Nonprofit Success Pack Consultant Practice Exam 2025: Latest Questions

A nonprofit is new to NPSP and wants to store a household with two adults and two children at the same address, while tracking donations by the adults. Which approach aligns with the NPSP Account and Contact Model best practices?

A development associate enters a donation but forgets to allocate it to the correct campaign. The nonprofit wants to report on fundraising performance by appeal. Where should the associate relate the gift to support campaign reporting in NPSP?

A nonprofit wants a standardized set of follow-up tasks (thank-you call, receipt email, stewardship check-in) to be created automatically when a major gift is closed won. Which NPSP feature is designed for this requirement?

A data manager needs to prevent staff from creating duplicate Contacts when entering new donors. Which approach is a recommended first step in NPSP-enabled orgs?

A nonprofit receives a single $10,000 grant that must be split across three internal funds for reporting (e.g., General, Programs, Capital). In NPSP, what is the best way to represent this while keeping it as one donation?

A nonprofit tracks volunteer participation in classes and wants to record each volunteer’s attendance over time and report on outcomes by program. Which NPSP approach best fits this need?

A nonprofit wants a dashboard showing Year-to-Date fundraising by fund, plus a count of unique donors. Donation records are stored as Opportunities with Allocations. What is the most reliable reporting approach?

A nonprofit wants to ensure that when a new Household is created, the address stays in sync between the Household Account and its related Contacts. Which NPSP configuration supports this behavior?

A nonprofit receives recurring credit card gifts monthly. They want to track the donor’s commitment, automatically generate expected installments, and record each successful payment. Which NPSP design best meets these requirements with the least customization?

After importing donations, users notice that several gifts are credited to the wrong Household because the donor Contact was accidentally related to two Households over time. The nonprofit needs to correct household relationships without losing relationship history and ensure gifts roll up correctly going forward. What is the best action?

A nonprofit wants to track a household where two adults are married and one adult’s parent also lives in the home. They want donations from any household member to roll up to the same household record. Which NPSP account model configuration best supports this requirement?

A user enters a donation as an Opportunity but forgets to create the Payment records. Later, finance needs a schedule of expected cash receipts by month. Which NPSP feature should the consultant recommend to automatically represent expected payments for a donation?

A program manager wants a repeatable checklist of tasks for onboarding new volunteers, with due dates relative to the volunteer start date. What should be used in NPSP to meet this requirement?

A nonprofit imports Contacts from multiple sources and ends up with many duplicates. They want a way to identify likely duplicates using configurable matching rules and merge them while preserving donation history. Which approach best fits NPSP best practices?

A donor makes a single gift that must be recognized as 50% to the General Fund and 50% to the Scholarship Fund, while still being one donation for receipting. Which NPSP feature supports this requirement?

A nonprofit tracks grants as Opportunities and wants to manage required reports and deadlines (e.g., interim report, final report) as part of each grant’s lifecycle. They want these tasks to be created automatically when a grant is awarded. What is the most appropriate NPSP solution?

Development leadership wants a dashboard showing Year-to-Date donation totals and donor counts. They notice that new fiscal years require manual report edits to update date filters. Which reporting approach reduces ongoing maintenance?

Users report that when they create a new Contact, a Household Account is not being created and the Contact is not added to a household. Which configuration is the most likely cause in NPSP?

A nonprofit uses recurring donations. They want each installment to be recognized as revenue only when the payment is actually received, but they also want a forecast of expected cash. Which design best aligns with NPSP patterns?

A nonprofit must migrate historical donations and wants accurate household giving rollups and soft credit totals after the import. They plan to import Contacts, Accounts, and Opportunities using a data loader. What sequencing and key steps are most critical to avoid rollup issues?

A nonprofit receives a single $10,000 check from a family and wants to acknowledge each family member as a donor without splitting the money into multiple Opportunities. Which NPSP approach best meets this requirement?

Program staff want to track that a participant has completed a required set of program steps (e.g., intake, training, follow-up) and see progress over time. Which NPSP feature is the best fit?

A nonprofit uses Household Accounts and wants to ensure that when a new individual is created, the system automatically creates and names the Household Account consistently. Which configuration should the consultant review first?

A development team built a dashboard showing year-to-date fundraising, but it is missing many donations. The missing gifts were entered as Payments against Opportunities and marked as "Paid," while the Opportunities remain Open. What is the most likely cause and best fix?

A nonprofit wants to import 50,000 donation records from a legacy system. They need each donation associated to the correct donor Contact and to preserve the original gift date, amount, and acknowledgement status. Which approach is the best practice in NPSP?