What’s Up These Days with the Form 1023-EZ?
The Internal Revenue Service used to have a huge problem: it generally took 18 months to two years to process even a fairly straightforward 501(c)(3)
San Francisco Charity Under Fire
She was everywhere on San Francisco’s social scene: the 78-year-old fashion diva with her enormous “statement” eyeglasses. Joy Venturini Bianchi was the face of nonprofit
Charity Shenanigans of the Billionaire-Philanthropist Doctor
In “Patient-Advocacy Nonprofits’ Dark Ties to Industry,” we examined some practices in the nonprofit sector that need a huge dose of sunlight on them to
Charities in the Courtroom, Part 7: Yanking Money from Tight Fists
“You can’t get blood out of a stone.” Apparently, that idiom was “first recorded in Giovanni Torriano’s Second Alphabet, 1662: “To go about to fetch
Patient Advocacy Nonprofits’ Dark Ties to Industry
In recent years, the secretive relationships between healthcare businesses and physicians have been exposed, leading to some much-needed reforms of the sordid practice of doctors
Executive Orders, Protest Rallies: What’s a 501(c)(3) To Do?
Recently, the big news about the politics ban on 501(c)(3) organizations is that it may disappear. Update: On May 4, 2017, the President issued an
MacArthur $100-Million Contest Semifinalists Announced
Early last summer, we reported in “The MacArthur $100-Million Grant Contest,” on the launch by the highly regarded MacArthur Foundation of an exciting contest: there
Charities in the Courtroom, Part 6: Audacious Embezzlement
So far in this series about litigation involving charities, we’ve focused on civil cases. Here, we remind you that nonprofits are also involved in criminal
Foundation Penalties: Reasonable Cause Exception?
Because private foundations receive financial support from a single source only or just a few sources, they are subject to much more significant restrictions than
What, Exactly, is a “Suggested Donation”?
When charity board members or staff sit around a conference table planning their next fundraising special event, the discussion inevitably turns to how much to
Charities in the Courtroom, Part 5
The two lawsuits highlighted this month provide more examples of the wide range of issues that take charities into the courtroom. The first is a
What’s the Latest with the Overtime Rules?
Back in May 2016, millions of Americans were handed a very large raise in pay, to be effective on December 1, 2016. It was all