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What Are Payroll Grants and Where Can I Find Them?

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Payroll Grants are rare, but like precious gems, you can find them, if you know where to mine! If you’re new to grant seeking, you may quickly realize that most funders don’t cover payroll expenses. So, what exactly are payroll grants where can you find them? The answer is easy.

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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%. It also includes any legal fees as well as insurance and general office management, like copy paper and ink for the printer.

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7 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Build a Strong Financial Foundation in 2024

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Tip 1: Categorize your revenue types, such as fundraising, grants, and earned income. Make Sure You’re Ready for Your Next Government Grant Government grants are a great addition to any nonprofit’s balance sheet. If you are not prepared for the requirements, a government grant can create more problems than they solve.

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Introduction to Nonprofit Program Budgets

Grant Writing Made Easy

At our most recent Grant Writing Made Easy workshop, we did a deep dive into nonprofit program budgets. Indirect Expenses: These include administrative and overhead costs, all the costs of all departments outside of the program department, such as finance, human resources, and development. Step 3: Make calculations.

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Your Unrestricted Funds Need Stewardship, Too

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Restricted funds are donations or grants that can only be used for the purposes specified by the funder. Many grants, especially federal and state grants, are restricted. So, the organizations behind the grants use the reporting requirements to make sure the funds go towards addressing those impact areas.

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Breaking Down the Budget

Grant Geek

Grant Questions? Everything you need to know to develop a brilliant grant proposal budget. A grant proposal budget outlines your intended expenses if you are awarded the grant funding, specific to the project or program stated in your proposal. Fringe includes the insurance and benefits for the staff.

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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

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These are also known as indirect costs, expenses that cannot be tied directly to programs. Fees paid to fundraising consultants or outsourced help like a grant writer. Focus on one signature event, 10 grant proposals, and 1,000 new donors each year. This includes: Staff time attributable to fundraising. Legal services.