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We are a 501(c)(3) organization and while we are clear that we cannot support or oppose candidates we want to weigh in on the President’s nominee for a deputy secretary in the Treasury Department. Can we do this as a 501(c)(3) organization?
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Can churches, synagogues, and mosques lobby?
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A very critical measure will appear on our state ballot this November. Can our 501(c)(3) work to defeat this ballot measure?
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Can a 501(c)(3) organization invite a sitting legislator, who also happens to be running for reelection, to a dinner/event during an election year?
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Can our 501(c)(3) ask candidates for public office to deliver on a specific initiative if elected?
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Can a 501(c)(3) combine committees with a (c)(4)? Can the (c)3 and (c)4 conduct committee meetings together?
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My 501(c)(3) works in a coalition of other 501(c)(3)s. We are planning a campaign to urge the public to reauthorize a ballot measure that is about to sunset. Does it count as lobbying if we want to start polling the public on where they stand on this issue?
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Can a 501(c)(3) organization have an affiliated PAC organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code? If not, can 501(c)(4) organizations have affiliated PACs?
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I know that the primary purpose of a 501(c)(4) organization cannot be to engage in partisan election activity. How does the IRS determine the primary purpose?
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One of our projects has been to identify whether or not different recommendations coming out of our organization could be implemented via executive authority by the president or would need to be legislatively implemented by Congress. We would like to take this a step further and actually provide draft executive orders and legislation so as to allow the pressing issue we work on to be addressed as quickly as possible in the first 100 days of the next president’s term. As a 501(c)(3), are we allowed to draft legislation or executive orders?
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I am in charge of a 501(c)(3) and a 501(c)(4). We are preparing a letter to the Governor regarding a plan of early release from parole for "non violent" parolees. We are writing the letter on behalf of the 501(c)(4). Can the 501(c)(3) organizations that work with us in our coalition also sign on to this letter?
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Can a 501(c)(3) public charity distribute educational materials at a Democratic party event?
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Can churches, synagogues, and mosques lobby?
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Our non-profit is sponsoring state legislation and we also publish a quarterly newsletter. In that newsletter we discuss our plans for this legislation, however we do not devote the entire newsletter to this topic. If we encourage our members to support our legislation by contacting their lawmakers in such an article, does that mean the entire cost of producing the newsletter (printing and postage) must be considered as a lobbying expense?
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I’ve heard that the IRS does not allow nonprofits to provide links from their 501(c)(3) websites to websites that endorse candidates. Is this true?
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Can we as an organization still solicit tax-deductible donations if we choose to lobby under the 501(h) expenditure test?
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Q: We are a 501(c)(3) organization and while we are clear that we cannot support or oppose candidates we want to weigh in on our Governor’s nominee for state Human Rights Commissioner. Can we do this as a 501(c)(3) organization?
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Q: My organization sometimes lobbies in the United States Congress, but we have never done enough to require us to register with the Congress as lobbyists. We are considering electing to use the 501(h) expenditure test to measure our lobbying limit. Will electing to use 501(h) mean that we will also have to register as lobbyists?
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Q: Can a 501(c)(3) organization make a unrestricted grant to an affiliated 501(c)(4) organization?
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Q: Can a 501(c)(3) organization invite a sitting legislator, who also happens to be running for reelection, to a dinner/event during an election year?
