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Not-for-profits, clubs and member organisations

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Charity financial modelA registered charity delivering community services (family support, homelessness, mental health, employment, emergency relief) funded by government grants and contracts, donations and bequests, and trading such as op shops; NDIS and home-care lines use care.services and care.workforce from healthcare.Sample in Excel · live preview
Community housing provider financial modelA registered not-for-profit landlord housing low- and moderate-income tenants at rents set as a share of household income plus Commonwealth Rent Assistance, or at a discount to market, topped up by government subsidies, and growing through grants, Housing Australia finance and stock transfers.Sample in Excel · live preview
Licensed club financial modelA member-owned not-for-profit club earning bar, food, gaming and function revenue plus subscriptions, reinvesting surpluses in facilities and community contributions, taxed only on non-member income under mutuality (or exempt), and often growing by amalgamating with smaller clubs or developing surplus land.Sample in Excel · live preview
Sporting club financial modelA member-based sporting club, state or national sporting organisation, or member-owned professional club earning memberships, sponsorship, league distributions, match-day and event income and government grants, and spending it on competitions, participation programs, athletes and facilities.Sample structure in Excel
Industry association financial modelA member-based body earning subscriptions, education and certification fees, conferences and sponsorship — and, for industry-owned research and marketing bodies, statutory levies with government matching — and spending on member services, standards, advocacy and research.Sample structure in Excel
Co-operative financial modelA member-owned business — agricultural supply or marketing co-operative, purchasing or retail co-operative, or other mutual — that returns value through the price it pays or charges members and through patronage rebates rather than dividends, funded by member shares and retained surpluses.Sample structure in Excel
Foundation and endowment financial modelA private or public ancillary fund, community foundation, charitable trust or institutional endowment that invests a corpus and makes grants under a spending rule or statutory minimum distribution while aiming to preserve the corpus's real value.Sample in Excel · live preview
Indigenous corporation financial modelA land council, prescribed body corporate or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation (or its benefits trust) earning royalty and agreement income from projects on its country, leasing and investment income and government grants, and applying it to member distributions, community programs and a future fund.Sample in Excel · live preview
Religious organisation financial modelA church, diocese or religious institute funded by offerings, parish assessments, bequests and investments, often consolidating schools, aged care and community services (edu.*, aged.* and care.* jobs) and a church development fund that takes deposits and lends to parishes and schools.

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