Price it fairly.
Fund the gap honestly.
A defensible sliding-scale structure, 3 to 6 tiers built from real federal poverty level bands, priced against your program's true cost, with the break-even math done for you. Not a guess dressed up as a policy.
4-tier fee structure
After-School Tutoring Program
Riverside Youth Alliance · by household income vs. federal poverty level
Tier 1
0-150% FPL
Tier 2
151-300% FPL
Tier 3
301-450% FPL
Tier 4
451%+ FPL
Break-even from fees
26%
Coverage with secured funding
79%
$11.0K in fees + $22K secured, against $42K total cost$9.0K still to close.
Inside the product
Priced by what people can afford.
Built from real poverty thresholds and your program's true annualized cost, with the intake form and the staff rubric generated alongside the tiers.
Real screens from the product. Every figure shown belongs to a demonstration workspace, so nothing here is a real organization's information.
Sliding Scale Builder
Price by what people can afford, and still break even.
Built from real poverty thresholds and your true cost.
How it works
From readiness check to board-ready policy.
One nine-step build, not a spreadsheet you have to reconcile with a policy document later.
Check your readiness
8 questions on board buy-in, financial systems, and UBIT understanding, scored into a readiness level before you design a single tier.
Find your true program cost
Every cost line, annualized, divided by expected participants, so tiers are priced against reality, not a guess.
Generate 3-6 tiers
Tiers are built from federal poverty level bands, not arbitrary splits, each with a price and a plain-language description.
Model revenue and close the gap
See your real break-even percentage and total coverage once secured funding is added, plus intake forms, a staff scoring rubric, and board-ready policy language.
Real example
After-School Tutoring Program, priced honestly.
Riverside Youth Alliance priced tutoring at $50-$200 across 4 tiers. Fees alone cover 26% of the $42K program cost, a $22K grant already on hand brings total coverage to 79%.
After-School Tutoring Program
Riverside Youth Alliance · 50 participants per cohort, 2 cohorts a year
Fee revenue
$11.0K
Break-even: 26% of program cost
Secured grant funding
$22K
Coverage with fees: 79%
Total program cost
$42.0K
Staff, materials, and site costs, annualized
Remaining gap
$9.0K
Still to raise or reduce in scope
Questions, answered plainly.
Will this trigger unrelated business income tax (UBIT)?+
Not for program-related fees. As long as the fee-based activity falls within your exempt purpose, it's program income, not UBIT, one of the 8 readiness questions checks that your team understands the distinction before you launch.
How are the tier price points decided?+
Tiers are generated from federal poverty level bands relative to household size, not picked arbitrarily, the same FPL thresholds a benefits program would use, applied to your program's true cost.
What do we get besides the pricing tiers?+
The full build: an intake application with verification-document guidance, a staff scoring rubric with hardship-override language, communication templates for your board and funders, and a policy/SOP document, all downloadable at the end.
Price it fairly. Fund the gap honestly.
Build a real fee structure from your true program cost, with the break-even math and board policy done alongside it.