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Not-for-Profit

Benesch’s Not-for-Profit Team assists not-for-profit and tax-exempt clients in a broad array of matters, ranging from filing for nonprofit status and preparing federal and state tax exemption applications to training in not-for-profit regulatory compliance. Our not-for-profit attorneys are committed to protecting our clients’ assets so that they can continue to drive the missions and goals of their organizations.

Not-for-profit attorneys experienced in dispute resolution, taxation, public affairs and nonprofit regulatory compliance

Benesch’s Not-for-Profit Team counsels and represents a wide range of not-for-profit organizations. These organizations contend with a variety of obstacles, from managing not-for-profit regulatory compliance issues to establishing fundraising foundations, navigating IRS and state attorney general oversight and securing public funding sources.

The challenges in the not-for-profit world are plentiful, and our attorneys have the experience to tackle them head on. Benesch’s not-for-profit attorneys are actively involved in lobbying for not-for-profit organizations. In the past, our members have represented the interests of the Ohio Alliance of YMCA’s in a wide range of matters from child care to camping and the Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations (OANO) and its member organizations in negotiations over public funds contracting and accountability legislation.

In addition, Benesch’s attorneys are regularly involved in legal not-for-profit issues regarding:

• State property tax exemptions
• Licensure and certification
• Compliance with Medicare and Medicaid
• Reimbursement and compliance matters
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Dissolutions
• Restructuring and reorganizations
• Tax exempt and conventional financing
• Development and construction

Highly ranked in not-for-profit law and charities law

Benesch received a first-tier ranking in Columbus, OH, in the area of not-for-profit/charities law by the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, a referral guide of U.S. attorneys that is universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the U.S.

Experience

  • Serve on outside counsel team representing nonprofit foundation created to distribute Ohio’s opioid settlement dollars.
Key Contacts
  • Martha J. Sweterlitsch
    Government Relations
    Columbus

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Articles and Presentations
June 7, 2022
Lobbying by Tax Exempt Organizations – Part 2
February 4, 2022
Lobbying by Tax Exempt Organizations – Part 1
December 3, 2020
Ohio Creates New For-Profit Benefit Corporation

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News
November 5, 2020
Benesch Receives 56 National and Metropolitan Rankings for 2021 U.S. News - Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”
November 16, 2015
Martha Sweterlitsch quoted in the Columbus Dispatch | "New rules troubling advocates."
November 3, 2015
Benesch is again named "Law Firm of the Year" in Transportation Law and receives 59 National and Metropolitan Rankings by U.S. News - Best Lawyers

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