Sigma Computing Consulting for Nonprofits
Give staff back the days spent pulling donor, program and finance exports for every board meeting. We build Sigma workbooks on Snowflake that refresh on their own.
The short answer
Where the Hours Go Today
- Board packs take days of pulling exports from the CRM, finance and program systems.
- Donor retention is counted differently by development and finance.
- Each grant report is rebuilt by hand from program spreadsheets.
- Leadership questions wait until someone has time to pull the data.
Sigma Workbooks We Build
- Fundraising and Donor Retention
- Gifts, donors, retention and lifetime giving by campaign, channel and year, with drill paths to each donor record.
- Program Outcomes
- Participants, services delivered and outcomes by program and site, read from the same tables every month.
- Grant Reporting
- Spending and outcomes against each grant budget, so each funder report starts from the same numbers.
- Board Pack
- A monthly or quarterly pack built from the same tables as the daily views and sent on a schedule.
Why Sigma Fits
- Staff already work in spreadsheets
- Sigma is a spreadsheet grid on live warehouse data, so finance and program staff can answer their own questions without learning SQL.
- Budgets and targets in the workbook
- Input tables let staff enter grant budgets, targets and notes that are stored in the warehouse next to actuals.
- Reports that send themselves
- Scheduled exports send the board pack and program reports by email or Teams without anyone rebuilding them.
Data We Connect
- Donor CRM such as Salesforce
- Accounting system
- Program and case management tools
- Payroll and HR system
- Email and event platforms
- Snowflake
Common questions
Is Sigma good for nonprofits?
Sigma fits nonprofits with several systems to bring together, staff who work in spreadsheets, and data in or moving to a cloud warehouse such as Snowflake. Smaller teams with one or two sources may not need a warehouse yet.
Can Sigma connect to Salesforce?
Sigma reads from a warehouse. We load Salesforce and your other systems into Snowflake on a schedule, then build the Sigma workbooks on those tables.
Can Sigma track donor retention?
Yes. We agree with development and finance how a retained donor is counted, then report it by campaign, channel and year from one set of tables.
How long does a Sigma build take?
It depends on how many systems you have and how clean the data is. We scope it on a short call, starting with one report.
Bring the report that eats your week
We'll look at it with you and say what Sigma would save. No pitch deck.