PRACTICE AREAS
Legal Services for Nonprofit and Tax-exempt Organizations
Caritas Law Group regularly serves as outside general counsel to tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations. We also represent donors with respect to significant gifts, and socially responsible companies with respect to cause-marketing arrangements and corporate giving strategies.
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FEATURED BLOG POSTS
- The Voldemort Protocol Problem
Anonymity in philanthropy is not unusual. Many donors prefer privacy. Sometimes it is humility. Sometimes it is security. Sometimes it is simply temperament. But sometimes anonymity is not about the donor at all. When Anonymous Gifts Signal a Governance Failure The reporting surrounding MIT’s acceptance of funds from Jeffrey Epstein illustrates a different governance problem.
- The Pledge Is Not the Gift: What Foundation Boards Should Learn from Harvard and MIT
Foundation boards like to celebrate large pledges. They validate strategy. They signal momentum. They make annual reports look good. But the Jeffrey Epstein university scandals, documented by MIT’s own independent report and covered extensively by TIME, AP News, and others, demonstrate something boards often forget: The pledge itself can be the product. When the promise becomes leverage MIT publicly
- When Funding Disappears or the Model Breaks: Converting to 501(c)(3) status
Recent nonprofit news highlights a trend that many lawyers are seeing more frequently in practice. Programs lose government funding. Mission-driven for-profit ventures struggle to sustain themselves financially. In response, organizations begin to ask whether operating as a tax-exempt charity might be a better fit for their work. Examples in the news include government-adjacent programs relaunching