annual certification
- instructions to grantees on how to prepare their annual certification
requesting a grant
audit procedures - a list of audit procedures
useful for any organization, but most especially our grantees
BBB on IRS - the Better Business Bureau
discusses IRS
BBB & public accountability- The Better Business
Bureau's own standards and how we reduced them to minimums for easier
use for less sophisticated SMA organizations
Beginners - a page for beginners to either this web-site
OR any web-site
Beliefs
- a statement by the founder, written in 1997, before this Foundation was even
a dream
Calendar- our annual calendar with dates of our normal
activities
certification-example
- an letter for grantees to copy, edit, and then use to send to us annually.
Correspondence - recent correspondence
relating to questions (and answers) that outside people had regarding this
Foundation
crisis - a crisis that we are going through (or went through, depending on when you
read this)
Eligibility - what are the basic requirements for eligibility of a prospective grantee
ETFs - an article "Understanding Exchange Traded
Funds" and our recommendations for which ones to buy as investments
suitable for this Foundation's needs
examples - for your use: how to create financial statements (including elementary
bookkeeping)
FAQs - frequently asked questions
Fast Track - a shortcut or faster way to make a 1st
grant request (but, only for each year's "one-time" grant). A
request for an "ongoing grant" is a later step for such a new
organization
financials-example
- an illustration (example or format) of good financial statements.
Form990EZ
- a copy of IRS Form 990EZ for your review, where necessary
founders will - extracts from the founder's will that effects you and all other
grantees
funding - how is the funding of this Foundation guaranteed (by the above will) to be funded
Goals & Mission - The MPWCF's goals and mission
grantees - our past and present grantees
help us - we need YOUR help
history-estimates - history of founder's increases in his personal fortune, and
and how it effects the MPWCF's expected
endowment
Home - the home page, the first page, the index page, of
this web-site
internal control - a review of internal control. useful for any
SMA organization, big or small
IRS financial
requirements - - IRS's requirements re: any grantee's financial
information
IRS information - information reqarding IRS and its
requirements for us, the MPWCF
IRS regulations - extracts from IRS publications regarding
contributions/donations
Legalities - legal documents supporting the foundation's
status and its qualifying for charitable organization treatment
lifetime achievement - our funding of our annual Stirling Dickinson Lifetime Achievement Award
minutes - minutes of our annual Board meetings
miscellaneous - all services provided by this
Foundation (grants of money and grants of management aid)
replace founder - instructions to the
replacement trustee (and the other trustees) when the time comes to replace the founder after his death
requirements for the first year - initial requirements for a first-time prospective grantee
requirements for future years - ongoing requirements for a grantee returning for the second or later years
Site Map
- this site map that you are now viewing
some additional details - additional details of requirements for grantees returning for the second or later years
status lately - the most
recent computations of our continuing and projected financial status
subsequent changes - changes to this web-site
occurring AFTER the founder has died
Table of Contents Page - Table of Contents page for this
web-site
transparency awards - details regarding our Transparency contests,
whenever applicable
Trustees - the details and instructions that help our trustees run this foundation,
now and most importantly (as a restriction in the Founder's will) after his
death.
volunteers - what we believe local
organizations should be doing with their OWN volunteers
why this info - why we MUST have the information we request - there are no legal ways for us
NOT to receive this required information and still give ongoing grants,
