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:
Search results for "tax-exempt organizations" ...
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Forming and Operating a Tax-Exempt Journalism Organization
Hermes extensively lays out what it means to be a tax-exempt journalism organization and the history behind it and provides legal resources for anyone interested in starting their own nonprofit center.
Tags: nonprofits; tax-exempt; 990; 501(c)(3)
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Paper and Databse Trails
Hall discusses the information that an investigative reporter can gather from various data sources including documents and databases. The tipsheet provides a list of documents/records and what sort of information you can anticipate finding with each given example
Tags: documents; FOI; databases; audits; payroll documents; police reports; correspondence; reports; annual budgets; overtime; purchasing records; contracts; campaign finance reports; test scores; tax-exempt organizations; inspection reports
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The Best Search Tools for Digging Into Nonprofits
This tipsheet offers various sources that could aid journalists in investigating nonprofit organizations. Lorek specifically mentions Guidestar, the Better Business Bureau and several other websites. The tipsheet includes information about gaining access to the websites, as well as what journalists might expect to find at each one. She also explains some of the technical information about nonprofits, such as how they file for taxes.
Tags: nonprofit; 990; Guidestar; Better Business Bureau; National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy; charity; Foundation Center; IRS; tax exempt
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A Whole New Game
Hoholik gives some tips on reporting on high school athletic associations as nonprofit organizations. The handout includes useful web addresses.
Tags: tax-exempt status; tournaments; spreadsheets; 990 form; Ohio
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Where on the Web?
Listed here are Web sites for finding out information about particular tax exempt organizations, the nonprofit sector, data, and the IRS rules and searches.
Tags: tax exempt; charity; not-for-profit; National Center for Charitable Statistics; Guidestar; philanthropy; charity
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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 for covering tax exemp organizations
This tipsheet provides information about covering nonprofit oranizations, such as where to find information for particular organizations as compared to exempt organizations as a sector of the economy. It also outlines the disclosure procedures, etc.
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Tips for Tracing Tax Exempts
This tip sheet lists ways to track the use of tax-exempt organizations to finance political activities.
Tags: 990 form; tax-exempt organizations; nonprofit organizations; campaign finance
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Armstrong uses IRE's 990 to explain the most telling document a tax- exempt organization must complete annually. Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-65.