# Board Report Time Calculator for Nonprofits | Sarasoris

URL: https://sarasoris.com/board-report-time-calculator

## How much time do your board reports take?

The hours and dollars your team spends assembling board and funder reports by hand each year.

**Short answer.** Board reports cost reports per year × people involved × hours each × their hourly cost. Two staff spending six hours on each of 16 reports a year is 192 hours, about 24 working days, most of it spent copying and checking numbers.

### Calculator

### Cutting the time

Most of the time goes on copying numbers between systems and arguing about which number is right. Agreeing on definitions once and recording things where they happen removes much of it, before any software. The [free board report template](https://sarasoris.com/templates) starts the definitions for you.
When the rest is worth automating: [impact and board reporting](https://sarasoris.com/nonprofit-impact-reporting).

### Related

- [Impact and board reports for nonprofits](https://sarasoris.com/nonprofit-impact-reporting)
- [Free templates](https://sarasoris.com/templates)
- [What are your volunteer hours worth?](https://sarasoris.com/volunteer-hours-value-calculator)

### Questions

#### Should we count the board meeting itself?

No. Count only the time spent assembling and checking the numbers.

#### What if different reports use the same numbers?

Then a single set of agreed definitions saves time on every one of them.

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Last updated October 21, 2026