Fass accountants

Outsourced accounting built for nonprofits

FASS, short for Financial Administrative Support Services, serves only nonprofit organizations. The firm has provided accounting to nonprofits since 2004, working with a team of accountants and consultants who specialize in the sector, mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area but also beyond it. Its stated mission is to relieve nonprofits of the daily worries of accounting and finance so they can concentrate on their missions, and to help them become more financially efficient.

A suite of accounting services

The services it lists include general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and grant billing, along with consulting. Together they let an organization hand off the routine of fiscal management while keeping control of the decisions about its programs. A client does not need a full-time finance staff to keep its books in order, and the firm describes itself as offering comprehensive outsourced accounting rather than a single task.

Structures and reports shaped to the client

The firm says it offers flexible accounting structures and reporting packages tailored to each client's programs and services, because a nonprofit that runs several grant-funded programs needs different reports from one with a single activity. Where an organization has a more unusual need, FASS invites it to talk through a customized solution and a strategy that suits the organization. A personal consultation is available for that purpose.

Part of The Health Trust

The Health Trust, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, owns FASS outright. That link places the firm inside the nonprofit world it serves, and it explains why the firm describes its role as supporting the larger community of nonprofit organizations.

Fass accountants, known as FASS, provides outsourced accounting and financial consulting to nonprofit organisations. It serves only nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, so that they can focus on their missions rather than on day-to-day fiscal management.

What Fass accountants does

• Outsourced accounting: day-to-day accounting and fiscal management for nonprofit clients.
• Financial consulting: advice that helps nonprofits become more financially efficient.
• Flexible reporting: accounting structures and reporting shaped to each organisation.
• Customised service: a personal consultation to find the right solution for each client.

Who it serves

Nonprofit organisations in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. The firm describes its team as nonprofit specialist accountants.

Key facts

• Nonprofit accounting since: 2004
• Parent: The Health Trust, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation