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Keep each organization separate
Each sponsored organization can maintain its own chart of accounts, funds, donors, events, and financial statements without exposing data to other projects.
Fiscal sponsor accounting
Fiscal sponsor accounting for every sponsored organization in one account
Manage sponsored projects with separate books, donor records, funds, reports, and permissions while you see consolidated activity across the whole portfolio.
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Your sponsored portfolio
- Operating funds
- $42,800 In one place
- Project funds
- $12,400 In one place
Community gift · $250 receivedEvery amount has a purpose and a clear record
- Payment record
- Fund allocation
- Financial reports
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What to know
Quick Answer: Fiscal Sponsor Accounting
Fiscal sponsor accounting software should let each sponsored project keep separate records while the sponsor sees reliable portfolio reporting. If your team is using separate bookkeeping files, shared spreadsheets, or manual consolidation, the risk is not just wasted time. It is unclear reporting when projects, funds, and donor restrictions start to overlap.
- Keep each sponsored project's donors, funds, transactions, and reports separate.
- View consolidated revenue, expenses, and balances across the portfolio.
- Reduce separate logins and manual consolidation work.
- Give project leaders access to their own records without exposing others.
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Built for this workflow
Focused capabilities for what your team already does every week.
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Report across the full portfolio
You can view consolidated revenue, expenses, fund balances, and reports for each entity without stitching together separate systems.
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Replace separate logins and spreadsheets
One platform can replace separate QuickBooks files, manual consolidation workbooks, and disconnected donor records for each sponsored project.
A practical starting point
What Fiscal Sponsors Should Look For
Use these practical checks to compare tools and spot gaps in your current process.
- Separate books, funds, donors, reports, and access for each sponsored project.
- Portfolio-level reporting for leadership and board review.
- Clean restricted fund tracking by project and purpose.
- A structure that can grow without adding another disconnected file for every project.
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Connected AlignMint features
Bring the related tools into one place so your team can work from the same records.
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