Managing a nonprofit organization means holding four things in balance at the same time: money arriving on a schedule you can survive, enough people to do the work, a board that actually governs, and the filings that keep your exempt status alive. Nearly every serious problem a small organization hits is one of those four failing quietly for months before anyone gives it a name.
Scale matters here. An analysis published by Candid in May 2025, built from the 2023 IRS Business Master Files, fou