--- title: "Donations, Grants, Fundraisers & Other Revenue" slug: "donations-grants-fundraisers-other-revenue" updated: 2024-04-12T21:03:06Z published: 2024-04-12T21:03:06Z canonical: "www.procaresupport.com/donations-grants-fundraisers-other-revenue" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.procaresupport.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Donations, Grants, Fundraisers & Other Revenue You may track revenue from donations, grants, fundraisers, scholarships and other sources separately from normal child care tuition. In some cases, these funds may be set aside and used for specific purposes. [Embedded content](https://www.youtube.com/embed/6rD91vZJYOw) [Embedded content](https://www.youtube.com/embed/_nHgy8qJ-is) ## GL Numbers for Donations, Grants, etc. You may wish to add new General Ledger account numbers to your [Chart of Accounts](/procare-desktop/docs/chart-of-accounts), such as: a. A generic revenue account like “Grants, Donations and Fundraisers” or separate, more specific revenue accounts for each category. Money given to [Provide Scholarships](https://procaresupport.com/scholarships/) to children often would have a separate account number. ![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Family+Accounting/Donations%2C+Grants%2C+Fundraisers+%26+Other+Revenue_1213_1.png) b. If you wish to track the remaining balance available, create an asset account like “Grant Funds” or “United Way Funds”. Be sure to assign the asset to both your list of [Bank Accounts](https://procaresupport.com/bank-accounts/) and [Deposit Accounts](https://procaresupport.com/deposit-accounts/), so you may deposit funds to it and write checks against it. This would not apply to scholarships, since scholarships are credits given to specific children/families. ![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Family+Accounting/Donations%2C+Grants%2C+Fundraisers+%26+Other+Revenue_1213_2.png) ## Choose Family Accounting or Make a Journal Entry There are two basic methods for recording revenue from donations, grants, fundraisers or other sources. a. If you want the funds to be included on [Deposit Reports](https://procaresupport.com/deposit-reports/), you’ll record the revenue in the Family Accounting module. You may track the amounts as a lump sum or family by family. See: [Family Accounting – Below](https://procaresupport.com/donations-grants-fundraisers-other-revenue/#fam-acctg) b. If you have the Expenses & Ledger module, and don’t need the funds to show on a Deposit Report, you could make a journal entry instead. This is a quick way to enter the revenue as a lump sum. See: [Make a Journal Entry](/procare-desktop/docs/make-a-journal-entry-general-journals) (Example 1) (https://procaresupport.com/make-journal-entry-general-journals/) ## Family Accounting 1. At the [Charge / Credit Descriptions](https://procaresupport.com/charge-credit-payment-descriptions/) screen: 1. On the *Other Charge* tab set up *Descriptions* like “Donation”, “Grant”, etc. and assign them to the *GL Account(s)* you previously created. ![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Family+Accounting/Donations%2C+Grants%2C+Fundraisers+%26+Other+Revenue_1213_3.png) 2. **Optional:** If you want reports to show the money received separate from other payments by check or cash, go to the *Payment* tab and create *Descriptions* like “Donation Payment”, “Grant Payment”, etc. ![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Family+Accounting/Donations%2C+Grants%2C+Fundraisers+%26+Other+Revenue_1213_4.png) 2. Choose whether to record lump sum or family by family totals. Hint: To track donors who do not have children at the center, enter each donor as a new family and [Create a Tracking Item](https://procaresupport.com/tracking-items-global-local/) called “Donor”. You could even send fund raising letters (using [Letter Merge](https://procaresupport.com/letter-merge-word-processor/)) to people in the “Donor” group. 1. **Lump Sum Totals:** To track totals for all families added together, enter a [New Family](https://procaresupport.com/account-family-information/) called something like “Donation Revenue” (first name “Donation”, last name “Revenue”). Post a “Donation” charge and “Donation Payment” (or Pmt by Check, Cash, etc.) for the full amount received on the Ledger Card. ![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Family+Accounting/Donations%2C+Grants%2C+Fundraisers+%26+Other+Revenue_1213_5.png) 2. **Family Totals:** To track individual family contributions, post a “Donation” charge and “Donation Payment” (or Pmt by Check, Cash, etc.) on the [Ledger Card](https://procaresupport.com/account-ledger-card/) of each family. ![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Family+Accounting/Donations%2C+Grants%2C+Fundraisers+%26+Other+Revenue_1213_6.png) 3. On [Deposit Reports](https://procaresupport.com/deposit-reports/) choose to deposit the funds to a separate asset account (like “Grant Funds”) or your regular bank account or split up the deposit any way you like. Scholarship deposits would typically go to your regular bank account. ![Image showing directions in article](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.procaresoftware.com/pdfs/Support+Site+Images/Desktop/Family+Accounting/Donations%2C+Grants%2C+Fundraisers+%26+Other+Revenue_1213_7.png) **Note 1:** Use a separate asset account if you wish to track the remaining balance of these funds as they are used. Once deposited, record the money spent when you make [Payments to a Vendor](/procare-desktop/docs/issue-a-check-to-a-vendor) by selecting this asset as the *Checkbook* from which to deduct the funds. For amounts owed to your school, such as scholarship subsidies, you may periodically transfer those amounts either by writing a check or entering a journal entry to move the funds from the Grant Funds account to your Primary Checking account. This maintains an accurate balance in your Grant Funds account. **Note 2:** Since [Bank Statement Reconciliation](/procare-desktop/docs/bank-statement-reconciliation) is done separately for each asset, having a physically separate bank account is ideal. If you have a single bank account and just break out the assets on paper, reconciliation could be quite complex and you would never have a true, combined ending balance.