Saundra Schimmelpfennig, a former aid official, takes aim at a popular target: the fixation in the charity world on administrative costs. Ms. Schimmelpfennig, who is writing a book on how aid can ...

​Key senators are already dismissing a renewed attempt by the White House to cap medical research overhead costs, well before ...

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 ...

The issue of nonprofit overhead costs continues to come up in conversations with nonprofit board members, funders, and donors. I wrote a column on this topic last year and decided to roll it out again ...

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 ...

Hospital overhead costs rose by $2.7 billion in Rhode Island between 1996 and 2022. Rhode Island hospitals have the second-highest overhead costs in the country, report says. Rhode Island faces a ...

Universities are protesting the Trump administration’s plan to limit the overhead, also known as indirect costs, covered by federal research grants. They argue this change violates a long-standing ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

The overhead ratio measures how much of a company's total revenue is spent on indirect costs. This metric is useful for identifying areas where costs can be reduced to improve profitability. Analyzing ...

In ancient Egypt, the Nile River provided fertile land for farming, but the annual floods often destroyed crops. To combat this, the Egyptians developed a system of irrigation and flood control, ...