In 2024, 65% of nonprofits reported that inflation, rising costs, and economic uncertainty have made it harder to plan and execute their fundraising strategies.
(Source: Nonprofit Finance Fund, 2024 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey)
Flash forward to 2025. Donor patterns are shifting, grants are becoming more competitive, and major donors are taking a more cautious approach to long-term giving. It’s never been harder to forecast revenue and confidently plan for growth.
While uncertainty may be the new normal, resilience is still within reach. Nonprofits who actively future-proof their organizations now will be positioned not just to survive, but to expand their impact in 2025 and beyond.
Vee.com works with hundreds of nonprofits who are building that kind of resilience every day. Here are four main strategies you can apply — along with a few ways AI-powered tools like Grant and Maggie can quietly support the work behind the scenes:
Diversify Your Funding Pipeline Intentionally
The more revenue streams your nonprofit has, the more flexible you are when any one source becomes unpredictable. Successful organizations actively develop multiple channels: individual giving, corporate support, earned revenue, investments – and yes, grants.
The challenge? Diversification takes time. Identifying the right grants alone can require hours of research every week.
How Vee.com helps:
Our tool Grant scans thousands of grant opportunities daily: analyzing funder patterns, mission alignment, geographic eligibility, and past awards, so your team spends less time searching and more time submitting strong proposals. This allows smaller development teams to actively pursue new funding sources without increasing headcount.
Strengthen Financial Controls and Transparency
Good governance will be able to protect your mission in uncertain times. This means tightening approval processes, safeguarding sensitive financial data, and ensuring that leadership teams have real-time visibility into financial performance. And although AI can’t replace financial governance, it can support leadership by reducing the time your team spends on manual grant preparation, giving you more capacity to focus on high-level financial oversight.
Build Financial Reserves Through Consistent Pipeline Activity
Reserves give nonprofits breathing room when revenue dips. But to grow reserves, you need a steady, reliable stream of funding opportunities moving through your pipeline.
The truth is that many nonprofits miss grant deadlines or limit how many proposals they submit simply because research and writing take too much staff time.
How Vee.com helps:
Grant reduces both the research and first-draft writing workload, allowing your team to apply for more funding without sacrificing quality. More submissions mean more opportunities to build your reserves over time.
Monitor, Forecast, and Adjust
In fast-changing times, your budgeting process needs to be dynamic. The best-run nonprofits don’t just create a budget once a year — they actively track performance, analyze trends, and adjust projections as conditions evolve.
How Vee.com helps:
With tools like Maggie, our AI-powered content assistant, you can ensure your outreach remains consistent and visible across digital channels — even when internal capacity fluctuates. Staying visible with donors, funders, and supporters gives your team more actionable data to forecast engagement and revenue trends.
The Bottom Line:
Strong finances = strong mission.
While none of us can fully control 2025’s economy, you can build internal systems that give your nonprofit more capacity, flexibility, and resilience. At Vee, we’re focused on helping nonprofit teams free up time, simplify grant processes, and amplify their visibility so your team can focus on the work that matters most.
Source: Nonprofit Leaders’ Top Concerns Entering 2025: An Analysis from the Nonprofit Trends and Impacts Study by the Urban Institute
