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How to Prepare Your Grantmaking for Economic Uncertainty (and Why Now is Different)

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With tens of thousands of layoffs coming from federal government roles, demand may come from places and people who havent needed this level of support before. Many nonprofits are feeling the strain from a pause in federal grant funding and are working to shift their programs to align with the changes in government priorities.

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Top Accounting Tips for Government Grants

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Easily allocate grant expenses to correct subfunds, generate financial reports in funder-required formats, and establish compliance dashboards to provide real-time visibility into spending and deadlines. Ready to streamline your grant management process? What are the key federal grant compliance accounting requirements?

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12 Top Financial Metrics Nonprofits Need to Know

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top 5 donors or all federal grants) ÷ Total Revenue x 100 How to Use: A high dependency quotient means that losing a significant portion of the subset you are measuring could significantly impact your operations. How to Calculate: Revenue from Key Sources (e.g.,

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Understanding Nonprofit Overhead: Strategies for Transparency and Efficiency in 2025

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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%. On the positive side, the U.S. Want to dive deeper into nonprofit overhead?

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Step Up Your Systems for Success: How to Simplify, Streamline and Support Your Team w/ Teresa Huff | Instrumentl

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And the last thing I'll go over is just downloading reports. Read Ebook Watch Now Insights Straight To Your Inbox Access data on the grant funding landscape. So if April 30th comes around in 2022 and you haven't actually moved this outside of researching, Instrumentl will automatically roll that to the 2023 deadline.

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Peer Review Panels and the Federal Grant Application Evaluations Process

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When preparing your federal grant application, you would do well to put yourself – and your team – in the shoes of the people who will be evaluating it. In this post, we will look specifically at grant opportunities that are evaluated (at least in part) with the aid of a peer review panel (Note: Not all are evaluated in this way).

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OMB’s 2023 Compliance Supplement: Updates & Changes

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OMB worked with federal agencies to provide additional guidelines, clarifications, and expectations for federal grant recipients, pass-through entities, and auditors. To learn more and assess the impact of each section on your organization, download our Updates and Changes Summary. Photo by Narcisa Palici from Canva.