Nonprofit and tax exempt organizations include individual enterprises, corporations, unincorporated associations, partnerships, foundations and others. Deciding on the proper legal structure of your nonprofit venture is an important first step toward achieving your charitable mission.
We advise our nonprofit clients regarding:
- Best structure for the need
- Articles of incorporation, bylaws, and other governance documents
- Securing, maintaining or reinstating tax exempt status
- Structuring charitable gifts and bequests
- Private inurement and private benefit restrictions
- Governance issues, such as fiduciary duties, conflicts of interest policies, and advice on director and officer liability, responsibility, and insurance
- Unrelated business taxable income issues
- Internal Revenue Service audits
- Forming and using exempt and for-profit subsidiaries
- Excess benefits and intermediate sanctions regulations