Uncle Sam may receive charitable gifts, but that doesn’t give presidents free rein on how to spend those funds.
- Senior Scholar in Residence at the Lowell Milken Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Law, University of California, Los Angeles
Uncle Sam may receive charitable gifts, but that doesn’t give presidents free rein on how to spend those funds.
Most institutions of higher education have more freedom to spend from their endowments than they may realize.
When for-profit companies are spun out of nonprofits, there is no easy way out of the legal consequences.
Threats from disappointed donors over the language used during campus protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict have become angrier and more public than in the past.
It’s unclear whether Women for America First, the ‘social welfare group’ that obtained a permit for the pro-Trump rally that let to a siege on the Capitol, could be held liable.
Congress can fix this by updating the tax code.
Donations from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to Charities Hosting Events at Mar-a-Lago violate the spirit but not the letter of federal tax law.
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