SEC Capstone Resources: Nonprofits, Grants, and Business Planning

By locating the 990 forms you will be able analyze the size of a nonprofit and learn about the organizations funding sources and expenditures.

The Gale Virtual Reference Database has sample business plans from non-profit organizations.

This web site provides rankings and scores for nonprofits based on their transparency and accountability.

Great source for statistical data on charities.

Contains free 990 forms.

Search 26 federal agencies for grants.

Locate Top grant making foundations, Community foundations, Corporate giving programs by state.

Searchable directory of grantmakers. You will have to register a free account.

These guides from Michigan State University provide funding sources for specific categories such as Education, Health, Homelessness, etc.

Community foundations are grantmaking public charities that are dedicated to improving the lives of people in a defined local geographic area.

The NonProfit Times was launched in April 1987 and quickly became the go-to publications for news, business columns and original research. Each November issue includes The NPT 100, the ranking by revenue of the nation’s largest nonprofits that receive at least 10 percent of income from public sources. The August issue unveils the annual NPT Power & Influence Top 50, a feature of the 50 movers and shakers in the nonprofit world during the previous 12 months. The NonProfit Times commission independent research several times each year, which is published as a special report.

NPQ was launched as a national print journal in the winter of 1999 and was designed to fill a gap by providing credible, research based articles for nonprofits about management and governance. Soon after it began it also started to cover issues related to the operating environment for nonprofits, specifically public policy and philanthropy. NPQ’s quarterly print journal soon became known as The Harvard Business Review for the nonprofit sector.