Welcome to your daily briefing on nonprofit developments in Indiana. Today we're covering 8 key stories including updates on indiana nonprofit headlines, indiana 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 throughout the entire year.
IN nonprofit professionals can pursue funding on their own timeline rather than racing against fixed deadlines.
The Central Indiana Community Foundation maintains a dedicated webpage offering resources for nonprofit organizations.
IN nonprofit professionals can access tools and guidance from a major community foundation serving their region.
The Lilly Endowment is providing grants to community foundations and United Ways to enhance quality of life and prosperity for Indiana residents.
Indiana nonprofit professionals can leverage this funding stream to amplify their community impact and build sustainable local partnerships.
The Indiana Faith Alliance (IFA) has published its grants and projects webpage to connect organizations with available funding opportunities.
Nonprofit professionals in IN can explore faith-aligned grant opportunities to sustain or expand their community programs.
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The Council on Foundations has published a legal framework summary for nonprofit organizations in India, including translated legislative provisions to help foundations and advisors complete IRS equivalency determinations for foreign grantees under Revenue Procedure 2017-53.
Indiana foundations making international grants can use this resource to satisfy IRS requirements and reduce compliance risk when funding Indian NGO partners.
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Negligent-screening claims arise not from failing to have a screening policy, but from failing to follow the policy that exists. A documented policy with inconsistent enforcement is harder to defend than no policy at all, because the deviation is evidence of negligence.
Insurance carriers tighten coverage on organizations with screening-process gaps. The cost of consistent enforcement is small; the cost of a single uninvestigated incident can close the organization.
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.
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.
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