Map Your Funding Mix
Catalog every revenue source that supports your organization. Identify the ratio of federal, state, local, philanthropic, individual, corporate, and earned revenue dollars.
PILLAR 1
The Money
Funding Architecture. Financial stability in prevention is often misunderstood. Rising total dollars can hide a shrinking pipeline of new opportunities.
Funding Architecture
Leaders can treat long-term funding as a foundation and runway, not as permanent protection from disruption. This time capital gives leaders room to prepare early, diversify revenue, strengthen systems, and build durable infrastructure before the next funding shift.
STRATEGIES
Strategies
Target Vulnerabilities
Flag any single grant that accounts for more than 25% of your operating budget. Create a focused plan to reduce that concentration.
Build the Runway
Use stable grant periods to invest in revenue diversification, donor cultivation, and earned revenue models.
PLANNING TOOLS
Put this pillar into practice.
Use the related planning tool to apply The Money to your organization, or run the 24-Month Continuity Stress Test for a broader view across all four pillars.
Visualize revenue sources, identify concentration risks, and pinpoint diversification opportunities.