The nonprofit and exempt organization law attorneys at Gammon & Grange represent a wide variety of nonprofit organizations throughout the country, including charities, churches and other religious ministries, associations, and universities. Our nonprofit clients range in scope from small start-up organizations and local churches to nationally-known charities and multi-national NGOs.

We are privileged to serve a diversity of organizations with missions that impact people in local communities and the world, including:

• International NGOs providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to needy persons around the world
• Organizations promoting youth development and educational progress
• Advocacy organizations promoting the welfare of children, families, and married couples
• Organizations fighting sex-trafficking and child slavery
• Groups helping women in crisis pregnancy
• Shelters for homeless individuals
• Ministries serving prisoners and their children

Through our nonprofit legal expertise, we help to improve the best practices and expand the capacities of such organizations so they can better fulfill their missions.

Our lawyers are pioneers in the area of tax exempt law, and frequently lecture and write on a wide variety of legal issues affecting tax-exempt organizations. We advise our nonprofit clients on numerous issues including:

• Incorporation
• Tax-exemption applications
• Legal audits
• Charitable solicitation registration
• State and local tax matters
• Charitable gifts and fundraising
• unrelated business income tax (UBIT)
• Board governance
• Employment
• Dispute resolution
• First Amendment and constitutional issues
• Local and international affiliation
• For-profit subsidiaries
• Investment and endowment policies
• Lobbying and political activity
• Private benefit and intermediate sanctions
• Reasonable Compensation

Our nonprofit law attorneys are leaders in the areas of preventive law, legal audits, and diagnostic tools for nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. Our Legal Audit Questionnaire™ and other preventive legal services have helped numerous CEO's and board management teams diagnose and reduce legal risks in all areas of their operation and organization.

As part of our mission to provide preventive legal services, Gammon & Grange produces the popular Nonprofit Alert^®, a free bi-monthly legal newsletter alerting nonprofit leaders to important legal developments in the nonprofit world.

Our nonprofit and exempt organization law attorneys frequently speak at national nonprofit meetings and many are serving, or have served, on the boards of various charities and professional organizations. They have taught courses on nonprofit and business law, and have authored numerous publications on nonprofit issues.