Funder and board reporting for Detroit and Michigan nonprofits
The outcome numbers your funders and board ask for, pulled from the systems you already use and produced the same way every time, instead of rebuilt by hand before each deadline.
Based in metro Detroit, available to nonprofits across Michigan. Fixed fee, quoted before work starts.
What changes
Most nonprofits already have the data: a donor database, program spreadsheets, attendance sheets and the accounting system. What they lack is one place where it comes together the same way twice.
One set of numbers for every funder
Participants served, outcomes reached and dollars spent, defined once and reused, so the number in one funder's report matches the next one and last year's.
A board dashboard that ends in decisions
Which programs are behind target, which grant reports are due next, and how many months of cash are on hand, on one page the board can read in five minutes.
A reporting calendar
Every funder's due dates and the numbers each one asks for, so nothing is assembled the night before.
Definitions that survive staff turnover
What counts as a participant, a completion or a returning client, written down where the next program manager will find it.
How it starts
Step 1
A 30-minute fit call
Which funders you report to, where the data lives today, and which report takes the most hours to put together.
Step 2
A look at your data
Read access to the exports or systems that report needs. Participant-level data stays in your accounts.
Step 3
One report, fixed fee
Usually the most painful funder report or the board dashboard. Scope, price and delivery date are agreed in writing before work starts.
Step 4
Handover
Documentation and a named owner on your staff, so the next report runs without us. More only if the first one earns it.
What the fit call will ask
- Which funders do you report to, and how often?
- Where do program and participant numbers live today?
- Who on staff puts the reports together now, and how long does it take?
- Does your board get a dashboard, a packet or a spreadsheet?
- Which number do funders question most often?
What Palavir does not do
Grant writing, fundraising, program evaluation design or donor solicitation. Palavir builds the reporting that shows what your programs did; your team and evaluators decide what to measure.
Nonprofit reporting questions
What executive directors, development leads and finance staff ask before getting help with reporting.
Palavir builds reporting for Detroit and Michigan nonprofits: the outcome numbers funders ask for, pulled from the systems you already use, defined once and produced the same way each time, plus a board dashboard that shows which programs are behind and which reports are due next.
It is a fixed fee, quoted after a 30-minute call, based on how many funders and data sources the report covers. It starts with one report so you can judge the work before committing to more. No hourly billing.
Not necessarily. If your board reads a spreadsheet or a PDF, the report can be a workbook that refreshes from your data. A Power BI dashboard makes sense when several people need to look at the numbers between meetings.
Participant-level data stays in your systems and accounts. Funder and board reports use totals and rates, and anything that could identify a person is left out unless a funder requires it.
No. Palavir produces the numbers and the reporting; grant writing stays with your development team or grant writer.
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