2025 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations

The 28th Annual Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations (WCTEO), my #1 go-to conference every year for the past 19 years, will be held in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 27, and Friday, February 28. You can join a waitlist for the sold-out conference by emailing nonprofits@law.ucla.edu.

The UCLA School of Law Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofits and Loyola Law School are pleased to announce that they will host the 28th Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations on February 27 and February 28, 2025, at The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities in Downtown Los Angeles. Last year’s two-day conference was sold out, with nearly 150 lawyers, accountants and in-house professionals representing a broad range of nonprofit organizations. Government officials will give federal and state updates, and prominent nonprofit practitioners, academics, and other experts from the sector will speak on current topics in nonprofit tax, state law, accounting and other compliance matters. The tax press covers this event extensively, and material from the conference continues to be cited as authority in articles and books.

Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 8:00 A.M. – 6:30 P.M.
Friday, February 28, 2025 | 8:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

Event Venue and Host:
The California Endowment
1000 Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

This year’s schedule includes the following sessions:

  • Power Hour
  • The Challenges of For-Profit/Nonprofit Structures
  • Data Protection and Privacy Law
  • Lunch and Keynote—When Should Universities Speak Out?
  • Loper Bright—The End of Judicial Deference to the IRS?
  • International Hot Topics: What in the World is Going On?
  • Accounting Updates: What All EO Practitioners Need to Know
  • Breakout: Private Foundation Hot Topics‍
  • Breakout: Advocacy in a Post-Election Year
  • Breakout: Executive Compensation Hot Topics
  • The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

NEO Law Group Principal Erin Bradrick will be a panelist on the Executive Compensation session. I’ll be moderating the Advocacy session, a topic that has been top of mind of many since the inauguration.

If you’re new to the WCTEO, please come say “hi.”

WCTEO Highlights from Past Years

2024 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2022 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2021 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2020 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2019 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2018 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2017 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2016 Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2015 Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2014 Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)

2013 Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations (WCTEO)