The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
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Nonprofits: Deciphering the Documents
Included in this tipsheet is the basics of nonprofit reporting, what's in a 990, the difference between a public charity and a foundation, what forms different organizations file, a summary of the new disclosure rules and where to find the state charity offices. Also attached are the different IRS categories of nonprofits, and what kind of registration is required in each state
Tags: foundation; exempts; attorney general; IRS; Internal Revenue Service; Publication 557; unrelated business income tax; Form 990; application for exemption; determination letter
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Nonprofits; Deciphering the Documents
Nonprofits are becoming much more business like and sophisticated. The image of a do-gooder in a cramped office driving a beat up car and making $30K a year is no longer a reality... The OCR obtained thousands of pages of documents from more than 100 nonprofits to detail the exploding market in human body parts and to detail their links to for-profits firms. This tipsheet offers 13 tips and approaches to investigating a tax exempt organization.
Tags: charities; 990s; IRS; Internal Revenue Service; FOIAs; investment portfolios; self dealing; assets; board members; donated body parts
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Tipsheet No: 579
Handout consists of quick and ready references to public records, and to government agencies for Evening Sun reporters and editors. Includes information on the police, courts, local governments, planning and zoning records, housing inspections, and real estate ownership. Handout also looks at how to use public documents to cover state government, federal government, business and industry, the environment, and charities and the Internal Revenue Service.
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The World of Nonprofits
This tipsheet is a composite of all the IRE resources on nonprofits available in 1993, including tipsheets, a listing of IRE stories, nonprofit contacts, articles from Uplink and IRE Journal re: nonprofits, a sample Form 990 and a copy of the Stanford Bookstore series. Attached in PDF format is the table of contents. Order the entire kit or just the pages you need. Chapter 13 of The Investigative Reporter's Handbook is about nonprofits.
Tags: nonprofit; charity; philanthropy; 990; attorney generals; IRS; Internal Revenue Service; charities as businesses; tax-exempt