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Sage for Nonprofits

The #1 cloud nonprofit accounting software

Strengthen financial stewardship and advance your mission with integrated cloud fund accounting and operations solutions.
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At Sage, your mission is our priority

With over 30 years of experience serving nonprofits, Sage has empowered thousands of organizations to build trust with donors, increase their influence, and expand their impact.

Enhance stewardship

Build trust, improve transparency, and ensure compliance.

Improve decisions

Real-time program insights to drive collaboration and alignment.
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Automate the routine

Streamline fund-accounting, grants, and A/P to elevate your strategic work.

Leverage expertise

Learn from best-practice workflows and implementation built for nonprofits.

Why nonprofits choose Sage

At Sage, we understand the unique needs of nonprofits and are dedicated to helping them grow. Our market-leading financial software seamlessly integrates with leading payroll, HR, fundraising, and operations solutions, providing you with unmatched insights and efficiency across your organization.
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Nonprofit fund accounting and financials

Streamline fund, grant, and project accounting while achieving real-time visibility into the metrics that matter.

  • Track and report grants with precision and transparency.
  • Consolidate across entities, local or global, with a click.
  • Access role-based reports, dashboards, and visualizations.
  • Eliminates spreadsheet budgeting with Sage Intacct planning.

Payroll and HR software for nonprofits

Keep your team productive, engaged, and focused on doing good with integrated people management solutions.

  • Maximize impact with streamlined HR and payroll.
  • Process nonprofit payroll quickly and efficiently.
  • Nurture employee performance and productivity.

Nonprofit operations

Optimize key workflows to amplify your organization's efficiency and stewardship.

  • Cultivate relationships with donors, volunteers, members, and stakeholders.
  • Track financial and program data for every project or grant.
  • Access integrated financial and operational data anytime.

The #1 choice for nonprofits

100,000 more meals served. 4x more families supported. 600 more patients treated. We’ve helped thousands of nonprofits drive more impact. No matter the mission, Sage has a proven solution built for you.

Standard plan

For the needs of established small and mid-size nonprofit organizations.

Drive impact across all your programs

  • Fuel mission success with market-leading transparency, automation, and stewardship
  • Get complete financial management with interactive visualizations, planning, and grant tracking
  • Choose from implementation options designed to meet your needs and timeline

Premium plan

For the robust needs of larger, more complex nonprofit organizations.

Maximize your visibility and automation

  • Partner strategically across your organization with powerful workflows and enhanced collaboration
  • Level up your decision-making with advanced reporting, dynamic allocations, and greater levels of automation
  • Collaboratively explore your live data with visual boards that dynamically update as you change filters
  • Tailor your implementation based on your unique processes and operational flow

Features nonprofits love

Nonprofit accounting and financials

Gain real-time visibility into the true financial health of your organization and make confident, data-driven decisions.

Nonprofit accounting

Efficiently manage grant, fund, project, and donor accounting.

Real-time reporting

Role-based reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.

Grant management

Track, report, and reimburse grants accurately.

Compliance

Centralize documentation for internal control and reporting.

Budgeting and planning

Real-time budgeting, planning, and forecasting.

Multi-entity consolidation

Simplify consolidations for domestic or global operations.

Advanced functionality

Automate accounts payable, spend management, and nonprofit revenue recognition.

Payroll and HR software for nonprofits

Keep your team productive and engaged with people management solutions.

Human resources

Streamline human resources, payroll, and talent management.

Nonprofit payroll

Process payroll faster and easier with an intuitive solution.
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Time and expenses

Track time and expenses for employees and volunteers.

Employee benefits

Offer competitive benefits and ensure compliance.

Performance

Monitor employee performance and productivity.

Nonprofit operations

Automate key operational workflows for increased efficiency and better stewardship.
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Nonprofit CRM

Grow relationships with donors, volunteers, members, and stakeholders.
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Project management

Track financial and non-financial data per project or grant.

Fixed asset management

Manage fixed assets from acquisition to disposal.

Inventory management

Control costs and optimize inventory levels.
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Pre-built industry solutions

Pre-integrated capabilities: churches, dioceses, housing authorities, and more.

Seamless integration

Connect financial and business systems to gain greater visibility.
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Shari Freedman

CFO, Room to Read

With Sage Intacct, we have improved productivity by 25% for our worldwide field operations and global finance teams and seen a revenue increase of 15%. This translates to added resources to reach an additional 100,000 children through our Literacy Program and 21,000 girls through our Girls' Education Program.
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Sage Intacct for industry-specific nonprofits

No matter their mission–health, human services, education, religion, community development, grantmaking, or membership–Nonprofits trust Sage for finance, people, and operational management.
Community development organizations
Human services organizations
Educational nonprofit organizations
International nonprofits and NGOs
Faith-based organizations
Membership organizations
Foundations and philanthropic organizations
Nonprofit healthcare organizations
Government and public benefit organizations

Nonprofit software and financial management FAQs

Nonprofits must adhere to the fund-accounting standards set forth by their governing authorities (for example: FASB in the USA).  Sage offers fund accounting software (which we also refer to as "nonprofit accounting software"), which is a financial management solution designed specifically for nonprofit organizations. It helps nonprofits manage their finances, track donations, and generate reports to ensure compliance with regulations and transparency to donors.

If you’re trying to master the unique challenges of fund accounting while trapped by the limitations of simple spreadsheets, it’s time to look at Sage Intacct. Only Sage Intacct fund accounting software gives you the clear, real-time visibility you need to efficiently and proactively pursue your organization’s mission and manage your growth, while reducing fund accounting process costs.

Sage Intacct fund accounting software helps nonprofits and fund administrators:

  • Easily manage and track funds and grants.
  • Increase productivity by automating manual processes.
  • Ensure appropriate stewardship of funds and donations.
  • Deliver real-time reporting and visibility to stakeholders.
  • Manage access and permissions to geographically dispersed employees and volunteers.

From compliance reporting to generating outcome metrics and providing real-time visibility, Sage Intacct allows nonprofit organizations to spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on what really matters achieving their mission. Sage Intacct's nonprofit accounting software features:

  • Strong core accounting: Our key core accounting features provide the foundation for your financials: a dimensional general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, order management, purchasing, and Sage Intacct Collaborate to communicate with your team in real-time.
  • Multi-entity and global consolidations: Push-button consolidations aggregate transactions in minutes across your nonprofit organization with multiple entities, currencies, grants and donors, and locations.
  • Fund accounting: Create separate closes for each revenue source along with a regular series of specific reports including the statement of activities, statements of financial position, statements of cash flow, and Form 990.
  • Reporting and dashboards: Gain real-time visibility into every aspect of your organization’s finances; whether you’re interested in which funds were used for each project, the performance of your organization by location or team, the expense tied to each volunteer or employee, or any other aspect unique to your organization.
  • Control and compliance: Reduce risk and cost with automated workflows, internal controls, and streamlined compliance using built-in nonprofit-specific reports and FASB and IRS-compliant financial statements.
  • Revenue recognition: Save time with automated revenue recognition by streamlining ASU 2018-08 and ASC 606 compliance.
  • Visibility and transparency: Benefit from increased insight for faster financial decision-making by combining financial and operational data in new ways.
  • Grant tracking and billing: Improve delivery, reimbursement, reporting, and audit of your grants with centralized and automated grant tracking and billing functionality.
  • True cloud technology with open API: Track metrics central to your organization's operations and programs by leveraging key data from donor management, payroll, budgeting, CRMs like Salesforce, and other existing or future systems important to your organization.

 

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Nonprofit and charity management software can help you cut down on admin by automating many of the routine tasks associated with managing the finances of a nonprofit organization. This includes tasks such as tracking donations, managing donor information, generating financial reports, and more. By automating these tasks, you can save time and focus on other important aspects of running your organization.

Depending on your software, you may need to work with a professional services team to help you implement your software.

When choosing the best accounting software for your nonprofit organization, there are several factors to consider. These include the size and complexity of your organization, the features and functionality you need, the cost of the software, and the level of support and training provided by the vendor. It's a good idea to research and compare several different options before making a decision.

Sage offers two main accounting software options for nonprofits: Sage 50 and Sage Intacct. Sage 50 is a reliable cloud-connected ERP solution for startups and smaller nonprofits. It is easy to use, modern, and trustworthy, enabling businesses to work efficiently, compliantly, and mobile.

Sage Intacct is a cloud-based financial management software designed for small to medium size nonprofits. It offers more advanced nonprofit features including fund accounting, nonprofit revenue recognition, grant management, spend management, and multi-entity consolidations.

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