There is critical activity right now in the U.S. House of Representatives on the GOP’s major tax bill. If it passes Congress, it will be the culmination of a long-held wish list to (1) extend the deep tax cuts enacted
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The For Purpose Law Group Blog, published by For Purpose Law Group, focuses on legal issues affecting nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. It covers topics such as nonprofit startup and tax-exempt status, governance and compliance, tax reporting, IRS audits, charitable solicitation regulations, philanthropic planning, nonprofit employment law, and accounting. The blog also addresses current challenges like nonprofit security grants, charity fraud awareness, restricted gifts management, and responses to governmental executive orders impacting the charitable sector. It provides guidance tailored to various nonprofit roles and organization types, aiming to support legal compliance and strategic decision-making within the nonprofit community.
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Preview of Upcoming Nationwide-Injunction Oral Argument
By the middle of March 2025, President Donald Trump and his administration couldn’t help but notice the steady stream of preliminary-injunction rulings – many nationwide in scope – that were gumming up the progress of more than a few of…
More Thoughts on NCN Litigation and Nationwide Injunctions
“The First One Hundred Days of the current Trump administration have been a 24/7 rollercoaster of developments, large and small,” we wrote in Update on National Council of Nonprofits Litigation (April 26, 2025) FPLG Blog.
“A deliberate effort by the…
Update on National Council of Nonprofits Litigation
The First One Hundred Days of the current Trump administration have been a 24/7 rollercoaster of developments, large and small.
We had been warned during the campaign and transition that the opening weeks would be a reprise-on-steroids of the 2017…
The Charitable Community Steps Up
“History teaches,” wrote the authors of Project 2025, “that a President’s power to implement an agenda is at its apex during the Administration’s opening days. To execute [it] requires a well-conceived, coordinated, unified plan and a trained and committed…
Setting the Record Straight: What the Executive Branch Can and Cannot Do to Nonprofit Organizations
By May Harris
Recent political rhetoric and high-profile threats have sparked anxiety across the nonprofit sector. Many nonprofit leaders have reached out to us with one central question: Can the federal government revoke our tax-exempt status because of our values, programs, or advocacy?…
In Uncertain Times, Nonprofits Must Keep Up With Legal Compliance
This year “…will not go down in the record books as a quiet or uneventful one.” See Another Reminder to Pay Withholding Taxes, FPLG Blog.
“For the philanthropy community, the new political reality poses enormous possible challenges, particularly…
CA Grant Reform: Third Time’s a Charm?
“For years, reform of the state’s grantmaking policies and procedures has been high on the wish list of California’s nonprofit community.”
We wrote optimistically about this important development in Major Legislative Push in CA To Reform Grantmaking (February 27, 2023).…
Nonprofit Security Grant Program: Bipartisan Push to Unfreeze It
These days, there are few issues on which average Americans as well as lawmakers with diverse political affiliations can find common ground. There is a strong consensus, though, that messing around with FEMA is a terrible idea.
Yet here we…
Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program: Is it DOA or Not?
Fixing the bureaucratic mess of the beleaguered Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) had been a major achievement of the Biden Administration. It was welcomed by the nation’s 501(c)(3)s and many of their younger employees who had hoped for loan…