By NEO Law Group
Last month, we published a post on the recently revised IRS EO Technical Guide: Disqualifying and Non-Exempt Activities, Inurement and Private Benefit. This month, we share some excerpts from the Exempt Organizations Technical Guide: Disqualifying and Non-Exempt Activities – Trade or Business Activities – IRC Section 501(c)(3). This Technical...
Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants (Brianna Sacks, Washington Post) [Ed. This dubious prohibition targets nonprofits providing disaster relief funded in part by federal grants and awards. Imagine denying emergency medical relief until a disaster victim proves their...
Nonprofit board members and managers rely on delegating their responsibilities to others. Of course, the size of the organization will dictate the options, persons, groups, and contractors involved. This post is aimed principally at nonprofit corporations with at least a few employees holding management-level responsibilities and will not discuss...
Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: The Values We Share: What People Want From Government (PolicyLink) From Precarity to Promise: How Public Policy Can Reverse the Wealth Gap (Hope Wollensack, NPQ) As Government Retreats, the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Organize (Matt Watkins, Substack) Opinion: Adapt or Resist? How...
It’s exciting to learn of a new book on nonprofit law written for nonprofit leaders. Rules of the Road for Nonprofit Leaders is both accessible to persons who are not lawyers and helpful to lawyers who dabble in this practice area. Author Elizabeth M. Schmidt is a professor of...
Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: New Trump Order Injects Politics Into Federal Grant Decisions (Alex Daniels, Chronicle of Philanthropy) Executive Branch Oversight of Federal Grantmaking: A New Era? (Mehrin (“Mir”) Masud-Elias, Pari R. Mody, Amy Budner Smith, Sara Garofalo Linder, Arnold & Porter) 2025 Federal Grants Guide...
I have the pleasure of speaking at the Fiscal Sponsor Conversations forum (“FSC”) on Tuesday, August 12, at 10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT. With inspiration from an old post I wrote, Fiscal Sponsorship: Six Ways to Do It Wrong, FSC organizers Andrew Schulman and Oliver Hack asked...
Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: What Is “Civil Society”—and How Is It Under Threat? (Rebekah Barber, NPQ) These May Be the Only Donors Who Can Save the Nonprofit Sector (David Callahan, Inside Philanthropy) The Tax Law’s Big Win for Charities Makes DAF Giving Trickier (Rasheeda Childress, Chronicle...
A new nonprofit is commonly created when a program or project spins off from a separate nonprofit. Sometimes a project spins off from a fiscal sponsor, perhaps after a planned incubation period. And sometimes a program spins off from a nonprofit because of a mutual desire to provide greater...
Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: Opinion: You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next. (Vanita Gupta, NY Times) President...