Steward
Plain-English bookkeeping for tiny nonprofits.
Steward is a Mac app for the volunteer treasurer of a small nonprofit. You record money in and money out in plain English; underneath, Steward keeps proper double-entry books with restricted funds, writes donor acknowledgment letters and produces what your 990, your auditor and the next treasurer will need.
In use with its first nonprofit · No release date yet · Pricing announced at launch
Books a volunteer can keep
Steward was built first for Walpurgis Words for Literacy, a small 501(c)(3), and designed from the start for other small nonprofits.
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Money in, money out
Record gifts, expenses and transfers in plain words. Beginner view has no debits, credits or account codes; Accountant view shows them all.
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Real books underneath
Audit-grade double-entry books with restricted and unrestricted funds. Posted entries are never deleted; mistakes are voided or reversed and stay visible.
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Bank and GoFundMe imports
Import bank CSV files with duplicate checks and categorization rules, review every row before it posts, and reconcile month by month.
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Donor letters
Keep track of donors and gifts, including restricted and in-kind gifts, and produce IRS-compliant acknowledgment letters and year-end statements.
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Reports and the 990
Financial statements, fund balances, a gross-receipts check, a 990-N walkthrough, a 990-EZ worksheet and an auditor packet.
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Ready for the next treasurer
A full data export with a plain-English data dictionary, backups and restore, and a handoff document for whoever takes over.
Planned Direct bank feedsBudgets, grants and pledges
It explains itself
Most treasurers of small nonprofits aren’t accountants. Every accounting idea in Steward has a “What’s this?” explanation, and when Steward notices something, it tells you what it saw, why it matters and the one button that fixes it. Anything consequential gets a clear confirmation, never a bare “Are you sure?”.
- Nothing posts to your books without you seeing it first
- One portable file per organization, with automatic backups beside it
- Bank access is read-only, and bank logins are never stored
Where it’s at
Steward is keeping the books of its first nonprofit through a full year of real use before it’s offered to anyone else.
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Books & imports
Setup, the chart of accounts, recording, bank CSV import and reconciliation.
Done - Done:
Donors & reports
Donor letters, reports, the 990-N and 990-EZ, export and handoff.
Done - 3
A year of real use
A full fiscal year of real books, plus direct bank feeds.
Next - 4
Release
Licensing, a trial, documentation and a public build.
Planned
- Status
- In development
- Requires
- macOS 14 or later
- Processor
- Apple silicon
- Currency
- US dollars
- Your data
- One file on your Mac
- Price
- Announced at launch
Steward is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc. Mac and macOS are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.