How Many Groups Applied for Nonprofit Status, 2009 to 2012

by Sarah Frostenson and Emma Carew Grovum

May 20, 2013 | Read Time: 0 minutes

In 2010, when the Internal Revenue Service began to give extra scrutiny to groups with certain words in their names, like “Tea Party” and “Patriot,” the number of organizations applying for 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) status hadn’t yet started to rise.

Applications and approvals for charities

Applications and approvals for social-welfare groups

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Sarah Frostenson

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Sarah Frostenson was the lead analyst for four annual projects at The Chronicle of Higher Education, including: Corporate Giving, Foundations, Endowments and Donor-Advised Funds. She built the databases powering many of The Chronicle’s interactives. Her reporting included: data trends in the nonprofit sector, donor-advised funds as vehicles of charitable wealth, transparency of foundations and digitization of nonprofit data.

Emma Carew Grovum

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