HR Health Check Result
Functional
0–10
11–18
19–26
27–34
What it means
The core holds up. Handbook, hiring process, and onboarding are in reasonably good shape for a normal week. Where it tends to give way is under funder or audit scrutiny, which is a different and more specific bar.
What it tends to cost
Nothing breaks day to day. The risk shows up the moment you land a new federal award or a funder’s due diligence goes deeper than it has before, usually with a deadline already attached.
What to do first
Look specifically at grant and funder readiness. It’s the domain most nonprofit HR functions never build, because nothing forces it until a funder asks.
Every band ends here
This short version is a preview. The full HR Health Check runs 40 questions across all six domains and routes every gap to the exact tool that closes it, inside Funder-Ready HR, a downloadable kit built specifically for nonprofits, not adapted from a corporate template with the word “company” swapped out.
If a template can’t close the gap on its own, that’s what a conversation is for. Book a free consultation and we’ll start from wherever your score actually is.
Not legal advice. This check and the kit it previews are built to a federal baseline, with state-variable sections flagged throughout. Neither replaces a review by employment counsel.