Most nonprofits hire one part time person and hope a whole finance function arrives with them. It never does, and that is not your fault. We install the whole function. Start with a free Nonprofit Finance Systems Audit: tell us what you run on today, and we send back a graded assessment and a live dashboard built for your organization.
Free, and yours to keep. No obligation, and no sales presentation to sit through.
There is an invoice sitting in the executive director's text messages waiting on a yes. Someone on staff paid for program supplies out of pocket in April and is still waiting. A funder wants a spending report by Friday, and a board member asked a straight question last month that nobody in the room could answer.
None of that means your people are bad at their jobs. It means nobody was ever given a finance function to run. You have been holding it together with a part time bookkeeper, a spreadsheet, and goodwill.
A bookkeeper records what already happened. That is one job, and it matters. A finance function is the set of decisions made before the money moves.
Hiring one part time person and expecting all of that was never going to work. Most nonprofits have tried it. The problem is structural, not personal, and it is why the same nine things are broken at almost every organization we look at.
Records what already happened, after it happened.
This is what we grade in your audit, and it is the fastest way to see the size of the gap between what you have today and what your organization actually needs. The marker on each one shows how much of it a typical bookkeeper carries. You get all ten with us.
Who is allowed to approve what, and can you prove it later.Broken: invoices approved by text. The executive director is the bottleneck.
Staff and volunteers made whole quickly, with receipts attached.Broken: people paying out of pocket and waiting. Card charges with no memo.
Staff paid on time, with wages split across the programs and grants that fund them.Broken: one payroll line, with no split by program or grant.
Books closed on a fixed calendar, not whenever there is time.This is the one a bookkeeper fully covers. It is one of ten.
We recommend the right donor, accounting and payroll tools for your size and set them up for you. Then we connect them, so the numbers move on their own instead of being keyed in twice.Broken: manual re-entry every week between three systems that do not talk.
Your leadership writes the budget. That is your call, not ours. We advise on it, pressure test the assumptions against what your books actually show, and give the board something they can track against all year.Broken: approved in January, never opened again in June.
Knowing how many months of unrestricted operating cash you are holding.Broken: nobody has ever calculated it.
Accurate acknowledgment letters and year-end statements out to every donor in January, reconciled to the books.Broken: statements that do not tie to deposits, sent late or by hand.
Reporting your board can read, with program and fund detail and context.Broken: a raw export handed over with no explanation.
W-9s collected up front and filings made on time.Broken: contractors paid with no W-9 on file. Filings late or missed.
This is where general bookkeepers get nonprofits wrong, and it is the part of the audit that tends to surprise people the most.
You tell us what you run on today. About ten minutes, and you can do it from your phone in a parking lot. Then we go to work and send back the whole picture.
Where you are strong, where you are exposed, and what a real finance function would be doing that nobody is doing at your organization today.
Not a PDF and not a slide deck. A working dashboard built for your organization, so you can see your operation the way it is supposed to look. Yours to keep.
In order, with the reasoning. Named tools, what to keep, what to cut, what to switch.
Restricted funds, grant tracking, functional expenses, donor reconciliation, cash controls and board reporting, checked against how nonprofits are actually supposed to run.
The clock starts once your submission is in. If something needs a quick clarification we will ask, and we would rather get it right than get it fast.
Every audit comes with a working dashboard on your own private link. Not a PDF, not a slide. Below is a live one, built for a sample nonprofit with example numbers. Scroll it, click it, and read it the way your board would.
Because plenty of nonprofits get an audit and never become clients, and we are fine with that. If your systems are in good shape we will tell you so and you will owe us nothing.
The nonprofits that read the assessment and think we are never going to do all this ourselves are the ones who hire us. We would rather be the firm that gave you a straight answer than the firm that sent a proposal in two weeks.
If you go forward with us, you will have simpler systems and complete clarity on your organization's finances within 30 days. If you don't, you get every dollar back. Here is exactly what clarity means, so there is nothing to argue about on day 30.
Reconciled, categorized and fund correct, through last month. No backlog, no guessing.
Revenue, funds, and budget versus actual in a single place you can read in five minutes.
Tools consolidated, duplicates cut, and a written blueprint of what runs where and why.
Any financial question your board asks, answered from your own dashboard in under five minutes.
Any one of those four not true on day 30? You get a full refund.
This is not a comparison between bookkeepers. It is a comparison between a role and a department.
"You have been unbelievably helpful!! THANK YOU."
Cleaned up multi-fund nonprofit books across programs and cut monthly close from three weeks to under one, with donor-ready reporting.
"Phenomenal working with Turnkey CFO. Our finances have never been clearer."
Gained visibility into giving trends, fund balances, and ministry spend they'd never had, so leadership now leads with insight instead of guessing.
"You have LITERALLY changed my life… there is Jesus, then my wife, then you!!"
Giving intelligence delivered every week, bill pay routed through a real approval chain, and books that close on time, so the finance work stopped landing on the lead pastor's desk.
As the Lead and founding pastor of a growing church, I've carried a wide range of responsibilities, but detailed financial management isn't my area of expertise. Partnering with Turnkey CFO has given us integrity and transparency through clear, independent oversight of our income and expenses.
What sets Turnkey apart is that they don't simply manage our books - they partner with us. They've worked alongside me and my team to develop customized budgets, reporting dashboards, and tools that provide real-time insight without hours of digging through spreadsheets. The information they provide equips both our staff and elder board to make wise financial and organizational decisions with confidence.
One of the things I appreciate most is the relationship we've built. When I call Turnkey, I'm not speaking with a different person each time or having to re-explain our ministry. I know exactly who I'm working with, and they know our church, our financial history, our goals, and the unique needs of our ministry. That consistency has built a level of trust and confidence that is difficult to find.
Ricky has been exceptional throughout - taking time to customize reports for our elder board, hopping on Zoom calls, walking through financials, and making sure our leaders have the clarity they need.
If you're a pastor or church leader considering partnering with Turnkey CFO, I'd encourage you to take the next step. They are far more than an accounting service - they become a trusted extension of your ministry. Their expertise, personalized approach, and commitment to the financial health of your church allow you to spend less time managing finances and more time leading the mission God has called you to.
If you're looking for a team that values integrity, provides exceptional insight, and truly cares about helping your church thrive, I recommend Turnkey without hesitation.
That is not a marketing limit. Installing a finance function properly takes real hours from real people, and every organization we take on gets a named partner who knows them by name. We would rather do a handful of these properly than a long list of them badly. The audit itself is always free and always available, whether or not there is room to onboard you this year.
Every nonprofit we onboard gets the full install, not a trimmed down version of it. When we are at capacity the audit stays free, and we will tell you honestly when room opens up.
Book my free auditInstalling the function properly takes a few months to settle. Nonprofits that start this fall have year-end giving and their first donor statement season fully covered. After that we are working against the clock with you.
Timing1099s are due January 31, and donors expect their year-end statements right alongside them. If your giving records are not clean, January is when you find out, in front of your donors. Nonprofits onboarding now are clean long before it matters.
Hard deadlineAny catch-up work is quoted by how far behind the books are. Every month you wait adds another month of it, so the same decision costs more next quarter than it does today.
CompoundingClean cutover, no split month books. Miss a cutover and the next one is a month later, which pushes your first closed month back with it.
Cohort startYou spend about ten minutes. We do the rest, and you decide at the end with the whole picture in front of you.
About ten minutes. Your accounting software, donor platform, payroll, how bills get paid, who does the books today. Not sure is a perfectly good answer to any of it.
The graded assessment across all ten pillars, your prioritized fix list, and a live dashboard on your own private link. You do nothing at all during this part.
Keep the assessment and the dashboard either way. If you want us to install the rest of the function, we start on the first. If not, we part as friends.
Pick a time that works. We will walk through what you run on today, and your assessment and live dashboard follow shortly after.
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