Steward Strategy & Analytics partners with nonprofits, foundations, and universities at early stages of data maturity — moving them from fragmented, spreadsheet-dependent practices to a governed, analytics-ready foundation.
"A dashboard nobody opens is not a deliverable. Every product we build is scoped against who will operate it on the Monday after handoff."
Every product is sequenced by what the client is ready for — not by what we can sell. The assessment is always the front door.
46-question, self-guided evaluation across 7 domains. Organization-level maturity score mapped to a five-band model — Nascent to Leading. SSA-reviewed credential issued. Free to take.
Learn more →Multi-phase, board-ready data strategy roadmap sequencing governance, analytics, and AI readiness. Built on your DMA results — not in the abstract.
Learn more →Council structure, charter, RACI, decision rights, meeting cadence, business glossary, data dictionary, and policy set. The infrastructure that makes analytics trustworthy.
Learn more →KPI design from discovery through definition — what to measure, how it is calculated, who owns it, and where it lives. Templates at Bronze; facilitated co-build at Silver.
Learn more →Donor analytics across retention patterns, campaign intelligence, monthly giving health, segmentation, and revenue trends. SSA-authored findings memo included at Gold.
Learn more →Requirements, training, and dashboard build run concurrently in one gated engagement. Your team builds version one alongside us — and owns it on Monday. Not handed a manual.
Learn more →The Steward DMA is a structured, 46-question self-evaluation across 7 domains. It gives your leadership team an honest, scored picture of where your data practices actually stand — and a clear foundation for every decision that comes after.
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Steward delivers on two service tracks — Governance and Analytics. They are not alternatives. The Governance Track always runs first, because the maturity assessment produces the organizational data map that makes the Analytics Track's KPI design accurate and grounded.
Escalation is client-initiated, not upsold. The Bronze structure is designed to create the conditions under which a client self-identifies the need for the data product, then the analysis, then the implementation support. A client who arrives asking for a dashboard is routed back through Assess and Define first.
If your team exports the same spreadsheet every Monday, manually reconciles donor records between systems, or argues about which number is "right" before every board meeting, you're not alone. Most nonprofits share the same five warning signs.
Read the article →Grant-makers are increasingly asking grantees about data governance practices. A maturity score isn't just an internal diagnostic anymore — it's becoming a credentialing signal. Here's what it means, and how to get ahead of the question.
Read the article →Most organizations buy the CRM, the dashboarding tool, or the AI platform first — and discover the governance problem three months later when the numbers won't reconcile. The sequence exists for a reason, and skipping it is expensive.
Read the article →The free Data Maturity Assessment takes 15–20 minutes and gives you an honest picture of exactly where your organization stands — and which next step is worth your time.