Jay Greene is a senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Defenders of 60% overhead rates, however, insist that they absolutely need this money to cover ...

"Our size constrains how comfortable we are raising our rates. I don't want to raise rates more than 4 or 5%, because our clients come to us because we offer something different than those big firms," ...

A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that the National Institutes of Health cannot unilaterally cap the indirect-cost rate on its grants at 15 percent, continuing a freeze on the controversial ...

The Ford Foundation works with thousands of nonprofits, each with different needs and structures. Yet its program grants pay for related indirect costs at a single rate — 20 percent of the grant. Such ...

Late last Friday, Feb. 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it was immediately capping overhead rates on all research grants at 15%. Because most research universities rely on overhead ...

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued guidance capping the “indirect costs” of all NIH grants at 15%. Universities such as Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard have been ...

As a former corporate controller and senior vice president of operations, I have experienced both sides of allocated overhead. I have learned manufacturing executives have more control over costs ...