Once the use of 501c4 nonprofits to raise campaign dollars was largely dominated by the right, but no longer. The grassroots organizing that 501c4 groups encourage is positive, but the rising power of billionaire—and sometimes secret—donors is not.
There is concern being raised in Missouri about the use of hidden money in the gubernatorial campaign and how closely the candidate worked with the organization supplying the funds for campaign ads.
Let’s remind ourselves as we prepare for the next two years, where much damage can be done and much progress made, that nonprofits have a fundamentally American role in helping to organize and educate the population for civic action and engagement—indeed, to teach individuals the very basic skills of democracy itself.
A US District Court judge’s ruling requires groups that spend money on political campaigns, including 501c4 “dark money” organizations, to reveal the source of their donors.
There’s a new wrinkle to the 501c4 dark money game. A progressive umbrella nonprofit is acting as fiscal sponsor for numerous groups spending millions to influence US House races this year.
Governor Bullock says that by neglecting its duties in regulating dark money in nonprofits, the IRS and Trump administration have pushed the costs of responsibly monitoring tax and election laws onto the states—and Montana won’t let it happen without a fight.
The Treasury Department has announced that tax-exempt organizations that aren’t 501c3 charities or Section 527 PACs will no longer have to disclose their donors on the IRS Form 990. Don’t miss the implications for the rest of us.
This special report, by consulting editor Michael Wyland, is a first-of-its-kind analysis of the combined effects on the nonprofit sector of the relatively new IRS nonprofit automatic revocation process and the introduction of the 1023-EZ. Be sure to join us on Facebook this afternoon for a short but lively question-and-answer session with the author.
The canard of the outside organizer roiling up discontent doesn’t really fit when it comes to the student gun control protestors, and it may end up biting the GOP in the hindquarters.
A dispute between the Veterans in Defense of Liberty and the Better Business Bureau raises the usual questions of fundraising ethics, as well as whether BBB’s standards should apply to non-charitable nonprofits.
