Martus Wins Gold Globee® Award for Helping Nonprofits Budget with Confidence

Martus Solutions has been named a Gold Globee® Award winner for Best Non-Profit, Charity or Social Impact Industry Product in the 21st Annual 2026 Globee® Awards for Technology.

The award recognizes Martus’ budgeting, forecasting, and reporting platform, built to help nonprofits and mission-focused organizations move beyond spreadsheets, improve financial visibility, and make more confident decisions.

Why Nonprofits Need Financial Clarity Now

The recognition comes at a time when nonprofit leaders are navigating a difficult financial landscape. According to the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s State of Nonprofits 2026 report, 66% of nonprofit CEOs say they are concerned about their organization’s financial stability, while 39% reported a budget deficit in fiscal year 2025 – up from 22% in 2022. The report also found that over half of nonprofit CEOs say it has become harder to secure foundation grants since January 2025 while also experiencing higher demand for services.

For nonprofits, foundations, faith-based organizations, schools, and associations, budgeting is never just about numbers. It is about stewardship, priorities, and making sure limited resources are aligned with the work that matters most.

When that work is managed through disconnected spreadsheets, finance teams often lose valuable time to manual updates, version control, and repeated requests for information. Department leaders may have to wait for updated budget views, while executives have less visibility into how today’s decisions may affect tomorrow’s mission impact.

How Martus Helps Nonprofits Budget Faster

With Martus, customers complete budgeting 50% faster than those using spreadsheets, giving finance teams and organizational leaders more time to focus on strategy, collaboration, and mission-critical decisions. The platform also gives teams better insight into where every dollar is going, helping leaders understand how financial decisions connect to programs, people, and long-term impact.

Real-Time Budget Visibility for Nonprofit Teams

That clarity is reflected in the experience of Martus customers like the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, a Bay Area foundation supporting local artists, early childhood literacy, and biomedical research.

Before Martus, department managers often relied on the finance team to provide updated views of their budgets. That created a manual back-and-forth that took time away from higher-value work and made it harder for leaders across the organization to access the information they needed.

With Martus, department managers now have direct, real-time access to their own budget data.

“We’re no longer a gatekeeper,” said Lauren Webster, CFO of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. “This has been a real goal: putting the information in their hands and making their department information transparent to them.”

Webster also described Martus as “just in a different league,” pointing to the onboarding experience, responsive support, and the platform itself.

A Gold Achievement for Financial Clarity and Mission Impact

The Globee® Awards for Technology honor achievements across technology products, services, organizations, teams, and professional roles worldwide. The program recognizes innovation and impact across categories including software, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, mobile applications, and emerging technology.

For Martus, the Gold Globee Award affirms a belief that has guided the company from the beginning: mission-focused organizations deserve financial tools built for the way they actually work.

Nonprofits and other mission-driven teams should not have to settle for budgeting processes that slow them down or reporting tools that make it harder to see the full picture. They need financial clarity without unnecessary complexity, especially when funding is uncertain, demand is rising, and every dollar has a job to do.

Martus is proud to receive this recognition and grateful for the customers whose work continues to inspire what we build next.