For grantees
Your foundation offered you a KindTru assessment. Here's what that actually means.
A foundation you work with is sponsoring KindTru organizational health assessments for a group of its grantees — a learning cohort. If you accept, your organization gets its own complete assessment: your board and staff answer a confidential survey, and you receive a scored report, a board facilitation kit, an action plan with step-by-step guides, and grant-ready language. The assessment is yours. The foundation pays for it; it does not receive it.
The honest question first: is this surveillance?
No — and not because anyone promises to behave. The cohort system is built so that your foundation cannot see your individual results, no matter what it clicks. It sees aggregated patterns across the whole cohort — the kind of information that helps it fund capacity building where the group actually needs 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.
How KindTru protects your organization
Privacy for your organization is built into how this cohort works. The foundation cannot see:
- Which categories you chose to share. The foundation sees participating organizations, not per-category choices.
- Your individual scores. Only aggregated statistics (mean, quartiles, counts) reach the foundation view.
- Any category-level statistic where fewer than 5 organizations opted in — that category is suppressed entirely.
- Your identity if you withdraw. Withdrawals flagged as your own choice are shown to the foundation without attribution or date.
What you control
You choose which assessment categories, if any, to share into the cohort aggregate — category by category, not all-or-nothing. You can change those choices, or leave the cohort entirely, at any time, and your data leaves the aggregation immediately. Declining to share a category never blocks your own assessment: your report, action plan, and 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 your board and staff each spend 20–30 minutes on. Individual survey answers are never shown to anyone — including your own leadership — only combined results, and no group smaller than three people is ever broken out.
Questions this page didn't answer? Ask the foundation contact 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.