Risk management should be among the top strategic initiatives of every nonprofit board of directors. Establishing effective policies and procedures will help, as will requiring separation of duties and limiting conflict of interest. But, what if your nonprofit owns real…
Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving that has grown into the world’s biggest giving movement and gets bigger every year. Donors in the United States gave a whopping $2.47 billion to nonprofits on Giving Tuesday in 2020, up…
There are some universal truths when it comes to nonprofits that are not dependent on the size of the organization. This is especially true about money. While yes, the amount of revenue determine which Form 990 the nonprofit is required…
A group exemption affords the opportunity for a nonprofit organization to share the tax-exemption of another 501(c)(3) without having to apply to the IRS for their own status. There’s a lot to it, so let’s take a closer look.
Many nonprofits tend to focus primarily on their federal compliance filings, such as IRS Form 990, and for good reason. All tax-exempt nonprofits must file a version of Form 990 each year. But for organizations based in other states, particularly…
With the New Year comes new responsibilities. Similar to how we all anxiously await for our employers to issue us our W-2s at the beginning of the year to get our taxes and out of the way (and hopefully not…
Private foundations are a unique class of 501(c)(3) organization…so unique, in fact, that they have their own exclusive version of IRS Form 990, called Form 990-PF. In this post, our 5th in this series, we’re going to examine just what…
This article is the third in our series that explores the various versions of IRS Form 990. Form 990-EZ is annual information return filed by small-medium sized public charities and certain other nonprofits, at least as measured by gross revenue.
As we established in our Form 990 overview post, there are 5 versions of IRS Form 990, one or more of which is required to be filed annually by every 501(c) organization. Form 990-N, the shortest version and the one required…
Wouldn’t it be great if your nonprofit never had to think about the IRS again, once they approved your 501(c)(3) status, that is? Well, as you can imagine, that simply isn’t the case. Nor should it be, truthfully. As it is, the…