A research on operational funds and organizational performance correlation in nonprofitable organizations

Nonprofit organizations dedicate much energy to increase organizational performances so that it balances with the support they receive from donors in form of funds in order to achieve their own budgets. On much occasions, these achievements have been frustrated by huge funds allocated to mainstream projects yet inadequate or almost no funds dedicated as operational funds to carter for administrative costs, employee salaries, transport, office furniture, rent among others. Therefore, this study explores the deep impact of inadequacy of operational funds on organization performance in nonprofit organizations. It examines the relationship between operational funds and organizational performance in Nonprofitable organizations. A descriptive survey design was used to gather data from the randomly selected nonprofit organizations in Adana. Questionnaires were administered to 25 active nonprofit organizations which were randomly selected from the 2300 to participate in the study. Purposive sampling was used to select 50 respondents where for every organization there were 2 respondents to participate in the study. Data collected was analyized using SPSS and results indicate there is a correlation between operational funds and organizational perfromance in Nonprofit organizations. Finally, the study is concluded by interpreting the results. Keywords: Non-government organization, nonprofit organization, organization management, funds, funding, operational funds.