STARTING PATTERN
Nonprofit board and programs
A mission-driven starting point for laying out board oversight, program delivery, fundraising, and administration.
8 open roles · led by Board chair
Start from Nonprofit board and programsMISSION NEEDS STRUCTURE TOO
Org charts for nonprofits
A nonprofit answers to a board, delivers through programs, and runs on fundraising and administration. The chart should make all four lines visible — especially to new staff, volunteers, and funders.
THE SHAPE THAT RECURS
Governance on top, delivery underneath.
Most nonprofit charts share a spine: the board chair at the top, an executive director accountable to the board, and program, development, and administrative functions reporting to the executive director. Volunteers and coordinators attach to the programs they serve.
Drawing that spine honestly matters for grant applications and onboarding alike — a funder reading your chart should see who governs, who delivers, and who keeps the lights on.
MAKE IT YOURS
Rename, add, and reshape
Every role in the pattern is a generic open role. Rename them to your real titles, add the committees and coordinators your organization actually has, and remove what does not apply — the draft stays on this device while you work.
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What this page does not claim.
The pattern is scaffolding, not governance advice: it encodes a common shape, and your bylaws — not a diagram tool — define how your organization must be governed. Dual reporting to both a committee and staff leadership is recorded in role titles today, because the editor draws one accountable manager per role.
PEOPLE DATA, HANDLED CAREFULLY
Volunteer and staff lists deserve caution.
A guest draft stays in this browser until you deliberately save it to a workspace. If you convert a staff spreadsheet, a recognized employee table is mapped deterministically in request memory, and the current path stores no uploaded files.
Sharing stays an explicit decision: a chart becomes visible to others only through a signed-in save or a deliberately created share link, never as a side effect of drafting.
START WITH A DRAFT YOU CONTROL