NonProfit Pro

Court Orders IRS to Release Computer-Readable Charity Tax Forms
January 30, 2015

A federal judge handed open-records activist Carl Malamud a victory in his battle to get the Internal Revenue Service to release Form 990 tax returns in a format that can be read by computers, thus making information about nonprofit operations far more accessible. U.S. District Judge William Orrick rejected the IRS's argument that producing the documents requested by Malamud's group, Public.Resource.Org, would create a significant burden on an overstretched agency.

Commercial Fundraiser Used Lakewood Cop Killings to Solicit Donations
January 29, 2015

A Washington police charity that funneled most of its donations to a Utah marketing firm has agreed to either change its fundraising or warn donors their money is going to telemarketers. All told, the Utah marketing firm Corporations for Character made $1.5 million collecting donations for the Washington Fraternal Order of Police. The police organization — which runs a memorial fund for Washington officers killed in the line of duty — received just $450,000.