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  • Eli

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    August 19, 2026 at 2:24 am in reply to: Financial Infrastructure Needed to Support Government Funding

    Once a nonprofit takes on government funding (especially federal pass-through), the financial infrastructure bar jumps even for otherwise well-run orgs. Some concrete things to budget for:

    – Indirect cost rate — negotiate one or elect the 10% de minimis (2 CFR 200.414). Someone needs to own this annually.

    – Segregation of duties in AP/payroll — a bookkeeper who both approves and cuts checks is a guaranteed audit finding.

    – Time-and-effort documentation for staff charged to the award — this alone trips up a lot of small orgs.

    – Sub-recipient monitoring, if they’re passing funds further downstream.

    – Single Audit readiness once federal expenditures cross $750k in a fiscal year (external audit fees + prep time).

    – Ongoing reporting cadence — quarterly or semi-annual financial + programmatic reports are common, and late/incomplete reporting is one of the most frequent findings.

    Realistically, a $1-3M org taking on its first federal award is looking at either a part-time grants/compliance hire or outsourced grants accounting, on top of the annual audit cost. We came across a tool called GrantDeskHQ (grantdeskhq.com) to help with post-award reporting and compliance. Hope that helps!

  • Eli

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    August 17, 2026 at 5:00 am in reply to: Recommendations for nonprofit social enterprise accounting services

    While it’s not an accounting firm, GrantDeskHQ.com can definitely help you with post-award reporting and financial management – they’ve got an AI-powered solution that automates a lot of the process.

  • Eli

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    August 6, 2026 at 1:45 pm in reply to: How are you handling post-award grant reporting?

    Great, thanks alot. Happy to clarify if anything is unclear.

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