NGOs & Non-profits

Donor funds, never mixed by accident.

Restricted grant funds, per-diem field payroll, and a different report format for every donor — Centy keeps it all traceable from one ledger.

Make donor trust your competitive edge.

NGOs and non-profits manage funds that come with conditions attached — a grant restricted to a specific project, an operating budget that isn't — and every donor wants spend reported back in their own format. Field teams are often paid per-diems and stipends alongside core staff on standard payroll, and when an audit comes, the trail has to hold up transaction by transaction.

Donors expect spend reported in their own format

Every funder wants their grant reported back differently — the underlying transactions should roll up automatically, not get reformatted by hand each time.

Organizations need restricted funds kept provably separate

A donor-funded project's spend should never be able to cross into general operating funds by accident, with a full audit trail behind it.

Built for how ngos & non-profits actually runs.

Centy tracks restricted and unrestricted funds separately so a donor-funded project's spend never bleeds into general operating funds by accident, and keeps a full audit trail on every transaction — ready for a donor or statutory audit without a scramble to reconstruct it.

Restricted funds kept separate

Donor-funded project spend can never accidentally cross into general operating funds.

Multi-donor reporting

The same transactions roll up differently for each funder's format, without manual reformatting.

Full audit trail

Every transaction carries a complete history, ready for a donor or statutory audit.

How it works

One operational record from the first step to close — not three tools reconciled at month-end.

  1. Grant is set up

    A budget is built per grant or project, structured in the donor's own terms.

  2. Funds are kept apart

    Spend posts against the restricted fund it belongs to, never the general operating account.

  3. Field teams are paid

    Per-diems and stipends run alongside standard payroll for core staff, in the same run.

  4. Donor reports go out

    The same transactions roll up into each funder's required reporting format automatically.

Where Centy fits in ngos & non-profits.

01
Multi-donor NGOs

Separate restricted funds reported back in each donor's own required format.

02
Field & humanitarian programs

Per-diem and stipend payroll for field teams, run alongside core staff payroll.

03
Grant-funded research bodies

Budgets tracked per grant, with actual spend reported against the original line.

04
Community-based organizations

A full audit trail ready for donor or statutory review at any point.

Runs on Centy Books.

The core accounting engine behind Centy — sales invoicing, purchases, journalling, VAT, and reporting, with eTIMS built into every invoice for KRA compliance.

Centy Books

Accounting that's built into the ERP, not bolted onto it

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See how Centy fits your ngos & non-profits operations and entities.