Thousands of nonprofits misreport fundraising costs
nonprofit-main | By: THOMAS HARGROVE and WAQAS NAEEM |
Thousands of nonprofit organizations in the United States misreport how they solicit billions of dollars in donations, making it impossible for Americans to know how their gifts are used. Forty-one pe...
Without state oversight, charities disclose scant fundraising costs
nonprofit-states | By: THOMAS HARGROVE and WAQAS NAEEM |
Nonprofit organizations are much more likely to report fundraising costs in states that carefully monitor how charities raise money. But in states that perform little oversight, charitable groups are ...
Government rarely prosecutes nonprofits for false information
nonprofit-cases | By: THOMAS HARGROVE |
The federal government rarely prosecutes nonprofit groups for filing false information on their annual reports to the Internal Revenue Service, even though all such reports are made under threat of pe...
Nonprofit groups are growing source of jobs
nonprofit-econ | By: WAQAS NAEEM |
With nearly 1.5 million nonprofit organizations across the nation, the sector has become an important part of the U.S. economy. Nonprofits accounted for 9 percent of all wages and salaries in 2009, ac...
Harvard nonprofit leads nation in most fundraising at no cost
nonprofit-harvard | By: WAQAS NAEEM |
Harvard University, long at the pinnacle of U.S. college institutions, also has the distinction of running a nonprofit that leads the nation in raising the most money without spending a dime on public...
State-by-state list of major nonprofits with no fundraising costs
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The following list, by state, shows how many major nonprofit groups collected $1 million or more on contributions according to their latest report to the Internal Revenue Service; how many reported "z...
State-by-state look at oversight of nonprofits
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The following chart shows whether each state requires charities to register; whether states issue "Do Not Give" warnings about specific nonprofit groups; and whether professional fundraisers are requi...
Editorial: Americans deserve fund-raising facts from nonprofits
ednonprofit | By: An editorial / Dale McFeatters |
Americans are famously generous charitable givers. According to a new Scripps Howard News Service study of the most recent reports to the Internal Revenue Service, 37,987 charities and nonprofits rais...