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Understanding Private Foundations

20Apr2021
Hosting Organization: 
Nonprofit Issues®
When: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
Where: 
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If you are a donor, a grant-seeker, a philanthropic manager, or a professional adviser to any of them, you need to know the rules that distinguish various philanthropic structures.

This webinar will focus on private foundations and their special requirements, but will compare private foundations with donor advised funds, supporting organizations, and other forms of charitable activity.

With private foundations, we will focus on the 1.39% excise tax on investment income, self-dealing (compared to excess benefits), the minimum distribution requirement, excess business holdings, jeopardy investments and socially responsible investments, and taxable expenditures, including the limitations on lobbying. We will explain why many “conversion foundations” formed from the sale of charitable hospitals elected to become community foundations to avoid the limitations on lobbying.

The discussion will include:

  • the relevant tax information returns and what one can learn from their disclosures
  • termination of a private foundation or a donor advised fund
  • the private foundation rules not only from the perspective of private foundation managers seeking to comply, but also from the perspective of grant seekers seeking to fit their projects within the limitations of a private foundation’s program
  • the rise in nonprofit journalism, the use of limited liability companies, the Chan-Zuckerberg initiative, use of (c)(4) social welfare organizations, and how the Paul Newman Foundation resolved its excess benefit holdings issue in a way that might help other private foundations.

Don Kramer, Esq., Editor of Nonprofit Issues will present. Tish Mogan, Standards for Excellence Director, from the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations will serve as moderator. This program is offered in partnership with PANO, Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations.

Pennsylvania CLE & CPE
This program is approved to provide continuing legal and continuing professional education credits for lawyers and accountants in Pennsylvania.

How to Register/RSVP: 

Special discount pricing is available for multiple participants. Registrants who pay one full-price registration can add up to 5 people for the flat rate of $20 for the group. To add additional attendees, please call to make arrangements (1-888-NP-Issue).

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