Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. Each year, the IRS publishes a Dirty Dozen list of fraud schemes targeting unsuspecting taxpayers. Seven of the items on the IRS's 2026 list are of particular interest to nonprofit organizations, their donors, and their professional advisors. In this episode of EO Radio Show, episode 150, I provide a quick highlight of these schemes. A link to the IRS's full Dirty Dozen list is in the show notes.

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Dirty Dozen tax scams for 2026: IRS reminds taxpayers to watch out for dangerous threats | Internal Revenue Service

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Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and episode 149 of EO Radio Show provides a checklist for developing or improving the diligence checklist for grantmaking charities.

Some grantmakers do little more than check the IRS database to confirm that the grantee is recognized as a public charity. Others require reams of information from the grantees. What is the best approach? Well, as we lawyers always like to say, it depends. What I'm trying to do in this episode is give you a practical, staff-level checklist of the core due diligence items grantors should cover when evaluating a charitable organization for a grant. This episode is structured for a U.S.-based grantor, whether it's a public charity or a private foundation, and I flag enhancements for foreign or higher-risk grants.

Show Notes:

Tax Exempt Organization Search | Internal Revenue Service

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Title and Links to Episodes

EO Radio Show #99: Nonprofit Basics: International Grantmaking - Part 1 Overview and Antiterrorism Rules

EO Radio Show #101: Nonprofit Basics: International Grantmaking – Part 2 Income Tax Withholding Rules

EO Radio Show #102: Nonprofit Basics: International Grantmaking Part 3 -Special Rules for Private Foundations

EO Radio Show #131: Nonprofit Basics: Grant Agreement Best Practices

EO Radio Show #132: Nonprofit Basics: Grant Agreements—Matching Grants, IP, Recoverable Grants & More

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Welcome to EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource. I'm Cynthia Rowland, and this is episode 148 of EO Radio Show. Here we are, solidly into the 2026 election year, and that means private foundations should refresh their understanding of election‑year issues for organizations that want to remain exempt under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3), and avoid the onerous private‑foundation excise taxes that come into play if a private foundation uses its funds for impermissible legislative lobbying.

This week's episode is a refresh of the show's episode 8, originally released in 2022. For more information on related election‑year issues, you may want to go back to episode 146 for the commentary on candidate campaign intervention, or episode 147 if your interest is in what public charities may do in the lobbying arena. Episode 147 refreshed an earlier episode that focused on allowable educational and advocacy activities for public charities, including a discussion of the definition of lobbying and the two different rules that apply to public charities.

Finally, be sure to check out the show notes for resources from the IRS on these topics, and the Farella Braun + Martel YouTube channel for the complete EO Radio Show playlist.

Show Notes:

Farella Webinar: Election Year Issues for Private Foundations and Public Charities

Bolder Advocacy Podcast: https://bolderadvocacy.org/podcast/

IRS Chart: Common Tax Law Restrictions on Activities of Exempt Organizations

IRS Form 5768 for 501(h) election: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f5768.pdf

National Council of Nonprofits: Taking the 501(h) Election: https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/taking-the-501h-election

Treasury Regulations on Exempt Purpose Expenditures: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/56.4911-4

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