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BakerHostetler has been at the vanguard of nonprofit law for decades, providing comprehensive advice to help mission-driven organizations achieve their ambitions.


  • Deliver ongoing advice and services to health care systems and providers regarding various issues, including the structure of joint ventures, compliance with the requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, annual information return reporting and other business and operational issues.
  • Advise various corporations on company-related private foundation issues, including charitable contributions, self-dealing, excess business holdings, and employee assistance programs.
  • Provide ongoing advice to large private foundation engaged in sophisticated grant-making, including program-related investments and loans.
  • Counsel private foundations on international grant-making and public charity equivalency determinations.
  • Assist organizations with conflict of interest policies and procedures to ensure compliance with best practices and excess benefit transaction safe harbor procedures.
  • Assist community foundations and similar organizations with various planned giving matters, including conversion of private foundations to donor-advised funds and supporting organizations.
  • Counsel various tax-exempt entities regarding complex compensation and insider transaction issues.
  • Advise private foundations regarding operation of employee scholarship, disaster relief, and matching gift programs.
  • Provide advice to tax-exempt entities regarding managing and minimizing unrelated business taxable income (UBTI).
  • Counsel private foundations on international grant-making and public charity equivalency determinations.
  • Assist organizations with conflict of interest policies and procedures to ensure compliance with “best practices” and excess benefit transaction safe harbor procedures.
  • Assist community foundations and similar organizations with various planned giving matters, including conversion of private foundations to donor-advised funds and supporting organizations.
  • Counsel various tax-exempt entities regarding complex compensation and “insider” transaction issues.
  • Advise private foundations regarding operation of employee scholarship, disaster relief, and matching gift programs.
  • Provide advice to tax-exempt entities regarding managing and minimizing unrelated business taxable income (UBTI).

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