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Donate Now!Find a Fiscal Sponsor Here!
heather | 14 Mar 2007 - 12:28
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Last night I facilitated, "Starting a Nonprofit" group at the Craigslist Foundation nonprofit night. As we were discussing fiscal sponsorship options for start-up organizations, I said, "there are very few organizations who provide fiscal sponsorship."
Please prove me wrong!
Supposedly the Alliance for Nonprofit Management has a list of fiscal sponsor organizations, however I haven't been able to get a hold of it. Also, the Tides Center has created the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors, but doesn't appear to be sharing who is in the network, other than the founding members. Furthermore, I encouraged the Foundation Center to expand its list of fiscal sponsors from just the arts to all areas within the nonprofit sector. (They provided me a paper list of fiscal sponsor organizations for the Arts when I attended their fiscal sponsorship workshop.) Consequently, the Study Center in San Francisco is creating a list of fiscal sponsor organizations, but it isn't available yet.
Why isn't this information or list of fiscal sponsor organizations ready and available for the public to see? There are amazing ideas and organizations out there that just need a little fiscal sponsorship or incubation to get them going!
I'm not waiting any longer for these mysterious lists to appear, I worked with Jonanthan Peizer to create our own list of fiscal sponsor organizations for everyone to see!
I've been searching and whenever I find fiscal sponsor organization, I tag it in Del.icio.us (npofiscalsponsor). The list is very basic and non-descriptive so Jonanthan Peizer entered this information into Capaciteria along with a list of of fiscal sponsors he had been gathering. He then separated the list by focus area—Arts, Social Justice, Youth, etc.
If there's some master list of fiscal sponsor organizations and I haven't found it—please let me know! If you are an organization that provides fiscal sponsorship to nonprofits and want to be on this list, please contact me and I'll add you, or if you are familiar with Del.icio.us you can tag it yourself and/or add it to Capaciteria.
This is a collaborative model anyone can view the list, and anyone can add entries to the list. Also, feel free to add comments about how you would like the list of Fiscal Sponsor organizations to look like.
Hopefully start-ups can now get connected to a fiscal sponsor sooner rather than never!
When I'm not working for Aspiration, I provide consulting to start-up nonprofits, so this issue is very near and dear to my heart!
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Thank you! Very helpful info!
Hi Heather, I ran into the same problem trying to find a Fiscal Sponsor. I opened up a Non Profit Organization inorder to build an Orphanage in an area in Africa that statistically has 10,000 orphans living in the streets, under the age of 13 yrs; and taking care of their younger sibblings. I was very saddened by this story and decided to build an Orphanage in that are. Until I realized that it is not that easy to get funding. First and foremost, Finding a Fiscal Sponsor was and stil is a total Nightmare. Their sites either asked you for a registration fee just to view the list or take a glimpse which i thought was ridiculous or you just get the runaround. I came through your blog on yahoo and that was nice of you to compose that list. It was a glimpse of hope. A light at the end of the tunnel. I still have not found a fiscal sponsor but your blog was the first time that I actually laid my eyes on a Fiscal sponsor and got the chance to go through their website and see what their requirements are, what they are all about etc etc etc. Its a step foward from where I was 2 weeks ago. I was pretty much STUCK! Thank You Heather. We need more Kind people like you in this world. God Bless You. Josephine.