Confident Grant Expenditure Tracking

December 18th, 2025, 11 am - 12:30 pm Pacific Time on Zoom
$30 registration fee

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Do grant expenditure report requests leave you feeling lost?

You are so not alone!

So many nonprofit accountants are growing with an organization who has just started being asked for these reports as it begins to receive more robust grants. Others have moved into nonprofit accounting from for profit accounting and haven’t wrapped their head around the fund accounting complexities of nonprofit accounting yet.

As you’re figuring it out, it might be hard to know if you're on the right track or just making it more complicated than it needs to be.

Luckily, it’s a specific set of skills and tools that you can master. You can begin that journey toward mastery by learning the basics in this webinar.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• what you want to know about the flexibility of a grant or contract’s budget

• what reports you’ll want to look at on a monthly basis to track grant spend down

• how to allocate payroll expenses correctly across grants

• how to allocate your nonpayroll expenses to the correct grants

• how to get overhead/indirect costs covered by grants

• how to determine who is responsible for what in allocating expenses to grants

• what needs to be communicated to program staff

About the presenter:

Sofia Olson of Sunray Accounting Solutions is an empathetic, deliberate thinker with 20+ years of non-profit accounting experience. My superpowers are cleaning up messes; identifying what is needed in the present moment to get clearer, cleaner, more sustainable and dynamic systems to manage complex financial data; and creating and implementing those systems.

I began learning accounting as the volunteer treasurer at the Seattle Young People’s Project in 2003, and then grew my skills in various roles, including my most recent as the Finance & Operations Manager at API Chaya before I launched my consulting business.  

A point of pride in my time at work at API Chaya is that for the four audits that I was responsible for during my time there, there were not only no findings, but also no adjustments. This means that I had gotten the financial records so clean that the auditors didn’t find anything that they thought needed to be changed about them.

Upsell? I have services that I offer, ways that I directly support nonprofits in boosting their accounting capacity, and I will spend a few minutes of the webinar to let you know about them.

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