Financial leadership that answers to your mission, not a quarterly earnings call.
Nonprofit finance and operations leadership at whatever level you need it - Fractional CFO, COO, Senior Finance Director, Controller, plus HR support. Founded by Lorin Port, a finance leader who has spent over 15 years inside nonprofit organizations, not consulting from outside them.
Elevating nonprofit financial strategies, one board meeting at a time.
We take on the finance, operations, accounting, grants, and HR work that keeps nonprofit leaders up at night, and translate it into clear numbers your board can act on. No consulting theatre, no for-profit playbooks. Just senior finance leadership tuned to how nonprofits actually run.
Four practice areas. One nonprofit-only firm.
Executive, operational, and system-level finance work delivered fractionally - scale it up for an audit or a system conversion, scale it back when things are steady.
Fractional CFO & COO
Executive finance and operations leadership without a full-time hire. Board-ready reporting, audit prep, cash management, and mission-aligned strategy.
See CFO & COO servicesSenior Finance Team
Hands-on Directors and Controllers who run day-to-day finance, lead accounting staff, and cover interim vacancies without a beat.
See Senior Finance servicesAccounting Optimization
Most accounting bottlenecks aren't the software. We assess people, processes, and systems together, then optimize all three.
See Accounting servicesAI, Grant Writing & HR
Fractional grant writers and analysts, federal and state grant portfolio management, mission-aligned HR leadership, HRIS implementation, and AI readiness for your team.
See Grant & HR servicesEvery nonprofit sector, one operating language.
Every sector has its own funding rhythm. We speak all of them, from food-bank inventory cycles to zoo capital projects.
Human Services & Food Security
Restricted-fund tracking and interim finance leadership for food banks and human-services agencies.
Arts, Culture & Museums
Season-cycle budgets, endowment reporting, and audit prep for playhouses, museums, and cultural centers.
Zoos & Conservation
Multi-entity accounting, ERP optimization, and capital-project finance for zoos and conservation nonprofits.
Education & Schools
Endowment reporting, restricted-fund accounting, and board-audit readiness for schools and education nonprofits.
How we work with educationCommunity & Public Strategy
Grant-heavy portfolios and government-contract compliance for community-benefit and public-policy nonprofits.
Industry & Trade Associations
Dues models, chapter accounting, and event-revenue finance for 501(c)(6) associations and member-driven nonprofits.
Mental Health & Crisis Intervention
Grant and contract compliance, program-cost allocation, and cash planning for mental-health and crisis-intervention nonprofits.
Talk to us about your organizationReligion Related
Restricted-gift tracking, budgeting, and clear board reporting for faith-based and religion-related nonprofits.
Talk to us about your organizationInternational & Foreign Affairs
Foundation and government grant compliance, program budgeting, and board reporting for international and foreign-affairs nonprofits.
Numbers you can trace to real engagements.
Nonprofit-only, board-fluent, ERP-broad.
Four things nonprofit boards keep telling us are hard to find in the same firm. We built the practice around them.
- Nonprofit-only focus
Every engagement is a 501(c)(3) or (c)(6). No for-profit distractions, no revenue-growth vocabulary. - Board-ready reporting
Meaningful financial packages your executives and board can read in ten minutes and act on in twenty. - ERP breadth
Hands-on experience across NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Blackbaud Financial Edge, MIP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and QuickBooks Online. - Interim and transition specialty
Seamless coverage during senior finance searches, leadership transitions, and audit windows. Month-end never slips.
Six named nonprofit leaders on the work.
Each proposal is paired with the specific engagement outcome it followed, so you can see the shape of the work, not just the sentiment.
Marjorie's calm confidence and friendly demeanor provided us with stability during our transition.
Seamless interim Director of Accounting coverage during permanent recruitment. Month-end closes continued without a missed cycle.
Their expertise, efficiency, and calm command of the work immediately gave our staff and board confidence.
Crisis-period finance leadership through complex audit preparation. Day-to-day operations covered without disruption.
Their optimization of our NetSuite environment has significantly enhanced our reporting capabilities.
NetSuite reconfiguration and executive-team financial literacy uplift during a leadership transition.
One Abacus' outside viewpoint and collaboration allowed us to create a more effective budgeting system.
New budgeting system and cash-forecasting cadence delivered and adopted by the finance team.
They quickly mobilized a talented group of professionals who handled everything with expertise and ease.
Day-to-day accounting and audit preparation carried through a critical grants-heavy period.
Their expertise was instrumental as we rebuilt our financial operations from the ground up.
Financial-operations reconstruction alongside an organizational restructuring.
Four steps from first call to steady partnership.
A repeatable rhythm, whether you need six months of interim CFO coverage or a multi-year fractional partnership.
Free consultation
A 30-minute call with Lorin. We diagnose the real question behind the ask and confirm whether we are the right fit.
Discovery & scoping
We review current books, ERP setup, board reporting cadence, and grants portfolio. You get a written scope with hours and outcomes.
Fractional engagement
We take on the finance seat you needed. Month-end closes on time. Board packets ship the week before the meeting.
Ongoing partnership
As your organization grows, we scale up or hand off to the permanent hire we helped you find.
What nonprofit leaders ask us first.
Book a free 30-minute consultation with Lorin.
No pitch deck. Bring the question your board keeps asking. We will tell you what we would do first.