Budget Building for Non-Profits and Associations
DolceDrago 347 — a skill for the year where the money has names on it
Variant of Nº053 — The Budget Builder
What it is
Builds the budget a charity, association or grant-funded project can defend: one column per fund, because the money is not fungible. Restricted pots with their eligible-cost lists and end dates, match evidenced rather than assumed, staff apportioned on a declared key, overhead recovered to the cap the funder allows, and the unrestricted column that is the only one free to move. For charities, associations, social enterprises and the treasurers who sign.
What you receive
a fund-accounted budget — one column per restricted pot with its eligible costs, match and reporting date, an unrestricted column carrying the core, the cash row against claims paid in arrears, and the underspend and reserves flags dated before the funder's deadline
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how to budget a charity with restricted funds”
- “how much overhead can i put in a grant budget”
- “we show a surplus but there is no money in the bank”
- “how do i show match funding in a project budget”
- “our biggest grant ends next year what do we cut”
Record
lineage: variant · parent 053
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
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