Donors often ask what happens if a charity takes a restricted gift and then uses it for something else. The charity is bound by the restriction, but the harder question is who can make it comply. In most states that has traditionally been the attorney general, not the donor. Whether a donor can sue depends on the state, and neither Arizona nor Washington has a statute that says so directly. This post covers what donors and charities can rely on in our two states.

We wrote recently about the historical pattern of governments using tax audits, funding cuts, and stigmatizing labels against nonprofits they disfavor. That post was framed as a general pattern worth watching. This one is about a specific, current allegation that the IRS is targeting specific nonprofits for examination that fits squarely inside it. What Was

One of the questions we hear most often from small nonprofits goes something like this, “our office manager has volunteered four days a week for two years, she loves the organization, and she has never asked to be paid. Is that a problem?” The short answer is that it can be. In this post we