Category Money & Budgets

Managing records and financial statements

How are your homeschool groups’ records? Scattered, missing, lost? One homeschool group has organized all their important papers in a binder using HomeschoolCPA’s Homeschool Board Member Manual template. In this podcast episode, the leader showed Carol Topp her board binder.…

Finding grants for your homeschool group

Nicole Doyle, a homeschool leader from Georgia, shared with me several places where she received grants for her homeschool group: WalMart Foundation gave her group $500 Target gave $350 for field trips Publix (grocery store) gave Nicole’s homeschool group $200…

Financial Symposium (online) for Homeschool Leaders

Virtual Symposium for Homeschool Leaders with Carol Topp, CPA on Friday July 15, 2022 at 12 noon EDT Three online workshops on important financial and management issues for leaders of groups of any size. Creating and Running a Nonprofit Financial…

Can excess supply fees be used to pay other expenses?

Our homeschool co-op charges families a registration fee to cover administrative costs and a per-class supply fees to cover supplies/materials for individual classes. This past year we have a pretty good surplus on supply fee income.  Teachers ended up not…