Welcome to your daily briefing on nonprofit developments in Indiana. Today we're covering 7 key stories including updates on india nonprofit headlines, india nonprofit updates, background & context. Let's dive in.
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The Community Foundation of Southern Indiana now accepts grant applications from nonprofit organizations on a continuous basis throughout the year.
IN nonprofit professionals gain flexible, ongoing access to funding without restrictive deadlines, helping them sustain operations and respond to emerging community needs.
The Lilly Endowment is providing grants to community foundations and United Ways to enhance quality of life and prosperity for Indiana communities and residents.
Indiana nonprofit professionals leading community foundations or United Ways should review this funding opportunity to potentially advance their local impact.
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The Council on Foundations published a legal framework guide covering nonprofit organizations in India, including translated legislative provisions for U.S. foundations conducting equivalency determinations of foreign grantees under IRS Revenue Procedure 2017-53.
IN-based foundations making international grants can use this resource to meet IRS requirements when supporting Indian nonprofits.
Instrumentl maintains an updated grant database with over 160 active funding opportunities specifically for Indiana 501(c)(3) organizations, including listings for Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Bloomington.
Indiana nonprofit professionals can streamline their grant research by accessing a single, regularly updated source of statewide opportunities rather than searching multiple platforms.
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The streamlined Form 1023-EZ is available only to organizations meeting specific limits on projected revenue, assets, and activity types. Filing 1023-EZ when ineligible produces a determination that is technically valid but vulnerable to retroactive revocation if discovered. The full 1023 is harder to file but harder to challenge.
Loss of exemption is retroactive to the original determination, exposing the organization to back-tax liability. The eligibility checklist is the only protection.
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.
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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