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CHAPTER TWELVE Public Charities and Private Foundations

  § 12.1 Federal Tax Law Definition of Private Foundation (a) Private Foundation Defined

  § 12.3 Categories of Public Charities (b) Publicly Supported Charities (c) Supporting Organizations

  § 12.4 Private Foundation Rules (f) Other Provisions

§ 12.1 FEDERAL TAX LAW DEFINITION OF PRIVATE FOUNDATION

(a) Private Foundation Defined

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; Rev. Proc. 2020‐5, 2020‐1 I.R.B. 241, § 7.03.

§ 12.3 CATEGORIES OF PUBLIC CHARITIES

(b) Publicly Supported Charities

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A tax‐exempt charitable organization with more than one unrelated business may aggregate its net income and net losses from all unrelated business activities for purposes of determining whether the organization is publicly supported under these rules.^155.1 That is, the bucketing rule^155.2 does not apply in this context. Nonetheless, organizations have the option of determining public support using their unrelated business taxable income calculated under the bucketing rule or in the aggregate.

p. 304. Insert as second complete paragraph:

A tax‐exempt charitable organization with more than one unrelated business may aggregate its net income and net losses from all unrelated business activities for purposes of determining whether the organization is publicly supported under these rules.^185.1 That is, the bucketing rule^185.2 does not apply in this context. Nonetheless, organizations have the option of determining public support using their unrelated business taxable income calculated under the bucketing rule or in the aggregate.

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Illustrations of organizations satisfying these requirements are the subject of Priv. Ltr. Ruls. 201936002, 201936003, and 201307008.

(c) Supporting Organizations

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Supported organizations are the subject of IRC § 509(f)(3).

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An illustration of a situation where a tax‐exempt business league should have placed its substantial charitable and educational activities in a separate organization, such as a supporting organization, is provided in Priv. Ltr. Rul. 202017035.

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F. Supp. 3d 949 (W.D. Wis. 2017).

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In a subsequent decision, this court held that the trustees of the supporting organization repeatedly breached fiduciary duties to the supported organization, to the end that the fees and costs owed to the supported organization must be paid by the trustees of the supporting organization personally, a trustee must be removed, and an institutional trustee selected (Cohen v. Minneapolis Jewish Fed'n, 346 F. Supp. 3d 1274 (W.D. Wis. 2018)). These decisions were affirmed, with the appellate court writing that “[w]e do not think it necessary to add to the district court's explanation of these decisions, all of which are either compelled by law (including the law of contracts and the Internal Revenue Code) or within the scope of remedial discretion allowed to a court by Wisconsin's law of trusts” (Cohen v. Minneapolis Jewish Fed'n, 776 Fed. Appx. 912, 913 (7th Cir. 2019)).

§ 12.4 PRIVATE FOUNDATION RULES

(f) Other Provisions

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Private foundations have, for decades, generally been subject to an annual excise tax of 2 percent on their net investment income, which could be reduced to 1 percent under certain circumstances; for tax years beginning after December 20, 2019, this tax is imposed at a rate of 1.39 percent.³⁶²

Notes

1 ^155.1 Reg. § 1.170A‐9(f)(7)(v).

2 ^155.2 See § 25.5.

3 ^185.1 Reg. § 1.509(a)‐3(a)(3)(i), (4).

4 ^185.2 See § 25.5.

5 ³⁶² IRC § 4940. This law change was occasioned by enactment of the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2019 § 206; this act is Division Q of the Further Consolidated Appropriations act, 2020 (Pub. L. No. 116‐94).