AI check for non-profits and NGOs

A deadline usually only comes to light once it has passed. What is then lost or clawed back is missing not from a profit but from the cause, and in the worst case the charitable status is in question. The overview often sits in one person's head. In the audit for Non-profits and NGOs this is a dedicated area: you answer questions taken from your everyday work, and the result shows where automation can realistically help here.

Besides the Grant Applications, Approvals and Deadlines area, it covers Use of Funds, Restricted Purposes and Reporting, Donations, Receipts and Donor Communication and Volunteers and Helpers, among others. In total the audit spans 16 areas from the configuration for Non-profits and NGOs – services you do not offer are skipped by the questionnaire.

Yes. Your maturity score is set against the average of the audits already completed in the same sector. As long as too few audits are available for that, the result shows a neutral reference value and labels it explicitly as such, no invented sector statistics.

For associations with and without staff, non-profit companies, foundations with their own activity, NGOs, organisations in the environmental, human rights and cultural field, welfare and social federations at local level, supporters' associations, friends' groups and self-help organisations, whether run purely by volunteers or with a staffed office.

What matters is not the legal form but what shapes your day-to-day work. If you run a care service, a hospital, a school or a nursery, the right check is under those sectors. There it is about rosters, documentation and billing for those facilities. This check is for the other part: the office, fundraising, grant funding, governing bodies and volunteers. You can run both, one after the other.

No, explicitly not. The check deals with processes, deadlines, allocation, records and communication. It makes no statement about your purpose, your substantive work or its impact, and it does not compare projects by impact. Impact cannot be monetised here, and the report does not try.

No, and that is one of the strictest boundaries in this check. Ruled out are recommendations that rank donors by likelihood to give, identify major-donor potential or optimise the timing, amount and emotional effect of an appeal. As is any scoring of members or volunteers by activity. What is permissible is whatever eases administration: recording, confirming, documenting, reminding, retrieving.

The questionnaire collects no such data. It only asks about processes. And no recommendation may suggest ranking, prioritising or selecting people seeking help, or having a system check eligibility. Where a recommendation touches the data of people you support, it explicitly names the data protection requirements and who continues to make the decision.

Especially then. Without paid staff the report explicitly limits every field of action to a scale that is manageable alongside a job. Nobody here is handed a task that would need a half-time post. And a second yardstick comes in: what only one person knows today and keeps in a private folder is gone at the next change of board. Recommendations that reduce that dependency count for more here than ones that save time.

Around ten minutes for a purely volunteer-run association, somewhat longer for an organisation with an office, several grants and its own advisory work. A few key facts about the organisation are captured first; after that the number of questions follows what actually exists in your case. Wherever a figure is asked for, the answer “I don't know” is always available. It does not worsen the result.

16 areas: members and fees, donations and receipts, grant applications and deadlines, use of funds and reporting, project work, work with people, volunteering, paid staff, governing bodies and decisions, bookkeeping and activity separation, charitable status and tax deadlines, communications and transparency, events, cooperations and onward funding, organisational IT, and AI use and rules.

No. There is no profit objective, and saved time is never revenue: it is first of all relief for those involved, above all volunteers and the board, and only then time for the cause. Volunteer time is not a cost item. Only three things may be quantified, and only where the figures were actually collected: funds lost to missed deadlines, approved funding left undrawn, and hours freed up, the latter expressly in hours.

No. On charity, grant, association and foundation law, on allocating activities to tax categories and on deadlines the check makes no binding statement, and it confirms neither charitable status nor eligibility nor that a deadline was met. It looks at whether your processes hold up organisationally and, where there are gaps, expressly recommends qualified review.

The quick check with AI maturity score, benchmark and the three most important fields of action is free. The full report covering all 16 areas, with an economic assessment whose assumptions are disclosed and a prioritised roadmap, costs 149 EUR. No registration is needed; an email address is only required so the result can be sent to you.