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For Non-Profit Organizations

Outsourced HR for Nonprofits That Protects Every Donor Dollar.

Humareso runs HR today for nonprofits whose executive director ends up handling payroll, leave and every employee question on top of the mission.

✓Award-winning HRO team✓You stay the employer✓Start with one service✓Month to month
What We Hear From Executive Directors

The HR Problem Inside Most Nonprofits

A nonprofit carries the same employment law as any other employer, and every mistake lands on a budget that donors and funders can see.

HR sits on the executive director

There is no HR department, so hiring paperwork, terminations, complaints, leave and policy questions all flow to the ED or the operations lead.

Compliance risk hides in the gaps

Exempt and non-exempt classification, harassment training, state leave laws and, for larger employers, FMLA and ACA reporting each carry their own deadline. One missed item becomes a board agenda item.

Grant-funded headcount is fragile

Positions funded by restricted grants need careful offer language, labor costs allocated to the right program, and a plan for the day the funding ends.

Pay questions from the board and funders

Audit committees and IRS Form 990 ask how you set pay for officers and key employees. Most nonprofits have not written that process down.

Volunteers, interns and staff in one workforce

Mixing volunteers, contractors, interns and W-2 staff creates classification and wage-and-hour risk that grows with the organization.

Burnout in a mission-first culture

Mission-driven people often give more than they should. Without steady employee relations support, small conflicts and quiet exits add up.

What Humareso HRO Covers

Your HR Department, Without the HR Headcount.

Humareso works as your outsourced HR function. You keep direct employment and decision authority, and we run the HR work that pulls leadership away from the mission.

Non-profit team member focused on mission work

Payroll allocated by program and grant

Multi-state payroll run on time, with labor costs allocated by program or grant and the reports your finance team and auditors ask for.

Benefits administration

Enrollment, changes and eligibility handled for you, with the broker and carriers you already chose.

Leave management

FMLA, ADA and state leave administered from request to return, so the executive director stops guessing.

Compliance and risk

Handbook, policies, required postings, training records, I-9 audits and classification reviews, documented and ready for an audit or a funder question.

Employee relations

A Humareso HR professional handles complaints, investigations, coaching conversations and separations, including the ones that follow the end of a grant.

Employment verification

Verification of employment requests from lenders and landlords handled through Humareso Verify, so staff get answers without waiting on the ED.

Services Nonprofits Use Most

Start with one service and add more as you grow. One partner, one invoice.

Is This You?

Where Humareso HRO Fits a Nonprofit

Read the test under each group. If one describes you, the scope call is worth twenty minutes.

Community and social-service nonprofits

Program staff, part-time and hourly roles, and an executive director who also runs operations.

Fit testDo you employ your own staff with no full-time HR person?

Grant-funded organizations

Headcount that rises and falls with restricted funding and has to be reported by program.

Fit testDo grant reports ask you to account for labor by program or funder?

Multi-state and remote nonprofits

Advocacy groups, associations and national programs with staff working in several states.

Fit testDo you have employees in more than one state without an HR function to track each state’s rules?

Foundations and small professional staffs

Lean teams with real compliance exposure and a board that expects clean answers.

Fit testDoes your board ask HR questions that no one on staff owns?

Where Humareso HRO does not fit

  • An organization with a full HR team already in place and covering this work.
  • A program whose staff is employed by a fiscal sponsor rather than by your organization.
  • Anyone shopping for a PEO. If you want to hand over the employment relationship itself, we are not the right partner, because with Humareso you stay the employer.
FAQ

Common Questions About HR for Non-Profit Organizations

Straight answers. No sales pitch.

Humareso HRO covers payroll, benefits administration, leave management, compliance and risk, employee relations, and employment verification. You stay the employer, keep your own benefits broker and carriers, and can start with one service on a month-to-month basis.

Yes. Humareso has no minimum size. We scope each engagement to the organization, from a single program office to a multi-state nonprofit, and every account gets a named HR professional.

We help you write offer language that protects the organization and the employee, allocate labor costs by program or grant in payroll, and plan the transition when funding ends.

Yes. We document how you set executive pay, including independent board review, comparability data and records made at the time of the decision, and we keep classification records, leave policies and training logs ready for auditors. Your auditor and tax preparer handle the filing itself.

A PEO co-employs your staff and bundles benefits at its own rates. With Humareso you stay the employer, keep your own benefits broker and carriers, and keep decision authority.

No. Recruiting is not part of HRO. Humareso Recruiting is a separate service with its own team, and you can add it alongside HRO or use either one on its own.

Mission-Driven Work Deserves Mission-Grade HR.

In twenty minutes we will map what HR is costing your leadership team and which services would take it off their plate.

No commitment. Confidential consultation.