Nonprofit finance leadership is grant compliance, single audits, and board stewardship — under budget constraints that punish mis-hires twice. We place CFOs and controllers who have run federal-award portfolios cleanly.
Mission organizations hire finance leaders infrequently, which is exactly why doing it well matters. Gratus runs nonprofit finance searches across associations, human services, and grant-funded organizations in the DC metro and nationally — with screening built around Uniform Guidance single audits, funding-mix realities, and Form 990 ownership rather than corporate-finance proxies.
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Every profile here is a vetted, anonymized executive we have interviewed and referenced ourselves. Identities stay confidential — introductions happen through a conversation with our team, on the candidate's terms.
"We don't sell resumes. Every introduction starts with a conversation about your search."