Grant reporting · Outcomes · Board decks
Impact reporting your funders will trust
Program data pulled from wherever it lives, turned into numbers a funder can check and a board can act on.
The quarter you know too well
The grant report is due in ten days. Attendance is in a sign-in binder, outcomes are in a survey tool, donations are in the donor database, and the numbers have to agree with what you told the funder last year.
So somebody on a small staff rebuilds the whole thing by hand, again, and the board deck gets made the night before the meeting.
That work is repeatable. Once the sources are connected and the outcome definitions are written down, most of it stops being work at all.
What Mobile Bay Data builds for nonprofits
Funder report templates
Outputs shaped to each funder's requirements, so the quarterly report is a review rather than a rebuild.
Outcome dashboards
Participants served, retention, outcome achievement and cost per participant, by program and by period.
Program evaluation support
Clear outcome definitions, a measurement plan, and honest analysis of whether the program is moving them.
Survey analysis
Questionnaire design, analysis of the responses, and charts a board can read in ten seconds.
Why this background fits
Funder reporting is as much a communication problem as a data problem. Mobile Bay Data is led by an analyst with an MA in Development Communication and an MSc in Communication, formal training in research methods, and experience with peer-reviewed work. That means outcome measures that stand up to scrutiny and write-ups that do not overclaim — which is exactly what a program officer is reading for.
More about the owner-led approach is on the about page, and the sample dashboards includes an outcome dashboard built on public grant data.
Tools we connect to
- Bloomerang
- Little Green Light
- DonorPerfect
- Excel
- Google Forms
- Google Sheets
Nonprofit pricing
Data Health Check
$650
Five days, written findings.
Outcome dashboard
From $1,800
Two to three weeks, with training.
Monthly reporting
$400/mo
Budgets under $2M, aligned to grant cycles.
Questions nonprofits ask
Our data is in three systems and a stack of paper forms. Is that too messy?
No. That is the usual starting point. Part of the work is deciding which system is the source of truth for each number.
Can you write to a specific funder's template?
Yes. Send the reporting requirements and we build the outputs to match, so the numbers drop straight into the form.
Do you do program evaluation, or only reporting?
Both, within limits. We design outcome measures, analyse survey data and write up findings. We are not an accredited external evaluator for federal audits.
Is there nonprofit pricing?
Yes. Monthly reporting is $400 a month for registered nonprofits with budgets under $2M, and grant-cycle project work is quoted as a fixed fee.
Bring your next grant deadline to a free call
Send the reporting requirements ahead of time and I will explain what it would take to make them repeatable.