As nonprofit funding becomes less predictable, RA Partners’ Ryan Alexander argues that the dividing line is balance sheet capacity: the ability to plan, absorb risk and operate over time. In an environment where some organizations can act strategically while others must wait for cash, financial strength is determining which missions can be sustained.
With pandemic-era emergency funding drying up, investors tying grants to measurable milestones and federal contracts restructured around quantifiable outcomes, Love & War’s Kriston Rucker argues that the nonprofits best equipped to survive are the ones that have built the operational infrastructure to substantiate them.