Welcome to your daily briefing on nonprofit developments in Pennsylvania. Today we're covering 6 key stories including updates on pennsylvania nonprofit headlines, background & context. Let's dive in.
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Harbor Compliance outlines how Pennsylvania nonprofits can navigate charitable solicitation registration and maintain fundraising compliance.
PA nonprofit professionals must understand these requirements to legally solicit donations and avoid penalties that could disrupt their mission.
The Foundation for Enhancing Communities is accepting applications for Grant Cycle 2, offering competitive funding to nonprofits serving South Central Pennsylvania with a deadline of May 1, 2026.
PA nonprofit professionals have a time-limited opportunity to secure funding from a regional foundation specifically serving their communities.
The PA Foundation offers IMPACT Grants to support physician associate-led, community-based health projects that demonstrate measurable impact on patient health outcomes.
Nonprofit professionals in PA may partner with physician associates to strengthen community health programming and access new funding streams for patient-centered initiatives.
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The IRS-recommended COI policy requires (1) annual disclosure by all directors and key employees, (2) a process for review of any disclosed conflict, (3) recusal procedures, and (4) documentation in board minutes. Policies that have only the disclosure form without the review and recusal process do not satisfy the recommendation.
A weak COI policy is a Schedule L disclosure waiting to happen, and Schedule L disclosures correlate with future IRS examination selection.
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.
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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