Dynamic Budgets helps nonprofit finance teams run a controlled, collaborative budgeting process with unlimited users, approvals, audit trails, and ERP-integrated actuals. It’s purpose-built for budgeting and forecasting — not an everything-platform that takes months to implement.
If your budgeting cycle includes “email the template”, “merge versions”, “fix broken formulas”, and “hope the rollups match” — you’re not alone. Nonprofits often need to budget by fund, program, grant, department, location (and other dimensions), while maintaining transparency and auditability for leadership and board review.
Multiple spreadsheet versions create rework, errors, and missed approvals. “Final_v7_revised2” is not governance.
Spreadsheets make it hard to track who changed what, why it changed, and whether leadership approved it.
Fund/program/grant budgeting increases the risk of mismatched rollups and inconsistent mapping across templates.
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Budget the way you report. Maintain clean rollups across multiple dimensions, including funds, programs, grants, departments, sites, and locations.
Control your process with approvals and a full history of changes — supporting defensible budgets and smoother board review.
Model budgets using drivers like headcount, service volume, square footage, and program activity to improve accuracy and explainability.
Allocate shared services across programs or departments using consistent rules and sequences — a common nonprofit requirement.
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Build budgets aligned with restrictions and compare budget vs actual by grant and program.
Model each program’s costs and funding sources with consistent rollups for leadership and board review.
Collect inputs across sites using controlled templates and approvals — without spreadsheet sprawl.
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| Capability | Excel | Dynamic Budgets | Complex CPM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlimited users (broad participation) | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Approvals + audit trail | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Budget by fund / program / grant | Depends | ✓ | ✓ |
| ERP-integrated actuals | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fast implementation (budgeting-first) | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Simple to own & run | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
Reduce the time spent chasing versions, consolidating files, and re-checking rollups.
Approvals and audit trails make budgets more defensible and reduce last-minute surprises.
Nonprofit budgeting software helps organizations plan revenue and expenses by fund, program, grant, and department while enabling collaboration, approvals, audit trails, and reporting — without spreadsheet sprawl.
Yes. Dynamic Budgets supports dimension-based budgeting aligned to how nonprofits report (fund/program/grant/department/location and more depending on your ERP configuration).
Dynamic Budgets can synchronize actuals and master data from leading ERPs and optionally push approved budgets back, reducing manual exports/imports.
No — Dynamic Budgets is budgeting and forecasting focused. That’s what makes it faster to implement and easier to own compared with multi-module CPM suites.
Replace spreadsheets with a controlled process for budgeting by fund, program, and grant — with approvals, audit trails, and ERP-integrated actuals.
Optional internal links to add under this block: Sage Intacct budgeting · NetSuite budgeting · Budgeting without spreadsheets