Nonprofit Basics: Grant Agreement Best Practices
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Charitable Support for Individuals Affected by a Disaster
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Virginia and West Virginia
REFRESH Steps for Launching a New Charitable Corporation
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in South Dakota and North Dakota
Nonprofit Employer Return-to-Office Mandates: Best Practices and Litigation Risks
REFRESH Nonprofit Tenants and Lease Agreements Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
REFRESH Real Estate Leasing Tips for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Basics: Unrelated Business Income Tax: Debt Financed Income - Part 3
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Michigan and Ohio
Ask a Certified Fraud Examiner Q&A - Part 4
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Florida and Louisiana
Refresh: Setting up a New Charity for Disaster Relief
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Massachusetts and Connecticut
Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and this is episode 131 of EO Radio Show. I'm surprised that in the three years and 130 episodes I've recorded for this show, I haven't yet...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. In the aftermath of the truly horrific 100-year flood event in Texas, as the floodwaters ebb and the long haul of recovery begins, the local and national community is...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and this episode is a "refresh" of episode 37, first released in April 2023. This year, 2025, we've seen the usual strong interest in starting new...more
According to the New York City Comptroller, the City collected approximately $1.13 billion in Real Property Transfer Tax (“RPTT”) in the FY 2024. The Comptroller’s Office has forecast that $1.21 billion of RPTT will be...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and episode 109 is the third in a series of technical episodes describing the basic principles of the tax on unrelated business income generated...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and this is our 16th in the series of "Nonprofit Quick Tip" episodes, focusing on state registration of nonprofit corporations. With the help of...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show—Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and this is the fourth in a series of episodes in which we discuss fraud at nonprofit organizations with the expert insight of Sly Atayee, a...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show - Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. This is the ninth in a series of “Quick Tip” episodes focusing on the details of state registration of nonprofit corporations. In previous episodes, Farella's Cynthia...more
Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and this is episode 60 of EO Radio Show. This week's episode is a refresh of episode 10, first recorded on July 3, 2022. Episode 10 provided a...more
The 2022 Form 990 due date is fast approaching for tax-exempt organizations that are calendar year filers. Exempt organizations with a filing obligation must submit the appropriate version of Form 990 or an extension request...more
International Charity Fraud Awareness Week October 18-22, 2021 - Please join the IRS and other international organizations and regulators by participating in the annual International Charity Fraud Awareness Week (ICFAW),...more
The New York Assembly and Senate recently passed legislation – A.B. 10336-A (Paulin) / S.B. 8699 (Gallivan) (the “Bill”) – that would raise the minimum number of members of a not-for-profit membership corporation to three...more
Since the Great Recession, nonprofits have been receiving less support from budget-constrained governmental agencies and fewer contributions from the private sector. Similarly, many state and other nonprofit universities have...more
On June 16, 2016, the IRS announced that it will be making Form 990s available in machine-readable format through Amazon Web Services. While this information has always been available to the public, it was previously only...more
Signed into law in 2013, the New York Non-Profit Revitalization Act is designed to reform the statutory requirements for governance of nonprofit organizations (both not-for-profit corporations and wholly charitable trusts),...more
In the recent decision in Matter of Greater Jamaica Dev. Corp. v. New York City Tax Commn., 111A.D.3d 937, 975 N.Y.S.2d 749 (2d Dep’t 2013), the Appellate Division, Second Department held that five public parking garages...more
In This Issue: - What You Should Do - Background - Final Regulations - Hospital Facilities and Organizations - Failures to Satisfy the Requirements of Section 501(r) - Community...more
U.S. public charities are blessed, but also challenged, by a relative lack of regulation governing their grants to foreign persons and foreign entities. U.S. public charities are blessed by this lack of regulation...more
In what is characterized as a “Revitalization Act,” and which certainly is a modernization, the New York State legislature has passed and placed before Governor Andrew Cuomo changes to the Not-for-Profit (“NFP”) Corporation...more
In late June, the New York state legislature passed legislation designed to reform the statutory requirements for governance of nonprofit organizations – both not-for-profit corporations and wholly charitable trusts. It also...more
Senate Finance Committee issues tax reform paper setting forth challenges, goals, and possible measures affecting tax-exempt organizations and charitable giving....more