NIMARA · SECTOR SCALE
$244B
Annual economic activity.
A major part of Canada's national economy.
Operating systems for nonprofits
Make your nonprofit easier to fund, run, and prove.
See what your organization can prove, where evidence is missing, and what should be built next — through a human-led review of seven operating domains.
Proof Map
5 of 7 domainsOperating evidence at a glance
- 01Governance & reportingReady
- 02Financial healthPartial
- 03Programs & outcomesReady
- 04People & cultureMissing
- 05Data & ITPartial
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Why systems matter
The work is bigger than the systems running it.
Canada's nonprofit sector employs about 2.7 million people and moves $244B a year. Most of that work runs on stretched teams, scattered tools, and operating systems that have not kept up with what funders and boards now expect to see.
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Sources: Imagine Canada, SectorSource, Statistics Canada. Figures are sector-wide indicators.
The problem
More is being asked of you than your systems were built to carry.
More services, more restricted funding, more outcomes to prove, more reporting — but the work still runs on scattered spreadsheets, disconnected tools, and staff memory. So when a funder or board asks you to prove it, pulling it together becomes a scramble.
Approvals live in inboxes.
Budgets live in spreadsheets.
Receipts live in shared drives.
Process lives in people's heads.
Our diagnostic
Start with the Nimara Organizational Health Check.
NOHC is a human-led operating diagnostic for nonprofits. It shows your leadership what you can prove, where evidence is missing, where you are exposed, and what should be built next. Practical. Evidence-based. Funder-aware.
What you can prove.
The policies, evidence, and workflows that hold up under funder, board, and audit review.
Where you're exposed.
Missing evidence, unclear processes, and operating risk that funders, boards, and auditors will notice before you do.
What to build next.
The systems, workflows, trackers, and evidence structures to prioritize first.
Process
How Nimara works.
A four-part cycle that helps nonprofits prove what works, fix what doesn't, and stay funder-ready.
01
Assess
NOHC shows what your organization can prove, where evidence is missing, and what should be built next.
02
Build
We build the systems, workflows, and evidence trails the diagnostic revealed — sized to your team.
03
Protect
System Care keeps what we built working. Light monitoring, structured review, and quarterly check-ins prevent drift.
04
Recheck
Annual NOHC Recheck keeps you funder-ready as your organization grows.
Governance & Strategy
How you decide and direct. Board oversight, strategic alignment, decision rights, and the documents that show your organization is steered with intent.
Finance & Compliance
How you handle money and meet rules. Controls, reconciliation, audit-readiness, and the evidence funders and regulators expect to see.
HR & People
How you hire, support, and keep staff. Roles, policies, onboarding, and the people practices that keep an organization stable as it grows.
Data, Systems & AI
How your tools, files, and AI use hold up. Where data lives, who can reach it, and whether your systems are funder-, board-, and audit-defensible.
Fundraising & Donor Standards
How you raise, track, and report on funds. Donor stewardship, restricted-fund accounting, and the proof trail funders rely on.
Volunteer Management
How you recruit, train, and protect volunteers. Screening, onboarding, supervision, and the safeguards that keep people and programs safe.
Program & Evaluation
How you run programs and prove outcomes. Logic models, indicators, and the evidence that shows your work is making the change you say it is.
NOHC engagements
Start with the level of clarity your organization needs.
Begin with a light Snapshot or choose a paid NOHC review when your team needs evidence-based clarity for decisions, reporting, or board conversations.
Free Snapshot
Free
No documents needed · Response within 48 hours
A light intake that identifies your top operating pressure and recommended next step.
Start Free SnapshotNOHC Evidence Review
$3,500
Includes 60-minute Decision Session
A focused evidence review for EDs and operating teams that need to see what can be proven and what is missing.
Ask About Evidence ReviewNOHC Board-Ready Review
$6,500
Includes 90-minute Leadership Session
A deeper NOHC review for leadership teams that need board-facing clarity and a stronger decision package.
Ask About Board-Ready ReviewFor teams ready to build
Already know what you need to build?
Some teams come to us with the priority already clear. We start with a short scoping step to confirm it's the right build — then move into Build.
Scoped to your project
Ask about a BuildBuild Sprint and System Care are scoped after NOHC. NOHC does not guarantee funding, audit results, compliance outcomes, or board approval.
Deliverables
See what is working, missing, and next.
Most of what you need is already in your stack. Nimara organizes the record across it — without replacing the tools you already use.
Salesforce
Forms
Excel
Drive
Gmail
QuickBooks
Proof Map
- GovernanceReady
- FinancePartial
- People & cultureMissing
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NOHC does not replace your tools. It maps the evidence, decisions, and workflows scattered across them.
Operating risks
The problems Nimara helps nonprofits catch early.
Common operating patterns we see across growing nonprofit teams.
Before a funder report
Funder asks for proof. You have files, not evidence.
NOHC turns scattered docs into a clear map of what holds up under review, what's missing, and what to structure first — before the deadline.
See the patternWhen the org changes
Tribal knowledge walks out the door.
NOHC surfaces the workflows, decisions, and evidence that live in one person's head — and shows your team what to document next.
See the patternBefore a board decision
Board wants a number nobody can produce.
NOHC maps where evidence lives, what's reliable, and what's still missing — so leadership decisions rest on real signal, not guesswork.
See the patternNot sure where your organization is exposed?
From the founder
“Every nonprofit deserves the systems that the best-run organizations already have. That's what we build.
Ben Serunyigo
Co-founder and CEO, Nimara Canada
Start with the Free Snapshot.
Answer a few light questions. We'll identify your top operating pressure and recommended next step within 48 hours.
Want to talk first?
Book a 30-minute Fit Session. We'll see if NOHC is right for your team — no commitment, no upsell.
NOHC is not an audit, legal review, accounting review, compliance guarantee, funding decision, or AI-only assessment.