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For nonprofits & social enterprises

Funding is a promise. You are the ones who keep it.

Nonprofits and social enterprises are where money becomes meals served, homes kept, businesses started and children back in school. No one is closer to the change, or knows better what works. That knowledge deserves books that carry it, not a pile of funder reports written after hours.

Impact accounting puts it on the books, next to the money, where every funder can see it and your own team can learn from it.

What changes when your impact is on the books

Report once, answer every funder

Grant reports, contract reviews and framework disclosures all come from the same entries, each in the funder’s own format. The hours spent rebuilding the same numbers six different ways go back to the programme.

How: each fact is entered once into one chart of accountsThe shared map of what gets counted, the master list of accounts every entry posts to., alongside the fund accounting you already keep. Every report is a different reading of it.

Proof that holds up

When a funder, an auditor or your board asks how you know, the answer is already there, down to the household, patient or student your programme served.

How: every figure opens to the entries beneath it, and every entry to its source, in double-entryEvery value is recorded twice, once as where it came from and once as where it went, so the books check themselves. books your auditor already knows how to read.

A stronger case for the next grant or investment

Funders and impact investors see your results in balanced books they can check, not only in a story. That makes the case for a renewal, a larger grant or a first investment.

How: your impact accounts sit beside your financial statements and follow the same accounting principles.

Programmes that get better every year

Compare what each programme costs with what it achieves, and put the next budget where it does the most good, not where it reads best in a report.

How: goals sit on the accounts, strategies are recorded against the goals they serve, and each close shows what moved and by how much.

What it looks like, whatever your mission

Community lenders

Community lenders

A community lender answers in two directions at once: up to the investors and agencies that fund it, and down to the borrowers it serves. Both run on the same books, so the funder pack rolls up from the entries that trace to each borrower.

Sedoha Search accounts, entries, sources…
Chart of accounts · FY2027 Balanced ✓
AccountBalance
Social capital$2.9M
Small-business lending$1.7M
Affordable housing$1.2M
Human capital$1.1M
Financial$3.4M
Manufactured$0.5M
Natural capital$0.3M
Intellectual$0.2M
What sits behind the small-business lending figure?
Income gains for 240 borrower businesses, booked from repayment-cycle data and measured against baseline. The funder pack draws on these same entries.

Illustrative example with synthetic entities and figures. Capital figures are valuations of impact, not cash.

Housing and human services

County contracts, foundation grants and government programmes each ask about the same families, in their own format. Record each service once, and every report draws from it.

How many families were still housed a year after placement?

412 of 468 families (88%), booked from case records and matched to each contract’s own definition of “stably housed.”

Which report is due next, and is it ready?

The county housing contract, due in 9 days. 12 of its 14 figures are already in the books; the other 2 are waiting on third-quarter case notes.

Illustrative exchange with synthetic figures.

Education and youth programmes

Schools, foundations and state grants all want to know whether students are better off. Keep attendance and results on the books, and show the change year over year.

Did our after-school students improve in reading?

71% moved up at least one reading level, against 43% of similar students who were not enrolled, booked from district assessment data.

What does that improvement cost us per student?

$1,150 per student who moved up a level, down from $1,420 last year after tutoring moved in-house.

Illustrative exchange with synthetic figures.

Community health

Health grants, payor contracts, foundation reports and the board each want different numbers about the same patients. Enter each visit once, and let every report read from it.

Chart of accounts Each fact entered once
Government Health centre grant
Patients served18,400
Uninsured share34%
Payor Quality contract
Blood pressure controlled67%
Follow-up in 7 days81%
Foundation Grant report
Health workers funded22
Human capital+$2.6M
Internal Board review · Q4
Cost per visit$142
Against target74%

Illustrative outputs with synthetic figures — one ledger underneath all four.

Social enterprises

A business with a purpose answers to customers and to impact investors. Keep revenue and impact in the same books, so the case for growth is one an investor can check.

Sedoha Search accounts, entries, sources…
Chart of accounts · FY2027 Balanced ✓
AccountBalance
Human capital$2.7M
Household health$1.6M
Time saved gathering fuel$1.1M
Natural capital$1.2M
Social capital$0.6M
Financial$4.8M
Manufactured$0.9M
Intellectual$0.2M
What supports the natural-capital figure in the investor update?
Emissions avoided by 26,000 stoves sold, with use confirmed by in-home sensors on a sample of 1,200, measured against open-fire cooking.

Illustrative example with synthetic entities and figures. Capital figures are valuations of impact, not cash.

Put your impact on the books.

Bring the reports your funders ask for. Nothing else to prepare.

Or email inquiries@sedoha.com.