Financial management & planning
Grant budget workshop: recover your nonprofit's full costs
You routinely undercharge in grant budgets — missing out on staff time, overheads, and legitimate costs that funders would have covered.
What you'll achieve
Grant budgets that fully and legitimately reflect your costs, including staff time, overheads, and capital expenditure.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Run a practical workshop on budget construction, covering how to calculate full cost recovery, incorporate overheads, and scrutinise budgets before submission.
Key deliverables
- Training session, budget construction templates, full cost recovery guidance, overhead allocation model, checklist for pre-submission review.
Related projects
More from Financial management & planning
Accounting software selection & implementation
“You are managing organisational finances in spreadsheets — and your funders are asking for project-level reporting you simply cannot produce.”See project
Audit readiness support
“Your first statutory audit is approaching — or a previous audit raised concerns — and your records, reconciliations, and documentation are not ready.”See project
Budget framework development
“Every project manager budgets differently — consolidation is a nightmare and leadership has no real oversight of where money is going.”See project
Often paired with
Grant proposal writing support
“Your proposals aren't converting — or you simply don't have the bandwidth to write compelling applications on top of everything else.”See project
Pitch deck & funder engagement support
“You need to secure a major grant or investment and your case for support isn't strong enough.”See project
From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
- 8.4C110
Full Cost Resources
A free collection of Nonprofit Finance Fund materials on the full cost of running a nonprofit. It contains the Full Cost Framework, 3 practices for getting started and building a full cost budget, a page on the 6 full cost areas, a short video series, and the Full Cost Communication Guide. The guide gives tips and sample scenarios for conversations between nonprofits and funders about grant terms.
Start hereCurrentTool or templateFree - 8.2C199
Financial Health Check Assessment Tool
A free self-assessment for small and medium NGOs, first published by Mango as Mango's Health Check and now kept by Humentum. Any staff member or trustee can complete it without finance training. It scores the organisation on 6 areas: planning and budgeting, basic accounting systems, internal controls, staffing, grant management and financial reporting. The result is a score with recommendations and a glossary of financial terms.
ClassicTool or templateFree