fiscal sponsorship

Philanthropy
Updated List of Various Ideas to Reform Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector
During the past several years, The Giving Review has tried to conscientiously track contemplated or proposed ideas to reform philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Again acknowledging its partiality and anticipating…
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 19, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on November 22, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on August 9, 2024

Organization Trends
Left-Wing ‘Dark Money’ Powerhouse Funded Group Linked to Holocaust Museum Protestors
The Tides Foundation, a left-wing organization known for its “dark money,” has provided funding to Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), an anti-Israel group formed in November. DAG had planned to launch…
by Ryan Mauro on December 28, 2023

Philanthropy
Ways and Means’ Subcommittee Considers Changes in Law on Tax-Exemption, Foreign Funding, and Politics
During the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing earlier today about the “Growth of the Tax-Exempt Sector and the Impact on the American…
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 15, 2023

Special Report
Understanding and Examining the Political Activities of Tax-Exempt Organizations
Response from Capital Research Center to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means  Request for Information on…
by Scott Walter on September 4, 2023

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Improving Transparency
Speaking of the IRS—in 2012, the IRS’s own Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) published a report that recommended changes to the rules governing fiscal sponsorship. The…
by Neil Maghami on August 22, 2023

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Obscuring Finances?
To illustrate some potentially problematic applications of the fiscal sponsorship concept, this report will look at some specific nonprofit organizations that are acting as sponsors on a scale that is…
by Neil Maghami on August 22, 2023

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Incubation and the Tides Center
The above definitions emphasize fiscal sponsorship as a grassroots, community-level, activity. A different view of the concept comes into focus if one takes a top-down view of it, particularly considering…
by Neil Maghami on August 22, 2023

Organization Trends
Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: A Way to Start Nonprofits
In his celebrated book Democracy in America (1848), the French observer of the mid-19th century United States, Alexis de Tocqueville, praises Americans' aptitude for what he calls “the art of joining” with…
by Neil Maghami on August 22, 2023