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Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Massachusetts and Rhode Island Charities: Unlocking Restricted Funds

For many charitable institutions, accepting gifts subject to certain donor-imposed restrictions is in the normal course of business. While these restricted funds are quite common, their usefulness can occasionally become...more

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IRS Attacks Impact Investing With Flawed Logic: A Critical Review of the IRS Argument

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On October 9th, the Internal Revenue Service released Private Letter Ruling 202041009 (the “Ruling”), which, in what many in the nonprofit community would have expected to be a relatively straight-forward exemption approval...more

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IRS Ruling Takes Aim at Impact Investing

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What many in the nonprofit community would have expected to be a direct road for tax exemption for a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization has suffered a significant set-back. On October 9th, the Internal Revenue Service...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

IRS Notice Provides Support for Socially Responsible Investing by Private Foundations

In recent years, private foundations increasingly have sought to incorporate socially responsible investing (“SRI”) mandates. Some SRI mandates take the form of negative screens—e.g., screening out tobacco stocks. Other SRI...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Breaking News: PRI Examples Are Finalized, with Improvements

Yesterday, Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) finalized the regulations describing nine new program-related investment (PRI) examples that were first proposed on April 19, 2012. The final regulations incorporate...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

New IRS Guidance on Mission-Related Investments

Recent guidance on mission-related investing should give comfort to private foundations that seek to hold their capital in assets consistent with their charitable purpose. Notice 2015-62, released by the Internal Revenue...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MoFo New York Tax Insights - Volume 6, Issue 8 - August 2015

Court Of Appeals Affirms Revocation Of Tax Exemption For Public Parking Facilities - Reversing a decision by the Appellate Division, the Court of Appeals has held in a 5-2 decision that a charitable organization is not...more

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