April 29, 2025

GRF Announces Partnership with Vena SoftwareLeading CPA firm partners with Vena to offer nonprofits powerful financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities.

GRF CPAs & Advisors (GRF), a top 200 public accounting firm, is pleased to announce its official partnership with Vena, the #1 AI-powered FP&A platform purpose-built to fully leverage the Microsoft technology ecosystem. This collaboration strengthens GRF’s ability to support nonprofits and trade and professional associations through innovative financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities. The move further enhances the capabilities GRF offers to nonprofit finance leaders.

Through this partnership, GRF joins Vena’s ecosystem as an implementation partner, leveraging its deep industry expertise to help clients integrate and optimize Vena’s Complete FP&A platform. The partnership also aligns with both companies’ strategic focus on Microsoft technologies, creating new opportunities to deliver enhanced financial planning and operational efficiencies for nonprofit organizations.

“As nonprofits face an increasingly complex financial environment, the need for smart, flexible planning solutions is more critical than ever. Through our partnership with Vena, we’re delivering a powerful, best-in-class solution that helps our clients streamline operations, enhance forecasting accuracy, and advance their missions more effectively,” said Heather Broberg, Director and Principal, Accounting Technology Services at GRF. “We’re proud to welcome Vena as a strategic partner and look forward to collaborating to solve key financial and operational challenges with the right digital tools.”

Vena’s Complete FP&A platform enables finance teams to unify financial and operational planning within the familiar Excel environment while leveraging the full potential of Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies. GRF’s expertise in nonprofit consulting and Microsoft’s digital ecosystem will play a key role in ensuring clients maximize the value of their Vena deployments. “We are thrilled about our partnership with GRF, whose deep expertise in the nonprofit sector enhances our ability to serve clients in this important industry. Their exceptional service and dedication to delivering value align perfectly with Vena’s mission to empower organizations through innovative solutions. We are excited to deepen our collaboration in 2025 and beyond,” added Gurp Gahunia, VP of Partner Channels at Vena.

As part of this collaboration, GRF has already began training professionals on Vena’s platform, equipping its team with the knowledge and skills to provide best-in-class implementation and support. This partnership marks a new milestone in GRF’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovative solutions that drive efficiency and allow nonprofit organizations to scale and deliver on their important missions.

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To learn more about how GRF and Vena are working together to transform financial planning for nonprofits and trade and professional associations, contact Heather Broberg online.

About GRF CPAs & Advisors

Headquartered in the Washington, DC metropolitan region, GRF CPAs & Advisors (GRF) is a full-service professional services firm providing clients with audit and assurance, accounting, tax, and advisory solutions. For more than 40 years, GRF has leveraged a deep bench of industry expertise to assist nonprofit organizations, trade and professional associations, government contractors, privately held businesses, trusts, and individuals with their most challenging financial and operational issues.

GRF is recognized among Inside Public Accounting’s Top 200 Firms, Accounting Today’s Best Accounting Firms to Work For and the Washington Business Journal’s Top 20 Accounting Firms. Accounting Today has also honored the firm among their Firms to Watch, Top Firms in the Capital Region, and Best Firms for Young Accountants.
For more about GRF CPAs & Advisors, visit our website at www.grfcpa.com.

About Vena

Vena is the #1 agentic AI-powered FP&A platform purpose-built to harness the full power of the Microsoft technology ecosystem for finance teams everywhere. Vena amplifies Microsoft’s world-leading productivity tools, cloud technology and AI innovation to make FP&A, operational planning and adjacent strategic processes more flexible, efficient and intelligent. Thousands of the world’s leading companies rely on Vena to power their planning. For more information, visit venasolutions.com.