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Budget against actuals: finance and programs on one page

What a grant budgeted, what has been spent, and how many people that spend reached, in one view.

Impact Kompass team · · 5 min read

In most organizations, finance and programs report on the same grants from different rooms. Finance knows what has been spent. Programs know who has been reached. The executive director, preparing for a board meeting, stitches the two together by hand.

Two views of the same grant

Impact Kompass reads your finance data alongside your program records. Each program and each grant shows its budget, its spend to date and its reach, side by side and for the same period.

  • Budget against actual spend per program and per grant, with the share used so far.
  • Cost per participant reached, computed from the same records your indicators use.
  • Spend and reach by region, cohort or partner, wherever your data allows.
Finance and program leads looking at the same numbers.

Why it changes the conversation

When spend and reach live in one place, questions that used to take a week take a minute. Is the youth fellowship on track to use its budget? Why does one region cost twice as much per person? Which grant needs a reallocation request before the quarter closes?

For the first time, our finance manager and our program leads argued about the same number instead of about whose spreadsheet was right.

Executive director, a fictional agriculture nonprofit

Your accounting system stays

Impact Kompass does not replace your accounting software. It reads from it, so your finance team keeps its tools and its controls, and everyone else finally sees the picture they need.

Budget against actuals: finance and programs on one page · Impact Kompass