

Your mission, your outcomes, your key figures — retyped into a new shape for every application and report.

Manual re-entry is where errors creep in

Every hand-typed figure needs a person to check it, which means every report needs time before it can go out.

Tracking what's due is its own job

Knowing what each funder needs, and when, often lives in someone's memory rather than anywhere written down.

What's included

One set of facts. Every funder's shape.

PART ONE — THE MASTER FACTS DOCUMENT

1

Your organisation's facts, in one place

Mission, programmes, outcomes, key figures and history — captured once, kept current, and used as the source for every report and application.

2

Both reporting years covered

Whether a funder runs by financial year or calendar year, both draw from the same underlying data — no separate version to maintain.

PART TWO — THE FUNDER TOOLKIT

3

Funder-specific templates

Draft reports and grant applications built from your master facts, ready to adapt for each funder's own format.

4

A contract & deadline tracker

One view of every funder relationship — what it funds, what it requires, and when it's due — so nothing depends on memory.

How it works

Built once, alongside your team

01

Gather the facts

A working session pulling together what's scattered across old reports, spreadsheets and inboxes.

02

Build the master document

Everything consolidated into one clear, current source of truth.

03

Build funder templates

Starting with your highest-stakes funder, then extending to the rest of your funder base.

04

Set up the tracker

Every contract and deadline in one place, so nothing depends on any one person remembering.

05

Train your team

Hands-on practice so the toolkit is actually used once we've stepped back, and survives staff turnover.

What's inside

Built around the funders you already have

Master facts document

One current, trustworthy source for your mission, programmes, outcomes and figures.

e.g. no more hunting through last year's report for a figure.

Funder-specific templates

A draft ready to adapt for each funder's own format, financial year or calendar year.

e.g. two funders, two formats, one starting point.

Contract & deadline tracker

What each contract funds, what it needs, and when it's due — all in one place.

e.g. no deadline missed because it slipped someone's mind.

Consistent figures, every time

Every report draws from the same source, so different documents never quietly say different things.

e.g. one number, the same in the board paper and the funder report.

Guided drafting support

Direct help turning your master facts into a specific report or application, not just a blank template.

e.g. a first draft ready well before the deadline.

Built to survive staff turnover

Hands-on training so the toolkit doesn't depend on any one person remembering how it works.

e.g. a new starter can pick it straight up.

Who it's for

Any not-for-profit reporting to more than one funder

This isn't built around any one mission area — it's built around a pattern almost every small not-for-profit shares.

Community & Social Service Trusts

Organisations juggling council contracts, trust grants and Lottery funding on different cycles.

Arts & Culture Organisations

Galleries, theatres and heritage groups reporting to Creative NZ, community trusts and local council.

Environmental & Conservation Groups

Community-led projects reporting outcomes, not just activity, to an increasingly demanding funder base.

Health & Disability Services

Providers reporting to philanthropic trusts and health-sector funders alongside client-facing work.

Schools & Kura

Boards of Trustees managing grant applications and funder reporting alongside everything else on the calendar.

Sports & Recreation Clubs

Volunteer-run committees reporting to funders with a fraction of a paid organisation's capacity.

Real impact

What changes, report to report

1

source of truth

Not a different version in every funder's folder.

hours back each cycle

Time once spent formatting goes back into the work itself.

nothing missed

Every deadline tracked, not held in one person's memory.

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more grants pursued

Faster turnaround means fewer opportunities skipped for lack of time.

Let's talk

Stop rewriting the same report

We'll look at your current funders and where a master document would save the most time first.