Not-For-Profit/Government

Indirect Cost Strategies

Is your tribe receiving its proper share of indirect cost reimbursements?
How can your tribe increase its unrestricted general fund revenues?
Are you confused by what you are allowed to include and exclude?

If these questions are familiar to you, then Moss Adams’ Indirect Cost Strategies service could be what you need. We will provide a free assessment of your last indirect cost rate calculation to review whether your tribal government could be recovering more indirect revenues while, at the same time, maintaining program integrity.

If we don’t find a way to improve your indirect cost recoveries, you don’t pay.

Here are some actual examples of how we have helped tribal clients improve their indirect cost reimbursements with our services:

Client A, which had been receiving approximately $450,000 per year in indirect cost reimbursements for many years, doubled their indirect revenues without reducing program services by following our strategies.
Client B, by following just one of our strategies, realized an immediate increase of $238,000 per year in indirect reimbursements.
Client C increased projected indirect cost reimbursements to their general fund of 34 percent, with no reduction in program services.
Our analysis for Client D resulted in recommendations to restructure the tribe’s indirect cost proposal that resulted in new general fund revenue of $500,000 per year.
Our review of Client E’s indirect cost proposal identified one key strategy involving the exclusion of an item from the direct cost base. Our suggestion helped the tribe increase its available indirect cost reimbursement by $199,000 per year.