Industries — Nonprofits
IT support and cybersecurity for New York nonprofits
Funders now ask about security in the grant application, donors trust you with their data, and the budget still has to answer to the program. We engineer inside that reality.
Mission accountability now includes security
The security question has moved into the funding process: grant applications and funder due-diligence questionnaires increasingly ask how you protect data, whether staff are trained, and who is responsible. Boards ask because their insurers ask them. A thin answer does not just risk an incident — it risks the renewal.
The data itself deserves the care: donor records, client and case information, sometimes health or immigration details of the people you serve. The SHIELD Act’s safeguards apply to any organization holding New York residents’ private information — nonprofit status is not an exemption.
And the budget is real. Our job is engineering to it honestly: nonprofit licensing discounts wherever they exist, a right-sized stack instead of an enterprise one, and phased plans that fix the riskiest gap first. Where a hospital-affiliated or clinical program raises the bar further, our healthcare practice applies. Start with managed IT scoped to what you actually need, or browse the other industries we serve.
Good fit if
10–200 staff with no dedicated IT role
An accidental techie who needs backup
Funder or auditor security questions on your desk
Donor and client data you take seriously
A board member asking about cyber insurance
What we run for nonprofits
The same engineering discipline we bring to regulated firms, scoped and priced for a program budget.
Right-sized managed IT
Managed IT priced and scoped for nonprofit budgets, with nonprofit licensing applied wherever a discount exists.
Microsoft 365 for nonprofits
Microsoft 365 under nonprofit licensing, hardened — MFA everywhere, sensible sharing defaults, and mailbox protection sized to your risk.
Funder questionnaire support
Through strategic IT, we draft security answers for grant applications and funder due diligence from controls that actually run, and keep the evidence ready for the next one.
Email security
Protection against the scams aimed at nonprofits — executive-director impersonation, gift-card requests, and payment redirection on grants and vendor invoices.
Backup and continuity
Tested backups for donor CRM exports, finance records, and shared files, with restores rehearsed — a backup you have never restored is a hope, not a control.
Awareness training
Short, regular training for staff and, where useful, board members — measured by behavior, not completion certificates.
Common questions from nonprofits
Can we actually afford managed IT and security?
Scoped honestly, usually yes. Nonprofit licensing cuts software costs substantially, most organizations need fewer tools than they have been sold, and a phased plan spreads remediation across budget cycles. We put pricing and scope in writing before you commit — and if the honest answer is that you only need a narrower engagement, we will say so.
A funder asked about our cybersecurity program. What are they looking for?
Usually evidence of the basics done seriously: MFA, backups, training, someone accountable, and a plan for incidents. We map their questions to controls, close the material gaps, and write answers you can stand behind — the same discipline law firms apply to client questionnaires.
One staffer handles IT alongside three other jobs. Do they lose that role?
No — they gain an engineering department behind them. Co-managed engagements exist for exactly this: your person keeps the institutional knowledge and the parts they want, and we take the after-hours pages, the security operations, and the projects that never quite start.
Protect the mission’s data on a mission budget.
Thirty minutes with an engineer about your funders’ requirements and your actual environment — no scripts, no pressure.