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How Wall Street DAF Platforms Are Quietly Restricting Nonprofit Funding
According to ProPublica, three major donor-advised fund sponsors—Vanguard Charitable, Fidelity Charitable and Charles Schwab’s…
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Museum of Ice Cream booking: your step-by-step ticket route
The Museum of Ice Cream Miami combines timed admission, dynamic pricing, and an experience that can last less than an hour or…
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NYC Council Discretionary Funding: The Route to Approval
The NYC Council discretionary funding process has two distinct stages that are often treated as one. The first is political…
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NYS sales tax exemption: the road to ST-119 approval
Federal tax-exempt status does not extend to New York State sales tax. An organization holding an IRS 501(c)(3) determination…
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NYC Nonprofit Lobbying: Pre-Registration Checklist
There's a specific moment in the life of almost every advocacy-minded nonprofit when the work you've been doing for years …
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Lobbying limit options for NY nonprofits
A New York nonprofit can lobby. The law does not require charitable organizations to sit quietly while legislators rewrite the…
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NYS Unemployment Insurance: Reimbursable Employer Traps
For a qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the reimbursable employer option under NYS unemployment insurance can replace recurring…
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NYS Charity Registration: Who Is Exempt from Filing?
New York’s charitable solicitation rules do not divide organizations neatly into two groups—those that register and those that do…
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NYC PASSPort Enrollment: Route to Contract Clearance
PASSPort replaced New York City’s paper-based VENDEX system in 2017. It now serves as the city’s digital procurement system for…
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New York Attorney General Lawsuit Exposes Fraudulent Veterans Charity Scheme
According to the Office of the New York State Attorney General, that is precisely what Attorney General Letitia James alleges in…
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NYC 420-a Property Tax Exemption: Prep Checklist
I want to start with a date that should already be on your radar but, in my experience working alongside community-based…
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NYS Certificate of Amendment: Pre-Filing Checklist
When an organization decides it needs to change its purpose clause, expand its geographic scope, or simply modernize its name…
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Fiscal sponsorship models for new NYC nonprofit initiatives
You have an idea. You have a small coalition, a couple of early funders, maybe a Kickstarter track record. You do not have a…
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NYS CHAR500 Filing: A Step-by-Step Compliance Route
For New York nonprofits, the CHAR500 is no longer a paper exercise that can be assembled, signed, and mailed from the executive…
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NYC Nonprofit Lobbying: Compliance Traps to Avoid
Forty-three organizations appeared in 2025 state lobbying records but not in the corresponding New York City registration…
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IRS lobbying tests for NYC charities: H-election vs default
Most New York City charities that lobby do not actually know what the law allows them to lobby about. They think they are…
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NYC PASSPort Registration: Document Prep Checklist
For a New York City nonprofit, PASSPort registration is not a single online form; it is the point where governance records, tax…
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NYS Legislative Advocacy: Pre-Campaign Checklist
A New York nonprofit can cross the lobbying registration threshold without hiring a professional lobbyist, signing a contract…
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Freelance Isn't Free Act: NYC nonprofit compliance rules
For New York City nonprofits, the Freelance Isn’t Free Act is not a regulation that applies only to commercial agencies, media…
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NYC Property Tax Exemption: The 420-a Application Roadmap
A nonprofit can lose an NYC property tax exemption through a missed January 5 renewal, while a first-time applicant has no fixed…
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NYC City Council hearing testimony: nonprofit prep checklist
NYC City Council hearing testimony preparation begins with a distinction that nonprofit teams often discover too late: showing up…
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NYC Indirect Cost Rate: Policy Traps That Drain Budgets
New York City’s default de minimis indirect cost rate is 10%. That number is often treated as a reimbursement floor. It is not…
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Lobbying disclosure: NYC local rules versus federal requirements
Here’s a number that should make every NYC nonprofit CFO twitch: $5,000. That’s the annual threshold that turns a nonprofit into…
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Executive Order 38 compliance: a roadmap for NY nonprofits
New York’s Executive Order 38 compliance limits are no longer operative. The $199,000 ceiling on executive compensation paid with…
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NY charity registration: EPTL vs Article 7-A
Federal tax-exempt status and New York State charity registration are two different machines, and the state's machine runs on two…
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City Council Discretionary Funding: Clearance Pitfalls
NYC City Council discretionary funding clearance is not a single approval. It is a chain of compliance events. A failure at one…
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CHAR500 audit thresholds: a roadmap for NY nonprofits
The dividing line is $1,000,000. A New York charity with gross annual revenue and support above that figure must submit an…
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501(h) election vs 501(c)(4) for NYC advocacy
Pick the wrong corporate vehicle for advocacy work in New York City, and you will learn the difference between a filing error and…
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Lobbying Rules for NYC Nonprofits: Pre-Campaign Checklist
A strong advocacy campaign can unravel long before anyone questions its policy argument. It can unravel when a 501(c)(3) uses its…