BRISTOL, UK. July 6th, 2026 – A new report examining how charities, NGOs, grassroots organisations, and community-led groups are navigating a funding environment that many describe as harder to access and harder to sustain is set to be released.
Compiled by LexifyScale, a UK-based research venture focused on researching nonprofit funding access, grant readiness, impact evidence and community-sector sustainability, The State of NGO and Nonprofit Funding examines a growing tension in the nonprofit space. It shows how organisations are being asked to deliver more, prove more, report more and compete harder, often with less money, less capacity and less room to make mistakes.
The report focuses on the UK, with comparative perspectives from Canada, Australia, and selected African contexts.
The core aim is to answer the question of whether nonprofit and community organisations are being asked to prove more impact with fewer resources.
Theophilus Aigbogun, Founder of LexifyScale said: “For many organisations, the funding challenge is not just whether funding opportunities exist, but also what it takes to reach them. There are so many hoops to jump through such as grant applications, funder requirements, impact reporting, evidence demands, shifting priorities, and the pressure to keep delivering services while constantly proving those services deserve to exist.
“Funders, the organisations chasing them, and the people in between rarely describe the funding landscape the same way. This report goes beyond exploring the latest trends in the international non-profit landscape, and maps it through real accounts from nonprofit leaders, charity treasurers, grant writers, intermediaries, and funders themselves, and asks a blunt question: is the gap between what an organisation is worth and what it can put on paper now quietly deciding who gets funded?”
The State of NGO and Nonprofit Funding report is set to be released in full at the end of July. For more information, visit lexifyscale.co.uk.
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