Blackbaud
JULY 18, 2025
Know your numbers: Review any similar programs and calculate average cost per participant, personnel time allocation percentages, and indirect cost ratios to inform budget projections. Establish your indirect cost rate: Calculate your cost rate and understand the de minimis rate available to your organization.
Blackbaud
JUNE 20, 2025
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%. Overhead vs Indirect Costs: What’s the Difference? Indirect costs are the overhead expenses incurred as part of a government grant.
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Blackbaud
JUNE 16, 2025
Whitepaper 4 Ways Personalized Reporting Helps Your Nonprofit Make Better Strategic Decisions Download Now Distributing Your Stewardship Reports Efficiently distributing stewardship reports requires thoughtful strategies, so stakeholders receive timely, accurate information.
Blackbaud
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Tip 4: Calculate your indirect cost or make an intentional decision to use the de minimis rate. Knowing how you want to handle indirect costs before you apply for government grants will speed up the application and reporting processes. Receiving the Grant Award Congratulations on winning the grant!
GiveSmart
MARCH 12, 2024
Along with expenses connected directly to the event, there are also indirect costs to account for, such as staff salaries. To figure out the event’s net gain, or how much the programming brought, nonprofit staff must subtract its direct and indirect expenses from the total proceeds.
Tech Soup
MARCH 30, 2015
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Peak Proposals
AUGUST 1, 2023
Always do a thorough review of the solicitation to look out for references to templates, which sometimes are included in the solicitation as blank forms but often are only referenced in the solicitation and must be downloaded separately from the funder’s website. Most funders list their policy on indirects in the solicitations.
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