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Understanding Nonprofit Overhead: Strategies for Transparency and Efficiency in 2025

Blackbaud

But recent events and changing philosophies on overhead costs have shed light on these expenses, which are required to run a functioning nonprofit. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised their uniform guidance in 2024, increasing the de minimus (or standard) rate allowed for indirect costs—overhead for federal grants—from 10 to 15%.

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

As long-time grant writing consultants, we know that the most capable applicants try to produce the most competitive/compelling proposals and are far more successful in obtaining, administering, reporting on, and renewing federal funding than their inept peers.