Findings from the 2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey

YPTC is proud to have sponsored Nonprofit Finance Fund’s (NFF’s) 2025 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey. Now that the results are available, we want to share key insights—plus, a tool you can use to customize the findings to what’s actionable for your nonprofit. 

Survey Highlights

• Increasing demand for underfunded work — Nonprofits are being asked to do more with less, stretching resources to meet growing community needs. 
• Costs rising faster than funding — Inflation and operational expenses are outpacing revenue growth, creating sustainability challenges. 
• Concerns over government funding cuts and delays — Federal and state funding uncertainty continues to disrupt planning and cash flow. 

View the full survey results. 

Explore the Data

Check out the interactive Survey Analyzer tool YPTC created for NFF. Filter data from over 2,000 respondents by subsector, geography, and budget size to see data that is most relevant to you.

Take Action

Build your nonprofit’s financial resilience and fuel sustained impact with these critical actions:  

Legislative analysis – Through expert-guided Q&A, deepen your understanding of “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) and other recent legislative changes and analyze how they will affect your nonprofit’s financial strategy, donor engagement, and organizational planning. 

Scenario planning – View this on-demand webinar to learn how to build scenario plans that work for you and explore revenue diversification strategies that support financial sustainability. 

Mission-aligned investing – Join us on October 30 at noon ET to learn how you can align your investment policies with your mission, with real-world examples and practical strategies from YPTC, Clark Nuber, and RTD Financial experts. 

At YPTC, we’re committed to helping nonprofits thrive by turning data into actionable insights. We routinely build data visualization tools like the Survey Analyzer for our nonprofit clients, and we can also help you analyze the results, recommend actions, and help you implement them.