Nonprofit Finance and Operations

Budget and Forecast Model

This Excel model builds a nonprofit's next-year budget from positions, program costs, and revenue sources. A single switch on the settings sheet moves the whole model between base, conservative, and growth scenarios.

Sample data. All names, organizations, and figures are fictional.

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About this sample

The model starts with a personnel sheet that lists every position with its FTE, current rate, start month, benefits, payroll taxes, and how its cost splits across programs and support functions. Non-personnel costs are entered by program and marked fixed, inflation, or volume, which decides how each line moves between scenarios, and shared costs are spread by FTE. Revenue comes from the current-year projection, government contract awards, the event plan, and a grant pipeline weighted by the probability of each stage.

The summary shows the scenario chosen, expenses by function, revenue compared with the current-year projection, and all three scenarios side by side, with native Excel charts. A monthly spread turns the annual budget into the amounts a finance director would load into QuickBooks and shows the months when the budget runs a deficit, which helps with cash planning before the year starts.

What it includes

  • Position-level personnel budget with salary, benefits rate, payroll taxes, start month, and allocation across programs
  • Non-personnel expenses by program, with shared costs spread by FTE
  • Revenue by source built from current-year projections and contract awards
  • Grant pipeline weighted by stage probability, counting only the share that falls in the budget year
  • Base, conservative, and growth scenarios driven from one settings sheet
  • Summary with expenses by function, revenue comparison, and all three scenarios side by side
  • Monthly spread for loading the budget into QuickBooks

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