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What is the Donor Substantiation Requirement for Nonprofit Organizations?

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

Donations are often considered the lifeblood for nonprofit organizations. Because donations are usually tax deductible for the donor, it’s not uncommon for people considering making…

Do Nonprofits Need to File Annual Reports in Arizona?

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

In Arizona, all corporations—including nonprofit corporations—are required to file Articles of Incorporation with the Arizona Corporation Commission to form the entity. But are nonprofit organizations…

Can Two Nonprofits Merge Together in Arizona?

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

The concept of a merger is familiar in the for-profit sector: two corporations join together to become one corporation. The driver in this case is,…

Can a Nonprofit Organization Accept Donations Prior to Exemption?

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

It’s fairly common for a nonprofit organization to want to seek funding prior to applying for tax exemption. After all, the most logical order of…

Five Steps Every Church or Ministry Should Take to Protect Their Employment Decisions From Government Intrusion

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

President Ronald Reagan’s director of personnel is quoted as saying, “Personnel is policy.” It’s a pithy way of describing the truism that the people who…

How Churches Can Handle Personal Injury Risks

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

In focusing on the spiritual side of life, churches can, at times, lose sight of the more physical issues that can arise at church. And…

Mitigating the Risk of Church Property Disputes

How to Handle Church Property Issues

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

The particular manners in which church property disputes arise are as numerous as the lilies of the field. But those that are peculiar to churches…

Must You Report Donors on Schedule B of Form 990?

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

For some time, Internal Revenue Service Form 990, “Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax” legally required every tax-exempt organization—alongside nonexempt charitable trusts and section…

Arizona Property Tax Exemption For Churches and Religious Nonprofits: How Does My Organization Get It and How Do We Keep It?

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

The Arizona Constitution permits taxation of all real estate, improvements to real estate, and, for that matter, all personal property—with certain exemptions determined both within…

Managing Conflicts of Interest in Nonprofit Governance

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

Conflicts of interest arise almost organically in the course of organizational operations. They’re quite normal, and are not, in and of themselves, illegal. But it…

Who’s in Charge Here?: Nonprofit Boards and Executive Committees

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

It’s not uncommon for the board of a nonprofit to empower an executive committee to act on the board’s behalf during times when the board…

Fiduciary Duties and Oversight in Nonprofit Governance

Erik Stanley

Church & Nonprofit

Our attorneys here at Provident Law field quite a few questions regarding the nature of nonprofit governance. Among the higher-order of these questions are issues…