Nonprofit & Charitable Organizations

Archer has earned a reputation for its dedication serving the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, supporting work that has a positive impact on people, communities, and the environment. We offer a special sensitivity to the nature of nonprofit activities, and a commitment to provide legal services of the highest quality on a cost-efficient basis. While the missions and budgets of our clients may vary, the legal principles affecting their governance and operations are often the same. Our firm’s philosophy is to provide the trustee of a nonprofit with the maximum flexibility in making policy decisions.

We are deeply gratified by our clients’ contributions to a better world, and proud to provide them with legal services to support those contributions. We counsel regularly on business, tax, tax-exempt finance and planned giving, and other charitable giving law, advising on the status of the law, the alternatives available, and the risks involved.

To assure that our nonprofit clients reap all the benefits of being served by a full-service law firm, our multidisciplinary team is comprised of experienced attorneys from several of our other practice groups, including business counseling, health care, education, tax and employee benefits, estates and trusts, labor and employment, land use and environmental permitting and compliance, real estate, computer and high technology, and general litigation.

We provide assistance in various areas, including:

• Formation and tax-exempt status
• Board governance and training
• Compliance and best practices
• Business operations, transactions, and contracts
• Fundraising and charitable solicitation registration
• Grantmaking
• Joint ventures, co-ventures, and other commercial relationships
• Unrelated business income tax
• Mergers, affiliations, dissolutions, and other restructures
• Lobbying and political activities
• IRS Audits and Controversies
• Impact Investing