When an auditor, a court, or an enforcement agency asks whether your board was paying attention, the answer they care about is the one you can put on the table. We hear a version of this from clients after the fact. The board did review the executive director’s salary. The staff did check the grantee

One of the questions we hear most often from nonprofits that receive federal funds right now is whether OMB’s proposed rewrite of the grant rules is still coming. The answer is that it is paused, but only until December 11. In this post we explain where the rule stands, what it would change, and what

Donors often ask what happens if a charity takes a restricted gift and then uses it for something else. The charity is bound by the restriction, but the harder question is who can make it comply. In most states that has traditionally been the attorney general, not the donor. Whether a donor can sue depends on the state, and neither Arizona nor Washington has a statute that says so directly. This post covers what donors and charities can rely on in our two states.