Sector Insights
Introducing Sector Insights:
A 360-Degree View of Your Nonprofit Sector
Sector Insights combines deep nonprofit leadership engagement, with the latest available financial data on the sector, to equip you with data-driven insights. It’s more than a tool—Sector Insights is a comprehensive strategic process designed to provide community foundations and philanthropic funders with a thorough understanding of their nonprofit landscape. Throughout the process, you’ll learn how to guide your local sector towards equity, resilience, and sustainability.
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Our three-part Sector Insights process will provide you with the tools to understand how to:
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Best allocate your resources.
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Forecast changes in policy on the fiscal state of the local nonprofit landscape.
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Engage stakeholders and build strategic partnerships that drive sustainable change.
Part I:
Engage with Local
Nonprofit Leaders
Gaining a clear understanding of the sector starts with understanding the perspectives of the people on the ground. Sector Insights starts by capturing the perspectives of your local nonprofit leaders through a regional sector-wide survey and small in-depth engagement sessions. These insights provide real-time data that your foundation can assess and leverage to make informed decisions.
Part II:
Gain a Dynamic Bird’s-Eye View of Your Sector
Sector Insights combines all available financial data on your nonprofit sector into one interactive tool, allowing you to sort and filter through data on your local workforce, compensation, capacity needs, funding trends, and more. This tool provides you with the data you need to identify and forecast risks, understand the impact of different philanthropic investments, and understand opportunities to support nonprofits in identifying outside funding sources. It also equips your local nonprofit leaders with information to conduct their own market research to support strategic development.
Part III: Move Your Sector Toward Equity, Resilience, and Sustainability
Engagement and data need to be paired with tangible, actionable strategies that advance a community. Our team has extensive experience working with foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies to turn insights into actionable strategies. Sector Insights culminates in the co-creation of actionable and aligned strategies that are practical for your community to implement collaboratively.
Why Choose Sangfroid Strategy?
Community foundations and philanthropic funders trust us because we are:
Data-Driven & Human-Centered: We combine rigorous data analysis with a deep understanding of community needs.​
Strategic Partners: We don’t just deliver reports; we become strategic allies, guiding you through the entire process.
Committed to Advancing Equity: We prioritize equity by elevating underrepresented voices and confronting systemic disparities head-on through our work.
Sector Insights Key Features
Increase Sector Intelligence
Understand the size, scope, financial health, workforce, demographics, needs, and opportunities to increase impact in your nonprofit landscape.
Improve Grantmaking Strategies
Use insights to inform and refine your grantmaking.
Identify Disparities
Spot gaps and disparities in resource allocation, compensation, representation, and more across your local nonprofit sector, ensuring more equitable access to philanthropic and government funding.
Build Nonprofit Capacity
Provide nonprofits with the tools they need to conduct their own market research, explore funding possibilities, and plan for sustainable growth.
Drive Systems-Level Social Change
Align your efforts with the most beneficial opportunities to drive lasting, equitable social change.
Maximize Grant Impact and
Drive Equitable Systems Change
With Sector Insights, your foundation can revolutionize your grantmaking by leveraging comprehensive data to ensure every dollar is making a meaningful difference. By uncovering untapped opportunities and identifying inequities, risks, and inefficiencies, you’ll equip your team with the tools to think at a systems level, achieve more equitable outcomes, and fuel long-term, systemic change.
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Case Study: Greater Cleveland Funders Collaborative
The Greater Cleveland Funders Collaborative, a partnership of 50+ nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies, sought to better understand and address racial disparities in the allocation of its resources. As a result of utilizing Sector Insights, the Collaborative was able to:
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Create and meet benchmarks for more equitable resource allocation after learning that even though 40% of nonprofits in the region were BIPOC-led, 90% of funding was allocated to White-led organizations.
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Implement regional initiatives supporting fair compensation practices in the sector after uncovering that Black-led nonprofits paid their staff 14% more than average, despite having 58% less annual revenue.
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Collaborate to align programming, attract national funding, and improve long-term sustainability for youth development and human services nonprofits in the region.
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Secure over $7M in state funding for capital improvements in the human services sector.
