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.
Why don’t real veteran’s groups speak out about the sham organizations out there raising millions for telemarketers and themselves?
Long recognized as “mediating structures” nonprofits have a fundamentally American role in helping to organize and educate the population for civic action and engagement, and indeed, to teach individuals the very basic skills of democracy itself.
The 108-year-old civil rights organization has elected a new president and CEO and chosen a new tax status.
