Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1288, his office announced Sept. 27. For deaths from Jan. 1, 2027, a firm must try to notify a nonprofit beneficiary within 60 days of learning of the death, may not make it open an account and in most cases must hand over its share within 60 days of its paperwork.
The request reached Congress on Sept. 25, five days before the money was due to expire, so it lapses before lawmakers can act. The largest item, $567 million, comes from the account that pays for refugee resettlement programs.
The Erie Community Foundation announced the final total of its 24-hour online giving day, held Aug. 11, on Sept. 25. The money grew from last year's $11.4 million, but the 11,913 donors and 31,521 gifts were fewer than in 2025.
Anchored by a $10 million grant from the Walmart Foundation, the Arkansas Full Table Fund takes applications from Oct. 1 to Dec. 7 for two-year pilot grants of up to $200,000 in three areas: federal nutrition programs, the charitable food system and new local ideas.
In a Sept. 24 opinion, the court found that the founder of Senecura signed a no-interest note for both sides when the money went to his real estate company, and did not pay it back in time. Most of the bill is the 200 percent tax on an excess benefit left uncorrected.
The Department of Homeland Security chose the recipients under its Nonprofit Security Grant Program, Maryland's congressional delegation said on Sept. 24. The list names every recipient but not what each one receives.
Council Member Lincoln Restler's agenda, reported on Sept. 28, asks City Hall for faster bridge loans, a 10-week push on unpaid invoices and public data on delays. Its one bill, introduced Sept. 10, would set model staffing plans for the agencies that manage human services contracts.
New York. The chair of the New York City Council's Committee on Contracts, Council Member Lincoln Restler, has laid out 11 steps to get nonprofits with human services contracts paid on time. His office's page for the plan, titled "Getting Non-Profits Paid", carries no date; City & State reported it on Sept. 28.
The agenda says the city buys $15.6 billion a year in goods and services from the human services sector, and that nonprofits wait an average of 388 days after a contract's start date before they are reimbursed, which forces them to take out loans.
Most of the 11 points are requests to City Hall and the Mayor's Office of Contract Services rather than legislation. One concerns the Returnable Grant Fund, the city's interest-free loan program for human services providers, whose loans are issued by the Fund for the City of New York. Nonprofits apply through the agency that holds their contract, and the agenda says they should not have to wait on the same staff who are slow to register it. It asks for one designated reviewer at each agency, more lenders, money for every nonprofit that seeks a loan and decisions within 14 days.
The City Council approved the 14 extensions on Sept. 24 over Mayor Kirk Watson's objection. A staff review of 133 social service agreements worth $48.2 million recommended no cuts, and every agreement is subject to changes or a new solicitation before Oct. 1, 2027.
The Travelers Championship gave its final count on Sept. 24, up from more than 270 charities in its first tally in June. Many of them took part through Birdies for Charity, which adds a bonus of 15% to what each charity collects.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture named the recipients on Sept. 28. Food shelves, food banks and other grantees in 15 counties will buy food grown and raised in the state and give it away, under a state program modeled on a former federal one.
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Reps. Joe Neguse and Don Bacon introduced the Safe Spaces for All Act on July 27 and announced it on Sept. 17. It would add onsite security staff, off-duty police officers and application costs to what the Nonprofit Security Grant Program may pay for. It is still in committee.
Starting Jan. 1, 2027, a credit of up to $1,700 covers gifts to scholarship granting organizations that a participating state lists. Treasury said it would propose the rules by the end of September; none had appeared by Sept. 28, and Washington's governor is waiting for them.
The foundation announced the total on Sept. 10 at Atlanta City Hall. It covers research, training and grants in three initiatives: for girls, for parents with young children, and a new one for mental health. The foundation does not take unsolicited proposals.
The Alabama State Council on the Arts announced 247 grants on Sept. 16, paid for by the Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts. Applications for its arts facilities grants, of up to $100,000, open Oct. 1.
The Westlake foundation's third-quarter grants, announced Sept. 15, go to groups in Cleveland, western Cuyahoga County and Lorain County, four of them first-time grantees. Its next round, for community service organizations, is by invitation and closes Oct. 15.
The NBA team's foundation presented its summer grants on Sept. 22 to groups in four Central Florida counties. Letters of intent for its winter cycle open Oct. 2 and close Oct. 23.
Gov. Wes Moore announced the second round on Sept. 10, and it opened Sept. 22. Grocery stores, corner stores, farmers markets and other retailers, nonprofit or for-profit, can seek $25,000 to $150,000; $1.67 million of the money is federal and only for retailers in rural counties.
The Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation announced its five-year Big Bet for Pets on Sept. 17. Its first two open calls, 250 grants of $10,000 and a $10 million pool of multi-year grants for clinics ready to grow, close on Dec. 16 at the latest.
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The company's television stations named this year's Local Impact Grants winners on Sept. 23, five to eight in each market. The program is open only to nonprofits with total expenses between $100,000 and $1 million.
The association, which holds Q Casino's gaming license, awarded $250,000 in Mission Grants in June and $1.26 million in Core Grants in July to organizations in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Its Core Grant round drew 152 applications asking for more than $7.59 million.
Council Bill 58-2026, by Council Member Deb Jung, had its public hearing Sept. 22, where leaders of nonprofits that serve county residents testified against it as written. No amendments had been filed by Sept. 29, and the council has not voted.
Gov. Wes Moore announced the second round on Sept. 10, and it opened Sept. 22. Grocery stores, corner stores, farmers markets and other retailers, nonprofit or for-profit, can seek $25,000 to $150,000; $1.67 million of the money is federal and only for retailers in rural counties.
The agency announced the grants on Sept. 18. Most of the money goes to governments, for 115 projects Congress chose and for floodplain management. A $1.5 million earthquake program was the one part nonprofits could compete for, and its applications closed Aug. 14.
The grocery chain's foundation announced its largest hunger gift yet on Sept. 22, $10 million more than last year. Part of it pays for trucks and other one-time costs at Feeding America food banks.
The NBA team's foundation presented its summer grants on Sept. 22 to groups in four Central Florida counties. Letters of intent for its winter cycle open Oct. 2 and close Oct. 23.
The health insurer's foundation announced the grants on Sept. 22. Its guidelines for the program describe four-year grants of $300,000 to $400,000, and this year's round is closed.
In a brief filed Sept. 21, the government argued that a Texas judge had the power to approve the settlement he refused in March. It would bar the IRS from applying the Johnson Amendment to two churches' election speech in their services, and to no one else.
Applications close Oct. 23. The round is open only to 501(c)(3) public charities that serve King County, Wash., and have not received or been invited to receive Microsoft corporate grant money in 2026. A second round opens in spring 2027.
Senate Bill 420 has been on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk since Sept. 4. If he neither signs nor vetoes it by Sept. 30, it becomes law without his signature and takes effect Jan. 1.
Starting Jan. 1, 2027, a credit of up to $1,700 covers gifts to scholarship granting organizations that a participating state lists. Treasury said it would propose the rules by the end of September; none had appeared by Sept. 28, and Washington's governor is waiting for them.
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