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The Calendar Every Foundation Should Keep

Five dates govern a private foundation's year. Select your fiscal year-end and see yours — stated plainly, the way your board should see them.

Fiscal Year-End
Registered in New York?
One Honest Caveat

Statutory deadlines that fall on weekends or federal holidays roll to the next business day, fiscal-year arithmetic has edge cases, and foundations registered outside New York carry their own state calendars. This page is educational, not tax or legal advice — it exists so the dates stop living in one person's head. Keeping them, meeting them, and proving they were met is what Meridian does for its clients.