Are You Ready for the Changing NFP Climate?

On paper, the sector has never been bigger. The 11th ACNC Australian Charities Report put total revenue at $222 billion, up 10.7% year on year. Look underneath the headline and a different picture emerges. 73% of mid-sized NFP leaders say their financial performance was hurt in the past 12 months, up from 68% the year before. 61% report their planned cash reserves are being drawn down faster than this year’s budget assumed.

The reason the middle feels it most is concentration. Just 0.5% of charities at the top capture 56% of all revenue. The mid-sized band, organisations turning over $1M to $20M, is the operational backbone of community service delivery. It is also the band most exposed to indexation lag, single-funder dependency, and the structural shifts now in motion.

And the shifts are not hypothetical. In nine months the sector absorbed three of them: the NDIS social participation reset (an average 50% cut to those budgets from 1 October 2026), aged care’s move to Support at Home (home care operating margin fell from $3.77 to $1.44 per client per day), and the Giving Funds reform announced in February. Any one is a planning challenge. Together, hitting the same balance sheets at once, they change what financial resilience has to look like.

What’s inside the report

A board-ready read, written for the CEOs, CFOs and boards of mid-sized For Purpose organisations, and the accountants and advisors who serve them.

The organisations that move now will be the ones setting the terms for what comes next. If you want help turning these benchmarks into your own numbers, that is exactly what our team does.