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The headline pattern
“Strong Foundation. Mission, Governance, and Leadership are all Established or better — this organization has the core infrastructure to build on.”
Built for organizations that build communities
Building a Thriving Nonprofit
KindTru helps your nonprofit see itself clearly, in your board's and staff's own words and in the public record a funder reads before they ever call. And what you learn becomes something you can use: a full assessment of your organizational health, a plan your team can actually run, and a planning room built for the decisions that come next.
Find out where you stand
Decide where you are going
Designed for nonprofits with budgets from $20K to $10M.
Free lookup
What do funders already see about you?
Every U.S. nonprofit has a public financial identity, the IRS filings a funder reads before they ever talk to you. Look up your organization and see the public record the way they do, in plain language. Free, no account needed.
Free planning check
What kind of planning do you actually need?
Eight questions, about five minutes, and the answer is a name for the kind of planning that fits where your organization actually is. Not every organization needs the same process, and starting the wrong one costs a year. Free, no account needed.
How it works
Three stages.
One clear path.
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Understand
Complete a short intake. Send your board a ready-made heads-up, then invite them to the survey (invitations, reminders, and progress tracking run themselves).
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Act
Receive your report, pick 2–3 priorities, and get an action plan with owners and deadlines. Then use the Planning Room to run the longer conversation: a retreat built from your own results, mode guides, and printable tools.
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Thrive
Give your board fifteen minutes of development at each regular meeting, chosen from your own results. Track progress with ongoing check-ins, share funder-ready progress reports, and re-assess to measure real improvement.
One question, followed through
From a survey question to Monday morning.
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The question
“We regularly review budget-versus-actual performance and discuss variances substantively at board meetings — not just receive reports.”
Your board and senior staff answer it. Why we ask: Budget-versus-actual review is where financial oversight becomes governance. This question helps assess whether variances get discussed substantively or noted and moved past.
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The finding
Financial Health scores in the Emerging band — and different seats see the numbers differently.
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The action
Schedule a 90-minute financial literacy training session for board members covering how to read the organization's financial statements. Owner: Treasurer.
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The guide
First step:Put “How to read our financials” on a regular board meeting agenda as a 90-minute item and tell the board no preparation is required — removing homework is what gets the reluctant members in the room. Effort: ~3 hours treasurer prep + the 90-minute session.
All 72 recommended actions carry a guide like this.
Answers are reported in aggregate only, and no group smaller than three people is ever broken out — so your board and staff can say what they actually see. And before anyone receives a survey, we even draft the heads-up email you send your board first.
What you get
One purchase, and everything that follows from it
An assessment that shows you where you stand, and the planning materials to decide what to do about it. An accessible alternative to a $5,000–$15,000 consulting engagement.
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Organizational Health Report
Maturity scores across up to 18 categories, findings read back in plain language, and the patterns that cut across categories.
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Facilitation Kit
A 90-minute meeting-in-a-box with timed agenda, discussion questions, and a board summary letter.
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Role One-Pagers
Printable summaries tailored for board members, the executive director, and staff.
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Board Meeting Agenda Pack
A structured agenda for presenting findings to your board.
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Action Plan
Prioritized recommendations, each with a step-by-step execution guide — the first step, the how-to, the time it takes, and what done looks like — plus owners and timelines.
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Grant & Funder Readiness Kit
Grant narratives drafted from your own assessment data, org descriptions, logic model, evaluation plan, and due diligence checklist.
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Stakeholder Communications
Messaging tailored for your board, staff, and funders.
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Planning Room & Strategic Planning Kit
A retreat built from your own results (a participant pre-read, a timed half-day agenda, the words to open and steer with, the choosing exercises, and a plan on a page), plus five planning-mode guides and twelve printable tools.
Look inside
Three excerpts, straight from the report.
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From the executive summary
“After 15 years of building trust in Riverside's communities, your organization has something that cannot be manufactured quickly: a mission that is genuinely lived, not just stated.”
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A finding, and what to do about it
“Financial Health and Fundraising are both Emerging, and the organization has named funding sustainability as its top challenge…”
The action it leads to: Schedule a 90-minute financial literacy training session for board members covering how to read the organization's financial statements.
First step, from its guide: Put “How to read our financials” on a regular board meeting agenda as a 90-minute item and tell the board no preparation is required — removing homework is what gets the reluctant members in the room.
Effort: ~3 hours treasurer prep + the 90-minute session
From a real report for a fictional organization. Read the full sample report
Who it's for
Built for organizations that build communities.
For
Nonprofit Leaders
Whether you're an executive director wearing 12 hats, a board chair who wants to move your board from rubber-stamping to real governance, or a program director asked for an organizational assessment — KindTru gives you a consultant-quality diagnostic in weeks, not months. You get a structured board retreat with data your members can actually discuss, without the consultant price tag.
For
Community Foundations
Invest in shared learning across your nonprofit ecosystem. Purchase assessments for your grantee cohort and unlock cohort-level intelligence — aggregated insights into collective strengths, shared challenges, and where capacity-building investment can have the greatest impact. Individual organization data stays private. Always.
What this is — and isn't
This isn't a consultant. It's not a certification, and it won't flatter you. It's a structured, confidential way for your board and staff to say what they actually see — and a set of tools for doing something about it.
If you need deep bespoke strategy work, hire a consultant; many organizations do both.
Research-backed
Built on research, not guesswork
Your KindTru experience spans organizational health, from governance and financial stewardship to equity, technology, and community engagement. Every question, every score interpretation, and every recommendation is grounded in deep research and experience on what makes nonprofits thrive.
Targeted assessment questions
Tailored to each respondent's role
Each respondent sees only the questions relevant to them — usually ~20–30, drawn from a research-backed bank of 324, each one explaining why it's asked.
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Categories of organizational health
Found.
Emerg.
Estab.
Adv.
Maturity levels
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Recommended actions, each with a step-by-step guide
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Your organization does important work. Now find out how to make it stronger.
Both halves in one purchase: a comprehensive organizational health assessment with experience-driven insights, and the planning room your team uses to decide what comes next.
Organizational Health & Planning
$299one-time · no subscription
Full diagnostic across all 18 categories, plus the planning work that follows it: report, facilitation kit, action plan, stakeholder communications, grant readiness, and the Planning Room with a strategic planning kit built from your own results. All included.
Get startedKindTru resources are designed to help nonprofit leaders ask better questions, have better conversations, and build stronger organizations. They're educational — not legal, financial, or tax advice. Every organization operates in a unique context, and we always recommend consulting a qualified professional for guidance specific to your situation.