Independent Impact Due Diligence
for Wealth Advisors
About Eleven 11 Consulting
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I'm Dr. Christian Bell Onyemali, founder of Eleven 11 Consulting.
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My journey from Tulsa, Oklahoma to becoming an impact philanthropy advisor has given me a unique perspective on impact and funding. As a first-generation college student and proud Spelman College graduate, I understand the transformative power of opportunity. This personal experience informed my academic path, culminating in a Ph.D. in Education Policy & Planning from UT-Austin.
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I spent over 15 years as an evaluator for nonprofits and educational institutions — many of them funded by major donors such as Gates Foundation and the National Science Foundation. My job was to answer one question: is this program actually working?
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That meant going beyond annual reports and glossy impact numbers. It meant understanding whether a program was designed to create the outcomes it claimed, whether the evidence was credible, and whether the organization was positioned to sustain results at scale.
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I also founded and am the former Executive Director of a nonprofit serving Black adolescent girls in Austin. Which means I've sat on both sides of the table. I know how organizations present themselves to funders, and I know how to read past the presentation.
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Today I partner with wealth managers, RIAs, and estate attorneys to provide independent impact evaluation of education and youth-serving nonprofits, before their clients make major gifts.
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Our Approach
Evidence Over Optics Impact claims require more than a compelling story. We assess whether the evidence behind them is credible.
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Independent by Design We have no relationship with the organizations we evaluate. That independence is what makes our assessments trustworthy.
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Rigorous but Practical Our methodology comes from over 15 years of formal program evaluation — translated into clear, actionable findings your clients can act on.
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Your Expertise + Ours You handle the financial strategy. We handle the impact evaluation. Different expertise, better outcomes for your clients.
Why Our Assessments
Are Different
Most philanthropic advisors can tell you whether a nonprofit has good financials and a compelling mission. What they can't tell you is whether a nonprofit is measuring real change — or just counting activities and calling it impact.
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That distinction comes from methodology. My evaluation approach is grounded in 15 years of formal program evaluation — the same rigor applied to programs funded by the Gates Foundation and the National Science Foundation. I've served as an internal evaluator, Director of Evaluation and Learning, and external evaluator — assessing organizations from the inside out and the outside in.
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When I tell a client their $150,000 gift is well-positioned, they can take that to the bank. When I flag concerns, they have the evidence to ask harder questions — or walk away.
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Most philanthropic advisors can help with strategy and grantmaking. Impact evaluation is a different discipline entirely — and it's all I do.
"Christian is just...awesome. She can shift between the strong eye on details needed for execution and the ability to connect dots required for strategy and leadership. In just six months, Christian managed to solve the urgent challenges facing our organization, create real buy-in for evaluation and learning from our team, and build a 2-year strategy with strong internal investment. She used the urgent challenges to identify key gaps in our current systems, worked collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, and formulated a strategy that felt authentic, realistic, and aligned to our goals."
Raphael Gang
Former Chief External Relations Officer, 4.0