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Considered the Impact of the New Form 990 on your Not-for-Profit’s...
Sometimes more is simply more. Not better, simply more. In an effort to enhance transparency and expand disclosure to the general public, the IRS has significantly increased the amount of information...
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Know the New Rules for Managing Your Charity’s Charitable Assets?
It’s been more than 35 years since Washington State, along with 47 other states, enacted the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act (UMIFA). The Act provided a uniform set of rules to guide...
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SPOTLIGHT | Services for Not-for-Profit Organizations
It’s all about passion, that relentless drive to make a difference in your community, your world. And it’s about the business of doing good. Bader Martin can help with the financial and advisory...
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Doing All You Can to Prevent Fraud in Your Business or Not-for-Profit...
The statistics are sobering. Imagine simply throwing away seven percent of your organization’s annual revenue. According to a recent study conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners,...
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Managing Your Charity’s Endowments Responsibly?
By 2008, Harvard University had amassed an incredible $37 billion in endowments, accounting for nearly a third of its operating revenue. A year later, the value of those endowments had fallen by nearly...
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Filed Your 990 Yet?
A not-for-profit or other exempt organization must file an annual return with the IRS each year, using Form 990, Form 990-EZ, Form 990-PF or Form 990-N. For organizations with calendar year-ends, the...
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Missed the 990-N or 990-EZ Filing Deadline for Your Not-for-Profit Organization?
325,000 not-for-profit organizations may lose their tax-exemptions according to a recent list compiled by the IRS. Under new rules passed as part of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, a not-for-profit...
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Reminder | Extended Form 990-N and 990-EZ Deadline Approaches
October 15 is the extended filing deadline for certain small charities that are required to file Form 990-N or Form 990-EZ. Under new rules passed as part of the Pension Protection Act, a...
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Hiring a Veteran? Expanded Federal Tax Credit Available for Businesses and...
We can do better for our veterans. The unemployment rate for our nation’s veterans dropped over the last year, along with the overall unemployment rate. Yet the rate for veterans from Iran and...
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Hiring a Qualified Veteran? IRS Extends Key Deadline for the Work Opportunity...
For some time, for-profit business and not-for-profit organizations that hire qualified veterans and certain members of other targeted groups have been eligible for a federal Work Opportunity Tax...
View ArticleCompensation Conforming to Not-for-Profit Best Practices?
The stakes can be enormous. To attract highly qualified executives, employees, and board members, not-for-profit organizations must offer competitive compensation packages. But take it too far, and you...
View ArticleIs Your Not-for-Profit Ready for the New Form 990?
Wait long enough and all things become new again. Recently, the Internal Revenue Service released its revised Form 990, Return for Organizations Exempt From Income Tax. Last revised in 1979, Form 990...
View ArticleThought About the Impact of the New IRS Form 990 on Your Not-for-Profit?
Taking a cue from Mark Twain (The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.), the IRS released the first major change to Form 990 in nearly thirty years―while the final instructions were...
View ArticleNeed to Update Your Not-for-Profit’s Policies in Advance of the New IRS Form...
Let’s be clear: Not-for-profit governance practices are not mandated by tax law. In fact, according to Steven T. Miller, the IRS’ Commissioner for Tax Exempt and Government Entities, “I suspect some...
View ArticleBader Martin Wins Food Frenzy 2013, Accounting Firm Category
We raised more money for our community’s hungry children and volunteered more hours than any other accounting firm! Every July, Seattle’s accounting firms, law firms, architectural and engineering...
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