NIMARA · SECTOR SCALE
$244B
Annual economic activity.
A major part of Canada's national economy.
Outside Canada? Our global home, nimara.org, is launching soon for international programs. In the meantime, reach us at hello@nimara.ca.
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
NOHC.proof-map.v1 · Sample preview
Most nonprofits do not have a funding problem. They have an operating system problem.
OPERATING READINESS
Visibility at Day 90.
The first phase of a Nimara Build lifts leadership visibility from near-zero to operating-ready in roughly twelve weeks.
Operating readiness
Illustrative · first 90 days
01 · VISIBILITY
Leadership sees what is actually happening, every day.
02 · TEAM RELIEF
The team stops doing the same work twice.
03 · CAPACITY
Every dollar raised lands on a system that can carry it.
Not sure where you are sitting? Start with a 30-minute Fit Session. We will tell you what fits, and what is not yet right for us.
Book a Fit SessionSame leader. Same week. Different system.
Most nonprofit leaders are not the problem. The system around them is. Here is what changes when the operating layer goes in.
01 · WITHOUT AN OPERATING LAYER
Friday, 8:23 PM.
The leader knows what to do. The tools do not talk to each other. Reports take two weeks. Every funder question is a project. Burnout is the cost.
02 · WITH THE OPERATING LAYER
Friday, 4:15 PM.
Same leader. The Operating Portal sits over a connective layer that keeps the tools wired and the data current. She opens the dashboard and sees the answer. No scramble. No request. Judgement stays with the leader.
Most nonprofit leaders are doing the work of three people because the system around them does not exist. We build the system. The leader stays the leader.
Book a Fit SessionWhy 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.
See how Nimara works
Sources: Imagine Canada, SectorSource, Statistics Canada. Figures are sector-wide indicators.
We integrate technology, data, and strategy. So the systems serve the mission, not the other way around.
Three ways to work with Nimara.
We work across the seven operational domains of nonprofits, charities, foundations, associations, intermediaries and International NGOs. Diagnose what is true today, build the operating system your strategy actually runs on, then keep it honest as the organization grows. Practical. Evidence-based. Built to last.
NOHC · OPERATING SNAPSHOT68%
Governance75
Finance61
People84
Data & Systems36
Fundraising67
Programme72
Communications49
7 domains · evidence-anchored · pathway-routed
01 · NOHC
See what is true today.
A structured read across the seven operational domains. Tells your leadership where the strategy is operable, where it is not, and what to build next.
EXECUTIVELIVE
1,247reached Q3
72%budget on plan
On track14 of 18 milestones
OPERATIONS · intake · escalation · reports
- Participant intake · 12 new this week
- Escalation queue · 3 open
- Q3 report · ready for ED sign-off
- Funder reporting · auto-assembled
branded as yours · platform invisible to staff
02 · BUILD
Make the system real.
The connective layer between the tools you already pay for and the operating system your team actually logs into. Branded as yours. The platform underneath is invisible.
SYSTEM CARE · 12-MONTH CADENCE
Q1review
Q2change
Q3training
Q4recheck
senior eyes on the operating system as you grow
03 · SYSTEM CARE
Keep the system running.
Quarterly reviews, training as the team grows, escalation support, and changes handled in days. A senior pair of eyes on the operating system as the organization grows.
Process
How Nimara works.
A four-part cycle that helps nonprofits prove what works, fix what does not, and stay funder-ready as they grow.
01
Assess
The Nimara Organizational Health Check reads across the seven operational domains. It tells you what you can prove, where evidence is missing, and what to build next.
02
Build
We build the operating system the diagnosis revealed. Database, dashboards, workflows, reporting. Sized to your organization, not ours.
03
Protect
System Care keeps what we built running. Quarterly reviews, training as the team grows, escalation support, changes handled in days.
04
Recheck
Annual NOHC Recheck against your original baseline. Tells you what has changed, what still works, and what to extend next.
THE CYCLE CONTINUES
OUR SCOPE
The seven operating domains.
Six describe the work an organization does. A seventh wires them together.
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.
People & Culture
How you hire, support, and keep staff and volunteers. Roles, policies, supervision, and the cultural practices that keep an organization stable as it grows.
Fundraising & Donor Standards
How you raise, track, and report on funds. Donor stewardship, restricted fund accounting, and the proof that funders rely on.
Program & Evaluation
How you run programs and prove outcomes. Logic models, indicators, and the cadence that shows your work is making the change you say it is.
Communications
How you show up externally. Brand voice, funder stewardship, member communication, public presence, advocacy, and the crisis playbook funders increasingly expect.
THE CONNECTIVE LAYER
Data, Systems & AI
How your tools, files, and AI all hold up. Where data lives, who can reach it, and whether your systems are funder-, board-, and audit-defensible. This is the layer that wires the other six together so the work can run.
Wires
6 → 1
DOMAINS · ONE SUBSTRATE
WORK IN FLIGHT
The kinds of organizations we work with.
A look at who we're working with right now. We keep names private while projects are underway, and share the full stories once the work is done and clients are happy to.
From the founder
“Every nonprofit deserves the systems that the best-run organizations already have. That's what we build.
Ben Serunyigo
Founder, Nimara
PRICING
Two ways in.Yours to choose.
NOHC
A structured operating diagnostic across the seven domains.
$3,500
Optional upgrade
Add the Portal View
+$3,000
TOTAL $6,500
What's included
- Full NOHC across the seven operating domains
- 60-minute Decision Session
- Proof Map · Exposure Map · Build Map
- PDF Decision Summary
Build
A custom operating system, scoped to your organization.
Custom
What's included
- Paid discovery interview to confirm scope
- Custom build to your workflows, programs, and team
- Built on the tools and systems you already have
- Sized to one domain, several, or a federation
- 3 months of free post-handoff support, then optional System Care
By the way
Not ready to commit? Try the Free Snapshot. A light 48-hour intake that surfaces your top operating pressure and the right next step.
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.