See exactly what's behind
every score.
The Diagnostic Engine, Command Center, and every other scoring module run on named, documented methodology. Nothing about your score is a black box.
What you'll find
The full scoring methodology behind every diagnostic, domain by domain
The real formulas behind Command Center's resilience and concentration numbers
How Sliding Scale Builder generates fee tiers and calculates break-even
How Income Stream Builder scores fit, readiness, and confidence
The methodology
Six real frameworks, documented.
Framework
Readiness Score
Measures: The Comprehensive Health Diagnostic scores 52 questions across 13 real domains: Leadership and Governance, Financial Health, Revenue Resilience, Operations and Technology, People and Organizational Capacity, and more, into one weighted 0-100 score, placed on a five-tier band from Significant Foundational Risk to Strong and Well-Positioned.
Why it matters: A single number that reflects the whole organization, not just the finances, so a strong balance sheet can't hide a governance gap, and vice versa.
Used in: Diagnostic Engine, referenced across Command Center and every other tool's AI advisor.
Framework
Concentration & Resilience Score
Measures: The share of revenue held by your top source, and a 0-100 resilience score built from diversification, unrestricted share, and how much revenue you've earned yourself versus received as grants or gifts.
Why it matters: A resilience score below 55 ("high concentration") or below 35 ("critical concentration") flags a budget that's structurally exposed to a single funder's decision, not a vague warning, a specific, documented threshold.
Used in: Command Center, Revenue Resilience domain of the Diagnostic Engine.
Framework
Sliding Scale Tier Generation
Measures: Fee tiers (3 to 6 of them) generated from real federal poverty level bands relative to household size, each priced as a percentage of full price. Break-even and coverage percentages are calculated from expected enrollment, cohort frequency, and your program's true annualized cost.
Why it matters: Tiers built from real FPL thresholds, not arbitrary splits, the same standard a benefits program would use, applied to your program's actual cost structure.
Used in: Sliding Scale Builder.
Framework
Income Stream Fit & Readiness Scoring
Measures: Every stream in the 42-stream catalog is scored 0-100 for fit (mission and revenue alignment) and 0-100 for readiness (your capacity to execute now), placed into one of 6 status categories from Pursue Now to Not Legally or Structurally Appropriate, each with a confidence level reflecting data quality.
Why it matters: Mission alignment is weighed before revenue potential, and the model is deliberately capacity-aware, a small staff with no earned-income experience won't get an enterprise-level recommendation.
Used in: Income Stream Builder.
Framework
Hybrid Model Readiness Assessment
Measures: 50 questions across 10 categories, each scored A through E (5 to 1 points), for a maximum of 250 points, the original instrument FundWisr's methodology is built on.
Why it matters: The deepest single readiness instrument in the platform, purpose-built for organizations weighing a hybrid nonprofit or social enterprise structure.
Used in: Diagnostic Engine.
Framework
Grant Fit Scoring
Measures: Every AI-searched grant opportunity is scored for readiness against your actual Keystone profile, eligibility, geography, focus area, financial documentation, with the specific missing items holding the score back.
Why it matters: A thin profile is flagged as unscoreable rather than given a guessed number, so a high score always means something real.
Used in: Grant Intelligence.
Questions, answered plainly.
Is this proprietary to FundWisr, or based on published research?+
Both. The core methodology is built from Tracy Vallen's 28 years as a nonprofit, social-impact, and funding strategist, refined and formalized into the named frameworks documented here.
Can I use these frameworks outside the platform?+
The frameworks are documented here for transparency, so you understand exactly what's behind your score. Running your own numbers through them at scale requires a FundWisr account.
Do the frameworks change over time?+
Yes, as the methodology is refined. Updates that affect how scores are calculated are logged in the Changelog.
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