NFF activates your contributions and investments – including grants, Donor Advised Fund (DAF) gifts, recoverable grants, impact loans, and program-related investments – to support high-impact capacity building, advocacy, research, and lending.

Our Partners

Foundations & Funders

We collaborate with philanthropic funders, managing loan funds and programs that strengthen nonprofits and improve how funding flows to the communities that need it most.

Financial Institutions

We help banks meet their Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) goals, investing in low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities.

Impact Investors

We advise and manage program related investments (PRIs) and sectoral or geographically focused mission-driven funds for private and public investors.

Peer CDFIs

As a CDFI ourselves, we collaborate and co-invest with peer institutions to expand access to capital and address funding inequities in underserved communities.

Public Sector Agencies

We deploy New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) and other government financing sources, and design loan funds and deploy capital on behalf of public sector agencies.

Contact us for collaboration and partnership opportunities.

Funders

Maximize Funding Impact

Flexible philanthropic funding fuels NFF’s work – strengthening nonprofits, advancing community-led solutions, and building innovative financing – to meet real needs through consulting, engagement, advocacy, and knowledge sharing.

Financial Management Consulting

We help nonprofits, grantee cohorts, and community-led groups strengthen financial management capabilities for long-term resilience.

Knowledge & Resources

NFF equips nonprofits and funders with tailored content and free tools to strengthen financial resilience and improve funding practices.

Community Engagement

We listen deeply, learn from lived experience, and build solutions with trusted partners rooted in community.

Social Sector Advocacy

We work to shift policies and funding norms so nonprofits get the resources they need – when and how they need them.

Investors

Invest in Community Success

Your investment provides nonprofits with the financial capital needed to grow, adapt, and sustain their missions. We co-design trust-based initiatives to bring responsive financing and financial technical assistance to organizations based on community-identified priorities.

Impact Lending & Technical Assistance

Together, we equip nonprofits to access capital and assess the use of debt as a financial tool for liquidity, growth and change, with grant-funded financial management consulting.

Fund Management

We have significant experience designing and administering loan funds to respond to specific geographic, sectoral, and capital needs.

Increasing Access to Financing

We partner with philanthropies to design creative capital solutions – like interest rate buy-downs, credit enhancements, and pass-through operating grants – that make capital more accessible and affordable for community-based organizations.

Ready to Fund or Invest?

Put Your Dollars to Work

Let’s work together to meet community-identified needs and increase nonprofits’ access to resources, financial management, and planning expertise.

Highlights

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.

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

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.

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

Trinity Church Grantee Loan Fund

$8 million in bridge loans was deployed to 15 organizations, and technical assistance to 19 organizations that experienced financial challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With Trinity Church Wall Street

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

We had a phenomenal experience working with NFF, and our community partners (our borrowers) spoke so highly of the process, too. In addition to providing top-notch services with unmatched expertise in the nonprofit finance sector, the NFF team is a true pleasure to work with. We look forward to growing our partnership years into the future!

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