Our work is most powerful when we partner toward a shared goal. We bring together nonprofits, community leaders, networks, funders, and investors to fuel solutions shaped by and for communities.
How We Collaborate
Maximizing Impact Investments
Our fund management experts work with impact investors to deploy capital into community-centered loan funds that grow local wealth, build resilience, and advance equitable outcomes.
Moving Capital into Communities
When nonprofits face funding gaps, we design responsive loan funds with community, philanthropic, and public sector partners to meet urgent and long-term capital needs.
Co-designing Consulting Projects
We listen deeply to tailor our consulting engagements to our clients’ goals and realities. Trust and responsiveness are the cornerstone of how we work.
Advocating Together
Working with others, we raise up the challenges facing nonprofits, conduct essential primary research, and advocate for solutions that empower robust nonprofits to best serve communities.
Innovative Approaches to Complex Challenges

Building Cross-sector Collaborations
NFF collaborates with funders, peers, coalitions, and networks driving systemic change, leveraging our expertise to align strategies and amplify collective impact.

Aligning Funders’ Goals with Nonprofit Needs
We help funders strengthen the nonprofit sector by aligning grantmaking with actual needs – including full cost funding and flexible operating support.

Partnering to Deploy Diverse Capital Tools
We connect nonprofits to a range of capital – from grants and donor-advised funds to impact loans and recoverable grants – matching the right tools to community goals.
Collaboration Starts Here
Let’s Get Started
Let’s unlock capital, co-create solutions, and expand impact – together.
Funders & Investors
Explore how NFF works with funders and investors to design consulting services and capital programs that strengthen nonprofits and communities.
Highlights

A Dynamic Partnership with Black Equity Collective
Trusted collaboration providing consulting and coaching to BEC members, and a recent survey about how Black-led nonprofits are contributing to California’s economy.
With Black Equity Collective

Building Equitable Assets for Communities and Nonprofits (BEACoN)
Capital and technical assistance for nonprofits and mission-aligned developers creating and preserving community assets to build local wealth and power.

Strategic Innovation Fund
Substantial unrestricted grants from MacKenzie Scott and the Ford Foundation seeded our Strategic Innovation Fund to support strategically aligned projects.
With MacKenzie Scott, the Ford Foundation, the Charles and Ellen Schwab Foundation

Using Data to Advocate for Los Angeles Nonprofits
Research and advocacy for LA-based nonprofits to receive timely government payments, and full cost funding that supports quality jobs for staff.
With Los Angeles Opportunity Youth Collaborative, Committee for Greater LA, HR&A Advisors

Accelerating Permanent Supportive Housing Fund
This $16 million fund provides enterprise-level, flexible predevelopment financing to support developers’ work increasing the number of projects in development.
With the California Community Foundation, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, UniHealth Foundation, First Citizens Bank, and the CDFI Fund

Inside NFF’s Financial Management Consulting
Consulting team members share what it’s like to work with NFF and some of our core financial management concepts.
Insights

Commentary
September 25, 2025
The Hidden Power of Nonprofits in Finance, Community, and Social Change

Blog
September 23, 2025
How Nonprofit Leaders Can Navigate Financial Uncertainty

News
September 17, 2025
Survey: NYC Nonprofits are Enduring Under Strain of Funding Pullbacks and Severe Government Payment Delays

News
September 3, 2025