What Every Grantmaker Should Know & Legal FAQs

This resource from MCF contains:

Foreword

  • Letter to Colleagues and Friends
  • Principles for Grantmakers

What Every Grantmaker Should Know

  • Board Fiduciary Duties
  • Private Foundation Self-Dealing
  • Excess Benefit Transactions
  • Board Compensation
  • Staff Compensation
  • Conflicts of Interest
  • Reporting and Disclosure
  • Investments
  • Grantmaking
  • Public Policy Engagement

Frequently Asked Legal Questions

  • Lobbying
  • Endowment Funds
  • Community Foundations
  • Private Foundation Self-Dealing
  • Board Fiduciary Duties
  • Investments
  • Private Foundations vs. Public Charities
  • 5% Payout Rule
  • Grantmaking
  • Annual Reporting and Public Disclosure
  • Financial Audits