Category: Non-Profit

thank you card

At Dugan & Lopatka, we are seeing more and more nonprofit organizations receive charitable gifts from donor-advised funds. You can think of these like charitable investment accounts. The IRS provides guidance on gift substantiation on their website. Read the article for our full summary.

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in kind contributions

Last Fall, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) intended to improve transparency in the reporting of contributed nonfinancial assets, also known as gifts-in-kind, for not-for-profit organizations. Read the article to learn more about it.

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Not-for-profit accounting firms

Nonprofit organizations often rely on non-cash contributions from donors, called in-kind contributions. The most common are donated assets, space, and services. There are many different methods organizations use to value these types of contributions. In this article, we look at some of the common ways to determine the value of in-kind contributions.

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grant program

To assist those impacted by COVID-19, DuPage County in conjunction with Choose DuPage, is providing grants to eligible businesses, nonprofits and 1099 workers to use for business expenses such as payroll, utilities, and rent.