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Strategic Funder Support

You’re on a mission to make the world a better place. We are, too.

That’s why we collaborate with funders to strengthen your partners and transform entire sectors—working at every level where impact happens, from your internal team to sector-wide change.

As a funder, you face complex challenges that require different expertise at different levels. Your staff need support to maximize effectiveness. Your partners need to be strong and resilient, especially in times of crisis. You want partners to coordinate and learn from each other, not work in silos. And you’re looking to create lasting sector-wide transformation.

We partner with funders to address these challenges through a comprehensive framework that delivers impact at four levels:

  • Your internal team
  • Individual partner organizations
  • Your entire portfolio
  • Whole sectors

Our global team of experts understand both sides of the funding relationship. We’ve been program officers and nonprofit leaders who know foundation timelines and grantee cash flow realities.

Through our approach, our partners’ measurable results are:

206%

Improvement in partner financial sustainability

97%

Partner engagement rate in funder-sponsored programs

15,000

Organizations engaged in sector-wide standard development

The complex challenges you face as a funder

We understand the challenges you are facing. You’re trying to create lasting change, but sustained impact requires intentional action at every level—from within your team to across the sector.

Your staff needs support

Program officers need capacity and tools to maximize effectiveness and better support partners across your portfolio.

Partners need resilience

You need your partners to be strong, resilient, and high-performing, especially during times of crisis and uncertainty.

Coordination gaps limit impact

You need your partners to coordinate and learn from each other, not work in silos that duplicate effort and limit collective impact.

Sector transformation requires collective action

Building coordinated movements for systemic change requires different approaches than strengthening individual organizations.

Our multi-level framework

We understand that creating lasting change requires working at every level where impact happens. That’s why we’ve developed a comprehensive framework that meets you wherever you are.

We strengthen individual organizations and bring them together for systemic transformation. Our members and clients span sectors, sizes, and geographies. Organizations get both the individual support they need and peer learning that amplifies impact. We provide measurable, sustained results with real-time progress tracking across portfolios.

How we work with you

Funder Advisory Services

Direct strategic support for your foundation's team and grantmaking approach. Designed for funders who want to strengthen program staff capacity and develop partner support strategies that drive better results.

Solutions Hub Membership

A cost-effective way to strengthen your partners with minimal oversight and on an ongoing basis. Designed for funders who want to provide partners with proven tools, on-demand training, and a global peer network.

Portfolio Alignment Programs

Comprehensive support that creates both individual organizational strength and portfolio-wide coordination. Designed for funders who want better-coordinated partners who learn from each other and amplify collective impact.

Sector Transformation Accelerators

Multi-funder collaboration to transform entire sectors through coordinated strategy and shared standards. Designed for funders ready to lead systemic change alongside peer funders.

Interested in learning more about how we can partner with you?

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Our ecosystem impact across the globe

Our work with leading funders has produced measurable capacity improvements and sustained transformation across sectors and geographies.

40+

Afghan women-led organizations operating and managing risk amidst crisis

375+

African social justice organizations with mission-aligned governance structures and multi-year financial strategies

1,000+

Investigators trained using a global standard for investigating instances of SEAH

75+

Organizations and individuals engaging in collaborative planning and decision-making around the future of the SRHR sector

A few of our strategic partners & funders

As our past program partner, Humentum has supported EngenderHealth’s launch of the TIME Initative (Transforming Institutional Models for Equity). Through this engagement, and through their own synthesis of themes emerging from the global health sector, Humentum is helping us all move towards more equitable development."

Traci L. Baird President and CEO, EngenderHealth

CIPFA has been able to work in true partnership with Humentum, addressing and solving problems together. My colleagues at Humentum bring a breadth of knowledge of the nonprofit sector, and understanding of the issues, and above all drive and passion to make a difference.

Karen Sanderson IFR4NPO Project Lead, CIPFA

We heard from our larger partners — our quintessential recipient, if you will — that they needed help with how to manage finances professionally. Many have also grown, so they need additional skills, structure, and processes. We knew this was something Humentum has expertise with.

Nicky LeRoux Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Explore our initiatives

TIME Transformation Lab
We help changemakers, organizations, and networks navigate disruption and build equity through practical transformation convenings, free resources, and consultancy.
Strengthening financial resilience of 500+ CSOs
We equips civil society organizations across Southern Africa with the financial management, governance, and resilience practices needed to thrive in uncertainty through the Weaving Resilience Initiative.
Global nonprofit accounting standard
Creating the first global nonprofit accounting standard, or INPAS, this initiative engaged more than 15,000 individuals for a global, grassroots movement through the IFR4NPO Project.

Equipping 1,000+ safeguarding investigators
Our goal is that all organizations—local, national, and international—have equal access to effective, professional, and survivor-centered SEAH investigations through the Investigator Qualification Training Scheme (IQTS).
Administration Costs Research Project
We gathered global evidence showing how underfunding administration costs creates a starvation cycle that threatens the financial resilience and effectiveness of national NGOs.
Capacity accompaniment for scale
In partnership with Papyrus International, we’re helping 100+ youth and economic empowerment organizations strengthen their institutions and expand their reach, so they can deliver programming at scale.

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Ready to partner for multi-level impact?

Let’s explore how we can work together to strengthen your partners and transform your sector. Schedule a conversation with us today.

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