Case Study: Canine Companions achieves $500K in annual expense savings with Sage Intacct

Sage Intacct allows Canine Companions to sniff out new opportunities

Canine Companions is a California nonprofit that trains and places service dogs for people with disabilities. As the organization expanded, its legacy on‑premises accounting system and heavy reliance on Excel (about 70% manual work) limited cross‑location visibility, slowed gift processing and reporting, and constrained growth and grant opportunities.

After implementing Sage Intacct with Armanino and integrating it with their Salesforce donor system, Canine Companions automated receivables, restricted‑fund tracking and approval workflows. The finance team scaled through 2.4x asset growth while cutting gift processing time by 50%, speeding reporting, shortening audits by 25% (and cutting audit costs 20–25%), improving fundraising ROI 10%, saving $500,000 annually and roughly $100,000 in personnel costs, and enabling pursuit of more complex grants.

Canine Companions

Jack Peirce

Chief Financial Officer