You Might Be Ready for An Endowment if …

10. The ability to raise matching support from other donors.

The Ford Foundation recommends an organization commission a consultant to conduct a management review, which will analyze the organization’s effectiveness at pursuing its mission, evaluate the level of fundraising expertise within the organization, and look at the organization’s fundraising oversight and governance structure. It also recommends a feasibility study be conducted to determine whether the community can support an endowment and whether enough income will be generated through the endowment effort to make it worth the time and resources the organization will have to put into building and managing it.