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Shriners Hospitals for Children Investigation Series
Freelance reporter Sandy Frost investigated a tip from Shriner Vernon Hill that there were irregularities in the way the fraternal Shriners organization and the charitable Shriners organizations were handling their money and not complying with Standards For Charitable Accountability.
Tags: Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine AKA Shriners; Standards for Charity Accountability; 2001 Criminal Tax Manual; Hershel Gober; Philanthropic Research, Inc. AKA Guidestar.org; Second Avenue Partners; Mike Slade; Aquantive; Nick Hanauer; Shriners; Masons; Knights Templar; Royal Order of Jesters; National Sojourners Order of Quetzacoatl; Mike Severe, Imperial Officer, Shrine of America; compensation; real estate transactions; excessive benefit transactions; charitable donation fraud; HIPPA; Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; Vernon Hill; Suite101.com; Paul Dolnier; 501c10 non profit fraternal corporation; 501c3 non profit charity; Better Business Bureau; Charity Watch Center; Pennsylvania's Charitable Special Investigation Unit; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; good old boy system; U.S. Senate Committee on Finance; whistleblower retaliation; Charles G. Cumpstone Jr., Potentate Stewart W. Lewis; Charities Review Council of Minnesota; Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; GAAP; Independent Sector; SLAPP: strategic lawsuits against public participation; Cabiri Royal Order of Scotland; International Order of Demolay
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Donated Cars: A License for Abuse?
Many charities receive donations of used cars. The authors expose the possibilities for fraud within the system and highlight both positive and negative aspects. The article also discusses legislation that could affect the system.
Tags: tax breaks; deduction; charity; Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
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Tax Exempt!
U.S. News & World Report investigates various tax-code violations by nonprofits. Many nonprofits look and act like normal companies, the story finds. They operate numbers of successful ventures, make profits, and report exorbitant executive compensations that have caught the eye of the Internal Revenue Service. Many big names, including National Geographic, NASDAQ, and the National Rifle Association, enjoy tax-exempt status along with more than 1.1 million nonprofits. Some of the key findings are: many nonprofits spend huge dollars on lobbying the Congress; hospitals for indigent patients are not much different from hospitals operating for profit; nonprofits usually report their businesses as related to their main activity, consequently to their tax-exempt status.
Tags: Alta Bates Medical Center; National Football League; charities; lobbying; lobbyists; Congress; IRS; 501(c); Internal Revenue Code; associations; deductions
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Charities' Zero-Sum Filing Game
In the "Charities' Zero Sum Filing Game, " Chronicle analyzed International Revenue Service data and found that more than one-fourth of the nearly 5,000 nonprofit organizations that received $500,000 or more in gifts reported spending nothing on fund raising in the 1996 tax year.
Tags: nonprofits; IRS; taxes; tax information; fund-raising; CAR
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Rosa Parks aides plunge charities into legal tangle
At 84, civil rights icon Rosa Parks still signs books, speaks at schools and fights racism. Until a series of Detroit News stories, the public never knew that Parks was being exploited by her closest advisors.