Coming up with categories that make sense
Looking at your organisation as a whole
Projecting needs
Allocating funds
Fundraising scenarios
An organisational budget combines all streams of funding and all expenses, core and project-specific, allowing you to see the gaps and possible savings
The key to compiling an organisational budget is analysing your work across the organisation and coming up with a set of categories that reflects it best.
An organisational budget allows you to project needs and create fundraising scenarios.