Where nonprofit missions build lasting financial strength.
Common Good is a financial advisory and investment management firm helping nonprofit organizations simplify cash management, invest for the future, and steward their financial resources with confidence.
Nonprofits We're Proud to Support as They Move Their Missions Forward
Everything nonprofits need to build financial strength.
Financial guidance when you need it.
Get answers to important financial questions from advisers who understand the unique challenges of nonprofit organizations. From managing reserves to evaluating investments, we're here to help you make informed decisions.
Pam
How much of our cash should we keep in reserves?
Ryan
Let's review your liquidity needs and build a strategy around your mission.
A simpler way to manage nonprofit finances.
From understanding your organization's financial position to managing investments and monitoring progress, we bring structure and clarity to every step.
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A simpler way to manage nonprofit finances.
From understanding your organization's financial position to managing investments and monitoring progress, we bring structure and clarity to every step.
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Assess
Traction
Scaling
Expansion
Click
A simpler way to manage nonprofit finances.
From understanding your organization's financial position to managing investments and monitoring progress, we bring structure and clarity to every step.
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Assess
Traction
Scaling
Expansion
Click
Better decisions for your board.
Give your leadership team greater confidence with clear investment policies, thoughtful financial planning, and ongoing guidance that connects financial decisions to your organization's mission.
Discuss investment policy
Better decisions for your board.
Give your leadership team greater confidence with clear investment policies, thoughtful financial planning, and ongoing guidance that connects financial decisions to your organization's mission.
Insight
Increased interest around your relationship advice, especially communication and boundaries
Potential collaborators
Founders who commit early build faster together.
See the bigger financial picture.
Understand how your organization's assets are allocated with clear portfolio reporting, investment monitoring, and financial oversight that supports responsible stewardship.
See the bigger financial picture.
Understand how your organization's assets are allocated with clear portfolio reporting, investment monitoring, and financial oversight that supports responsible stewardship.
Guided by people who know nonprofits.
Our advisory board brings together experienced nonprofit leaders and professionals who share their insights, perspectives, and firsthand understanding of the challenges organizations face. Their guidance helps us better understand the sector and continuously improve how we serve it.
Guided by people who know nonprofits.
Our advisory board brings together experienced nonprofit leaders and professionals who share their insights, perspectives, and firsthand understanding of the challenges organizations face. Their guidance helps us better understand the sector and continuously improve how we serve it.
Members stories from the Community
Ryan Kahn
Quinn Kahn
Better Finances. Greater Impact.
Co-founder/CEO
Partnering with nonprofit leaders to build financial resilience, manage organizational resources, and support lasting mission-driven impact.
They bootstrapped an MVP in ~3 months:
Co-founder/CEO, Volter
a fast, keyboard-driven app for high-perf dev teams, prioritizing craft, simplicity, and taste over feature bloat. Validated via intuition + direct customer talks (OpenAI, Vercel early users), skipping traditional PM processes. Raised $52M but stayed profitable, small team-focused (no hypergrowth). Hit $1.25B valuation by focusing on quality.
From Facebook Prototypes to $2B AI Website Empire
Co-founder/CEO, Nexora
Michael and Koen Bok met at Sofa, their Dutch design studio acquired by Facebook in 2011. Frustrated by design-to-code handoffs, they left in 2013 to build Framer—a Mac app for interactive prototypes that shipped in 2014. Designers loved it, but engineers hated exporting code.
Chat Bubble Born in Bug Tracker Turns into AI Customer
Co-founder/CEO, Vortex
Dublin agency Contrast built Exceptional—a bug tracker acquired by Rackspace in 2011. A tiny chat widget they added for dev-customer talks exploded in demand, so Eoghan reunited with Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee, David Barrett to launch Intercom: real-time messaging .
From Near-Death Dropouts to $4B "Everything App" Empire
Co-founder/CEO, PixelForge
After three near-death experiences—including a home invasion—Zeb Evans dropped out of Frustrated by fragmented tools (Asana, Trello, Slack), he teamed with IBM engineer Alex Yurkowski to bootstrap ClickUp in a San Diego house (2017)—an internal tool blending.
Browser IDE to AI App Factory: $40M ARR in 5 Months
Co-founder/CEO, CloudNova
He bootstrapped Thinkster (coding tutorials, acquisition 2019), then piobrowser Node.js IDE used by 10M devs. Facing stagnation in 2024, his 12-person team built bolt.new in 90 days: prompt → full-stack app (React/Vue + backend) running/deploying instantly in browser. No installs, no GitHub, pure AI magic.
Hacking LiveRamp's Data Nightmare Into Open-Source Unicorn
Co-founder/CEO, Quantum
He's1,0006 years at LiveRamp scaling 1,000+ data connectors, moving TBs daily—but saw every company reinventing the same painful ELT wheel. In 2019, post-LiveRamp IPO, he teamed with serial founder Jean Lafleur (COO) after realizing proprietary tools like Fivetran were too rigid/expensive.
They bootstrapped an MVP in ~3 months:
Co-founder/CEO, Volter
a fast, keyboard-driven app for high-perf dev teams, prioritizing craft, simplicity, and taste over feature bloat. Validated via intuition + direct customer talks (OpenAI, Vercel early users), skipping traditional PM processes. Raised $52M but stayed profitable, small team-focused (no hypergrowth). Hit $1.25B valuation by focusing on quality.
From Facebook Prototypes to $2B AI Website Empire
Co-founder/CEO, Nexora
Michael and Koen Bok met at Sofa, their Dutch design studio acquired by Facebook in 2011. Frustrated by design-to-code handoffs, they left in 2013 to build Framer—a Mac app for interactive prototypes that shipped in 2014. Designers loved it, but engineers hated exporting code.
Chat Bubble Born in Bug Tracker Turns into AI Customer
Co-founder/CEO, Vortex
Dublin agency Contrast built Exceptional—a bug tracker acquired by Rackspace in 2011. A tiny chat widget they added for dev-customer talks exploded in demand, so Eoghan reunited with Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee, David Barrett to launch Intercom: real-time messaging .
From Near-Death Dropouts to $4B "Everything App" Empire
Co-founder/CEO, PixelForge
After three near-death experiences—including a home invasion—Zeb Evans dropped out of Frustrated by fragmented tools (Asana, Trello, Slack), he teamed with IBM engineer Alex Yurkowski to bootstrap ClickUp in a San Diego house (2017)—an internal tool blending.
Browser IDE to AI App Factory: $40M ARR in 5 Months
Co-founder/CEO, CloudNova
He bootstrapped Thinkster (coding tutorials, acquisition 2019), then piobrowser Node.js IDE used by 10M devs. Facing stagnation in 2024, his 12-person team built bolt.new in 90 days: prompt → full-stack app (React/Vue + backend) running/deploying instantly in browser. No installs, no GitHub, pure AI magic.
Hacking LiveRamp's Data Nightmare Into Open-Source Unicorn
Co-founder/CEO, Quantum
He's1,0006 years at LiveRamp scaling 1,000+ data connectors, moving TBs daily—but saw every company reinventing the same painful ELT wheel. In 2019, post-LiveRamp IPO, he teamed with serial founder Jean Lafleur (COO) after realizing proprietary tools like Fivetran were too rigid/expensive.
They bootstrapped an MVP in ~3 months:
Co-founder/CEO, Volter
a fast, keyboard-driven app for high-perf dev teams, prioritizing craft, simplicity, and taste over feature bloat. Validated via intuition + direct customer talks (OpenAI, Vercel early users), skipping traditional PM processes. Raised $52M but stayed profitable, small team-focused (no hypergrowth). Hit $1.25B valuation by focusing on quality.
From Facebook Prototypes to $2B AI Website Empire
Co-founder/CEO, Nexora
Michael and Koen Bok met at Sofa, their Dutch design studio acquired by Facebook in 2011. Frustrated by design-to-code handoffs, they left in 2013 to build Framer—a Mac app for interactive prototypes that shipped in 2014. Designers loved it, but engineers hated exporting code.
Chat Bubble Born in Bug Tracker Turns into AI Customer
Co-founder/CEO, Vortex
Dublin agency Contrast built Exceptional—a bug tracker acquired by Rackspace in 2011. A tiny chat widget they added for dev-customer talks exploded in demand, so Eoghan reunited with Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee, David Barrett to launch Intercom: real-time messaging .
From Near-Death Dropouts to $4B "Everything App" Empire
Co-founder/CEO, PixelForge
After three near-death experiences—including a home invasion—Zeb Evans dropped out of Frustrated by fragmented tools (Asana, Trello, Slack), he teamed with IBM engineer Alex Yurkowski to bootstrap ClickUp in a San Diego house (2017)—an internal tool blending.
Browser IDE to AI App Factory: $40M ARR in 5 Months
Co-founder/CEO, CloudNova
He bootstrapped Thinkster (coding tutorials, acquisition 2019), then piobrowser Node.js IDE used by 10M devs. Facing stagnation in 2024, his 12-person team built bolt.new in 90 days: prompt → full-stack app (React/Vue + backend) running/deploying instantly in browser. No installs, no GitHub, pure AI magic.
Hacking LiveRamp's Data Nightmare Into Open-Source Unicorn
Co-founder/CEO, Quantum
He's1,0006 years at LiveRamp scaling 1,000+ data connectors, moving TBs daily—but saw every company reinventing the same painful ELT wheel. In 2019, post-LiveRamp IPO, he teamed with serial founder Jean Lafleur (COO) after realizing proprietary tools like Fivetran were too rigid/expensive.
