Understanding Report Visibility and the Impact Reporting Network

True Impact is introducing an update that allows nonprofits to optionally make impact reports publicly visible through a new shared ecosystem we call the Impact Reporting Network. The Network is designed to help the reporting work nonprofits already do to create more value over time—by allowing that work to reach additional funders and platforms—while preserving the support, review, and safeguards you rely on as a funder.

This page provides context on what the Impact Reporting Network is, what’s changing (and what’s not), how this may affect your program, and answers common questions from donors and CSR teams.

You'll find FAQs here. Please read below for additional details. 

What’s changing

• Nonprofits can now choose to make existing and future impact reports publicly visible
• Public reports may be discoverable across a broader ecosystem of trusted platforms, as part of the Impact Reporting Network
• You may see impact information from organizations beyond your current portfolio

What’s not changing

• Your relationship with True Impact
• The supported, funder-aligned reporting experience your nonprofit partners receive
• Our review standards, quality assurance, and privacy safeguards
• Protection of donor-specific or sensitive information

Key takeaway: Your nonprofits continue to receive a higher level of support than self-service reporting in the Network.

What is the Impact Reporting Network?

The Impact Reporting Network is the ecosystem that allows public impact reports to be shared beyond a single funder relationship.

When a nonprofit chooses to make a report public:

• The same impact report can be discovered by other funders and donors
• The report may appear on trusted platforms such as Charity Navigator and YourCause from Blackbaud solutions
• The nonprofit’s work can reach new audiences without additional reporting effort

Participation is always optional and nonprofit-led.

Why this matters for you

The Impact Reporting Network is designed to extend the value of rigorous impact reporting—without increasing burden on nonprofits or changing your program requirements.

Over the next year, we'll be introducing benefits such as:

• Faster access to credible impact information
  Learn from a broader set of organizations and outcomes across your focus areas
• Greater visibility into effective nonprofits
  Discover organizations doing impactful work that may be relevant to your priorities
• Stronger consistency over time
  Shared reporting approaches reduce fragmentation and improve clarity across the sector
• Healthier nonprofit relationships
  Reporting can serve learning and growth, not just compliance—while better rewarding nonprofits for their time by opening up new opportunities for visibility, discovery, and future funding

Why this matters for your nonprofit partners

This update is designed to better align reporting effort with real value for nonprofits—and to respond directly to funder goals of reducing unnecessary reporting demands on nonprofit partners.

When nonprofits are able to make program-level impact reports public, the time they invest in reporting can lead to meaningful downstream benefits—rather than ending with a single funder relationship. Public reports can help nonprofits be found and discovered by new funders, increase credibility with partners, and unlock future funding opportunities, all without requiring additional reporting work.

In short, this approach helps ensure that the reporting your nonprofit partners complete is not just compliant, but rewarding—while also helping funders reduce duplicative requests and reporting fatigue across their portfolios.

How client-funded reporting remains different

Reports completed as part of your True Impact subscription continue to include:

• Hands-on support for nonprofits throughout the reporting process
• Alignment to your specific priorities, metrics, and program goals
• Expert review and quality assurance
• Data you can confidently use for communications, audits, and decision-making

Public or self-service reports created outside of a True Impact subscription do not receive this same level of review or alignment.