tax-exempt status
Nonprofit Learns to Pay Attention the Hard Way
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A nonprofit in a small town in North Carolina organizes a local public event, only to discover that it had never actually submitted its tax-exemption paperwork to the IRS.
Organizational Mismanagement
All Margin, No Mission? The Story of Chicago’s Better Housing Foundation
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In Chicago, a nonprofit succeeds in collecting millions in housing development and management fees but fails to provide quality affordable housing.
Are Proposals to Tax Credit Unions a New Nonprofit Policy Front?
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There has been an effort in the nation’s capital to question the tax exemption for not-for-profit credit unions, despite the fact that the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act fully kept this exemption intact, and some states are moving in the same direction.
Hospital Care
Hospitals in California Seek to Reduce Charity Requirements
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Several hospitals in California have petitioned the state attorney general to reduce the amount of charitable work they are required to do. But is that the direction in which nonprofits should be traveling?
Hospital Care
Will Nonprofit Hospitals Have to Defend Their Tax Exemptions Next?
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As the recent tax bill provision for universities with large endowments illustrates, the tax benefits a nonprofit receives can be taken away. Nonprofit hospitals, which have their own challenges, would do well to pay attention.
Nonprofit Management
White Nationalist Charity’s Form 990 Tells a Strange Tale Involving a Community Foundation
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The Form 990 information released by Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute discloses more than its own financial activities. It also points to gifts from a Georgia community foundation’s donor-advised fund, forcing the foundation to explain its own due diligence and gift reporting.
decision-making
Lighthouse Home and its Tax Exemption: A Molehill Into a Mountain
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A small women’s shelter finds its tax exemption rescinded even as it struggles to survive. What might have been done differently?
tax exempt
Does Being a Nonprofit Matter to the Market? The HMO Tax Status Question
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Economist and columnist Edward Lotterman observes that Minnesota is about to be the last state to permit the establishment and operation of for-profit health maintenance organizations. What will that change mean for consumers and the market?
Nonprofit health insurers
HCSC: When is a Nonprofit Executive’s Salary an Affront to the Public?
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Serving the common good may not require a vow of poverty, but doesn’t it require a modicum of restraint where top salaries are concerned? This nonprofit insurer evidently does not think so.
Nonprofit News
House Mulls Koskinen Impeachment over IRS Scandal
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John Koskinen wasn’t IRS Commissioner when the IRS scandal was discovered, but his actions related to the scandal’s investigations have placed him in political controversy.