Welcome to your daily briefing on nonprofit developments in Delaware. Today we're covering 8 key stories including updates on germany nonprofit headlines, background & context. Let's dive in.
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Delaware First Health and the Centene Foundation have launched an open submission period for community-based organizations and providers across Delaware to apply for grant funding through June 13, 2025.
This creates a timely funding opportunity for Delaware nonprofit professionals serving health and community needs in the state.
Tax990 has published a guide covering how to start a nonprofit corporation in Delaware, obtain tax-exempt status, and meet DE annual report requirements.
For Delaware nonprofit professionals, this resource clarifies key compliance obligations that keep your organization in good standing with the state.
The Delaware Community Foundation is offering grants to support organizations and initiatives that help all Delaware residents overcome barriers to success and benefit equitably.
Nonprofit professionals in DE can access funding to advance equity and remove obstacles to success for the communities they serve.
The Delaware Community Foundation announced $545,000 in Meet the Moment grants to support Delaware nonprofits.
This funding round offers a significant opportunity for Delaware nonprofit professionals seeking operational or programmatic support from a major state funder.
GrantWatch has created a dedicated Delaware portal to help nonprofits, schools, religious organizations, and municipalities find relevant grants.
Delaware nonprofit professionals now have a centralized, local resource to streamline their grant research and reduce time spent filtering irrelevant opportunities.
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Most states require charities soliciting donations from their residents to register before solicitation, regardless of where the charity is based. "Solicitation" includes web fundraising pages accessible to residents, not just direct mail. Compliance gaps surface during state attorney-general inquiries or unrelated litigation discovery.
Penalties range from civil fines to suspension of solicitation rights in the state. Larger consequences include negative coverage in donor research databases that fund foundation grants.
Donor-restricted gifts must be tracked separately and used only for the restricted purpose; using them for general operations — even with intent to "pay back" later — is a fiduciary breach and an audit finding. The most-common fact pattern: cash-flow shortage in operations, restricted-grant balance available, transfer "borrowed" with no formal repayment plan.
State attorneys general have authority over restricted-gift compliance and have pursued individual board members and executives. Auditors are required to disclose restricted-fund violations in the management letter.
Form 990 is required to be made public by the filing organization on request and is indexed by ProPublica and others within weeks of filing. Sections most boards underestimate: Schedule J (top-staff compensation), Schedule L (transactions with interested persons), and Schedule O (narrative explanations that "soften" other answers). Donors and reporters read these.
Items that read fine in management's narrative often read very differently in print. Pre-filing review by a non-finance board member catches optics issues that a CFO will not.
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