Community Rules
Welcome to Compass: A Foundant Community!
The Compass community has been created as a space for discovering solutions, learning helpful tips and tricks, contributing expertise and exchanging ideas with others in the philanthropic sector.
Here are our Community Rules:
Keep your posts relevant to the forum category.
Solicitation of funding or donations of any sort in public forums, private groups or private messages within this community is prohibited.
Please do not post any private personal information, sensitive organizational information or photos that you wouldn’t want seen by the public.
Do not post hateful or illegal content. Do not post copyrighted material without proper attribution.
SPAM will not be tolerated.
Please be respectful of others and don’t sweat the small stuff.
In short: Be kind, have fun, and let’s help each other enrich the philanthropic community!
Questions? Contact, community@foundant.com
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Is your Foundation using a Letter of Intent to screen grant applicants? If yes, how?
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Recording a spendable to Deferred Revenue account
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Recording a spendable to Deferred Revenue account
Hi, I'm trying to find a way to record a funds 2024 spendable to another fund as Deferred Revenue. We've been granted XXX dollars from this year to spend on an IT upgrade that will happen in 2025. To keep our budget balanced, I would like to defer the revenue until next year when the expense will take place. Any…