Advisory services

Fundraising audits & organisational assessments

Beyond training, ASFP works directly with organisations as an independent assessor. We audit your entire fundraising and philanthropy system, score it against a structured maturity framework, and hand your leadership a prioritised roadmap — so you know exactly where you stand and what to fix first.
Strategy & case for support
Is your fundraising strategy a living document — costed, board-approved, and actually followed?
Income & diversification
3–5 years of income data: donor concentration, restricted vs unrestricted mix, cost of fundraising.
Donor pipeline & relationships
Pipeline health, CRM use, stewardship practice, and lapsed-donor re-engagement.
Governance & board engagement
Board giving and door-opening, gift acceptance and ethical fundraising policies.
People & culture of philanthropy
Staffing versus targets, skills gaps, and whether fundraising is everyone's business.
Systems, processes & compliance
Grant management, donor-compliant reporting, data protection, and regulatory standing.
Communications & visibility
Can you demonstrate impact with credible data and stories, consistently, across channels?
Sustainability & forward risk
Reserves, pipeline coverage, succession risk, and progress toward domestic resource mobilisation.

Each domain scored:

Nascent
Developing
Established
Advanced
Phase 1
Scoping & document request
Scoping call, engagement plan, and a structured document and data request.
Phase 2
Document & data review
Strategies, budgets, board minutes, donor reports, and income data analysed.
Phase 3
Stakeholder interviews
Leadership, board, fundraising and programme staff — and your funders, who tell us what staff won’t.
Phase 4
Scoring & triangulation
Every finding verified across at least two evidence sources before it is scored.
Phase 5
Report & debrief
Maturity scorecard, gap analysis, and no more than 10–12 prioritised, sequenced recommendations. A roadmap — not a wish list.
Rapid diagnostic
Fundraising Health Check

1–2 weeks · remote

Custom / engagement
  • Document & income data review
  • Leadership interview
  • Scored snapshot across all 8 domains
  • Short findings memo
Request a health check
Full audit
Full Fundraising & Philanthropy Audit

4–6 weeks · on-site + remote

Custom / engagement
  • Full 45-indicator maturity rubric
  • Board, staff & funder interviews
  • Quantitative diagnostics — concentration, retention, pipeline coverage, cost of fundraising
  • Written report & board debrief
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Audit + capacity building
Assess, then build

Audit + tailored ASFP training

Custom / package
  • Full audit as above
  • Training plan drawn from our 11 modules, matched to your gaps
  • Group enrolment rates applied
  • 6-month follow-up review
Discuss a package
Who commissions an assessment? NGO boards preparing a new strategy, funders assessing grantee capacity, kingdoms and faith institutions professionalising their development offices, and leadership teams who suspect their income looks healthier than it is. Our methodology is grounded in over a decade of institutional grants management and frontline resource mobilisation experience.