Our work is most powerful when we partner toward a shared goal. We bring together nonprofits, community leaders, networks, funders, and investors around funded initiatives that generate learning, expand access to capital, and strengthen the social sector.

Together, we advance 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.

Advancing Sector Solutions

We partner with funders, networks, and nonprofit leaders to conduct research, surface sector-wide challenges, 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, coordinate resources, and advance shared goals through funded initiatives and long-term partnerships.

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

Ready to work together?

Interested in engaging NFF on a funded initiative? We partner with organizations on fund design, financing strategies, cross-sector collaborations, research, and advocacy efforts that strengthen nonprofits and communities. Tell us about your opportunity.

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Explore how NFF works with funders and investors to design consulting services and capital programs that strengthen nonprofits and communities.

Highlights

The Heart of the Sector

New research on field-tested insights.

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

The Power of Community Ownership

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

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.

I appreciate the push you and partners are doing to center nonprofit worker well-being. In the process, I see you bringing along your peers in philanthropy. In addition, you are providing Executive Directors like me tools to use in our own advocacy to our philanthropic partners ... Thank you for your allyship in this work. I’m grateful to be moving forward together.

Zoë Melissa Polk

Executive Director, East Bay Community Law Center

Nonprofit Finance Fund has been a true thought partner and intentional, effective steward of grant funds to support the resilience of service providers working at the intersection of healthcare and homelessness. We’re grateful for their collaboration in fund design and administration and value their commitment to the organizational wellbeing of nonprofits doing vital work in our community.

Emily Skehan

Associate Director, Grantmaking, Community Benefit Giving Office, Cedars-Sinai

The Regional Foundation engaged Nonprofit Finance Fund to relaunch our Program Related Investment program. We received equity-centered strategic advisory support and thoughtful underwriting services to execute an end-to-end program from RFP development to loan commitment letters. We had a phenomenal experience working with NFF, and our community partners (our borrowers) spoke so highly of the process, too.

Samantha Mogil

Program Officer, Regional Foundation

The spirit of co-creation and learning between NFF and our Oregon nonprofit partners has resulted in capacity-building work customized to our nonprofits’ needs and delivered in a way that is truly relevant and accessible to a range of organizations.

Candy Solovjovs

Director of Programs, Meyer Memorial Trust