For grantees
Your funder offered you a KindTru assessment and the planning that follows it. Here's what that actually means.
A funder you work with is paying for KindTru for a group of the organizations it supports, called a learning cohort. If you accept, your organization gets the whole of it. First, your board and staff answer a confidential survey, and you receive a scored report with one proposed priority and a 90-day plan, the Facilitation Kit for a one-hour board meeting, an Action Plan that records what your board decides, and grant-ready language. Then the Strategic Planning Kit helps you decide where you are going, with a half-day retreat built from your own results, and check-ins and Board Development keep it going through the year. The assessment is yours. The funder pays for it; it does not receive it.
The honest question first: is this surveillance?
No, and the answer does not rest on anyone promising to behave. The cohort system is built so that your funder cannot see your individual results, no matter what it clicks. It sees combined patterns across the whole cohort (the kind of information that helps it support capacity building where the group actually needs it), and a category appears there only when at least 5 organizations share it. What it sees about the cohort, you can see too: grantees get the same cohort view under Cohort Insights in their own KindTru dashboard. Our confidentiality page explains how this works, including where our protection stops.
How KindTru protects your organization
Privacy for your organization is built into how this cohort works. The funder cannot see:
- Which areas you chose to share.
- Your individual scores. Only group results (averages, ranges, and how many organizations shared each area) reach the funder.
- Any area fewer than 5 organizations chose to share. It stays hidden entirely.
- Any area in a group (by budget, mission, region, or age) that fewer than 10 organizations in that group chose to share.
- The date or your reason if you leave.
What your funder does see, by name: your organization, the date it joined, the budget and mission details you confirmed, and whether your assessment is under way or finished. If you leave, your organization stays on your funder's list, marked Withdrawn, without the date or your reason.
What you control
You choose which assessment categories, if any, to share into the cohort's combined view, category by category. Nothing is shared until you choose. You can change those choices, or leave the cohort entirely, at any time, and your answers leave the combined results immediately. Neither sharing nor leaving changes the access your funder paid for: your report, Action Plan and planning tools are complete either way.
What participation asks of you
The same thing any KindTru assessment asks: a short intake by your director, and a confidential survey. Board members and senior staff spend about 40 to 55 minutes on it, and program staff about 7. Those survey times are a calculation from the number of questions each role is asked, at twenty seconds a question, rather than observed completion times. Individual survey answers are never shown to anyone, including your own leadership. Only combined results are, and no group is ever broken out on its own.
Questions this page didn't answer? Ask the person at your funder who sent it to you, or write to us directly at hello@kindtru.org. We'd rather answer a hard question up front than have your board wonder quietly.