When an auditor, a court, or an enforcement agency asks whether your board was paying attention, the answer they care about is the one you
One of the questions we hear most often from nonprofits that receive federal funds right now is whether OMB’s proposed rewrite of the grant rules
Donors often ask what happens if a charity takes a restricted gift and then uses it for something else. The charity is bound by the restriction, but the harder question is who can make it comply. In most states that has traditionally been the attorney general, not the donor. Whether a donor can sue depends on the state, and neither Arizona nor Washington has a statute that says so directly. This post covers what donors and charities can rely on in our two states.
We wrote recently about the historical pattern of governments using tax audits, funding cuts, and stigmatizing labels against nonprofits they disfavor. That post was framed
One of the questions we hear most often from small nonprofits goes something like this, “our office manager has volunteered four days a week for
Back in April, we wrote about the IRS lifting its six-year moratorium on new group exemption applications. That post covered the basics. Revenue Procedure 2026-8 has now been finalized, and
We get some version of this question from almost every foundation and nonprofit board we work with, “[C]an we weigh in on a bill moving
This is the first year-end giving season under the charitable deduction changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and the questions we are getting
On September 4, 2026, the IRS published a proposed regulation, REG-119986-25, that would tighten the racial nondiscrimination requirement private schools have operated under for over
Political scientists who study what’s often called “closing civic space” have documented a remarkably consistent set of tools used across very different regimes. Russia’s 2012 “foreign agents” law required NGOs receiving foreign funding and engaging in loosely defined “political activity” to register under that label, submit to intensive audits, and carry the designation on all public materials; Human Rights Watch has tracked similar foreign agent laws spreading to dozens of other countries since, describing them as a standard item in the authoritarian playbook. Hungary’s 2017 “Lex NGO” imposed similar transparency and registration burdens targeted at organizations critical of the government, while allowing ideologically aligned groups to operate without the same scrutiny. Egypt’s 2017 NGO law restricted foreign funding and political advocacy outright, backed by criminal penalties. Between 2014 and 2016 alone, researchers tracked more than sixty countries imposing new restrictions on civil society funding and assembly.
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