SF Foundation
Consulting and production of SF Reports
Standard Form Reports for major donors
For 12 years, – 1993 to 2005 – SF Foundation helped over 300 Christian nonprofit organizations, in the U.S. and around the world, with strategic planning and fundraising.
SF Foundation produced SF Reports (Standard Form reports for major donors), a 32-page printed report for each organization, updated periodically.
This fact-gathering, consulting and reporting work was extremely labor intensive. With increasing requests for help from more organizations, and with with the Internet replacing paper and requiring up-to-the-minute updates, SF Foundation, and its operations partner, Lundborg Foundation, were unable to continue funding the ever-increasing labor costs. (Each organization paid half the cost of producing/updating its report; SF Foundation and Lundborg Foundation paid the other half.) Dick Lundborg was founder and CEO.
Gradually, each organization was taught how to incorporate standard form thinking and reporting into its own website, with its own people, and SF Foundation is now inactive.
CLIENT LIST
World Relief • Wycliffe Associates • Habitat for Humanity • Young Life • Walk thru the Bible Ministries • World Concern • Trinity College and Seminary • Tyndale Theological Seminary • Teen Challenge International • The Navigators • Send International • Pioneers • Youth for Christ • Opportnity International • Map International • Medical Ambassadors International • International School of Theology • International Students International • Latin America Mission • Greater Europe Mission • HCJB World Radio • Fellowship of Christian Athletes • Food for the Hungry • Far East Broadcasting • Feed My Starving Children • Daystar University • Enterprise International • Community Bible Study International • Compassion International • African Enterprise • American Bible Society • ... and hundreds more
SF Reports is still regarded as the format of excellence for major donor reporting
Click below to see a couple of examples of SF Reports. They may give you a framework and some good ideas for YOUR major donor reporting:
WHO WE ARE
1 General description
2 Offices and facili es
3 Mission statement
4 Uniqueness
5 Affiliations
6 Memberships
7 Cooperating groups
8 Organization structure
9 Board of directors
10 CEO
11 Senior staff
12 Workers
13 Wages and benefits
14 Recruitment and training
15 Consultants and advisors
16 References
17 Directory
18 Survey findings
19 Observations
20 Internet
WHAT WE DO
21 Guiding principles
22 Operating methods
23 Changes in emphasis
24 Similar organizations
25 Geographic scope
26 Demographics
27 Recent accomplishments
28 Outcome measurements
29 Summary statistics
HOW WE GOT HERE
30 Founders
31 Timeline
32 Success stories
33 Operating Statement (P&L)
34 Balance Sheet
35 Audit
36 Operating rates
37 Funding methods
38 Donors
WHERE WE'RE GOING
39 SWOT analysis
40 Vision for future
41 Top 10 priorities
42 Major plans and projects
43 Plans still needed
44 Funding still needed
45 Calendar
45 SECTIONS
These were the standard form
sections of every SF Report: