Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Florida and Louisiana
Refresh: Setting up a New Charity for Disaster Relief
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Massachusetts and Connecticut
Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. This is the ninth in a series of “Quick Tip” episodes focusing on the details of state registration of nonprofit corporations. In previous episodes, Farella's Cynthia...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and this is episode 60 of EO Radio Show. This week's episode is a refresh of episode 10, first recorded on July 3, 2022. Episode 10 provided a...more
The Israeli Supreme Court handed down a precedent-setting ruling recently in the Evangelical Episcopal Church case. According to the ruling, Israeli NPOs may receive an exemption from paying real estate betterment levies to...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and episode 55 is the sixth in a series of Quick Tip episodes focusing on the details of state registration of nonprofit corporations. In...more
The 2022 Form 990 due date is fast approaching for tax-exempt organizations that are calendar year filers. Exempt organizations with a filing obligation must submit the appropriate version of Form 990 or an extension request...more
International Charity Fraud Awareness Week October 18-22, 2021 - Please join the IRS and other international organizations and regulators by participating in the annual International Charity Fraud Awareness Week (ICFAW),...more
Earlier this year, the IRS revised Form 1023, Application for Recognition of Exemption Under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and its instructions, to help charities apply for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. In...more
Late last year, we wrote about Shore v. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, et al., in which former Atrium Health employees filed a putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North...more
The New York Assembly and Senate recently passed legislation – A.B. 10336-A (Paulin) / S.B. 8699 (Gallivan) (the “Bill”) – that would raise the minimum number of members of a not-for-profit membership corporation to three...more
On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law legislation, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), which is the most extensive overhaul of the United States Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) in 30 years. In...more
Since the Great Recession, nonprofits have been receiving less support from budget-constrained governmental agencies and fewer contributions from the private sector. Similarly, many state and other nonprofit universities have...more
Form 990-N e-Postcard page unavailable 12/26/16 to 1/6/17 - The Annual Electronic Filing Requirement for Small Exempt Organizations — Form 990-N (e-Postcard) page will be down from December 26, 2016 at 11:59 a.m. until...more
On June 16, 2016, the New York State Legislature adopted Senate Bill No. S07913B (the "Bill") modifying the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 (the "NPRA"). The following is a brief summary of the Bill’s provisions that...more
On June 16, 2016, the New York State Legislature adopted yet another round of modifications to the Nonprofit Revitalization Act of 2013 (the "NPRA"). The latest revisions to the NPRA are found in Senate Bill No. S07913B (the...more
New requirement for organizations intending to operate under Section 501(c)(4): Submit Form 8976 - New legislation enacted at the end of 2015 added section 506 to the Internal Revenue Code. Section 506 requires an...more
On June 16, 2016, the IRS announced that it will be making Form 990s available in machine-readable format through Amazon Web Services. While this information has always been available to the public, it was previously only...more
Some Form 990-N Electronic Filing System (e-Postcard) users may see error messages - The Form 990-N online filing system moved from Urban Institute to IRS.gov in February. While the new system has been successful, a...more
We live in an era of increasingly prevalent cybercrime, and nonprofits are in the crosshairs. Harvard University, Penn State University and two BlueCross BlueShield entities are just a few nonprofit organizations that...more
Signed into law in 2013, the New York Non-Profit Revitalization Act is designed to reform the statutory requirements for governance of nonprofit organizations (both not-for-profit corporations and wholly charitable trusts),...more
The California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 currently exempts from qualification any security of an issuer (1) organized exclusively for educational, benevolent, fraternal, religious, charitable, social, or reformatory...more
Governor Jerry Brown has now signed into law Senate Bill 81, which included language amending the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 (the "Act") to permit "independent institutions of higher education"...more
April 15th is fast approaching. This is the time of year when many of our clients ask us how to properly document charitable contributions. In several recent cases, donors have been denied all or a portion of their...more
In the recent decision in Matter of Greater Jamaica Dev. Corp. v. New York City Tax Commn., 111A.D.3d 937, 975 N.Y.S.2d 749 (2d Dep’t 2013), the Appellate Division, Second Department held that five public parking garages...more
In This Issue: - What You Should Do - Background - Final Regulations - Hospital Facilities and Organizations - Failures to Satisfy the Requirements of Section 501(r) - Community...more
On October 24, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2014-67 (the “Notice”), which provides important guidance and increased flexibility for issuers and conduit borrowers of tax-exempt bonds regarding contracting...more