Tax-Exempt Organizations and Donors Under OBBBA: Key Provisions, Compliance Risks, and Planning

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Course Details
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Live Online with Live Q&A
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Intermediate
- work Practice Area
Tax Law
- event Date
Monday, September 29, 2025
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
90 minutes
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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BARBRI is a NASBA CPE sponsor and this 110-minute webinar is accredited for 2.0 CPE credits.
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BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
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Live Online
On Demand
This CLE/CPE webinar will provide tax counsel and advisers a detailed analysis of key provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) impacting tax-exempt organizations and donors. The panel will discuss the endowment excise tax under Section 4968, excess compensation excise under Section 4960, charitable contributions, compliance risks, and planning strategies for tax-exempt organizations and donors.
Faculty

Mr. Fleming focuses his practice on serving the legal needs of nonprofit organizations primarily in the areas of corporate law and governance, charitable trusts, federal, state and local tax matters, fiduciary duties, charitable fundraising, and related matters. He regularly acts as outside general counsel to a variety of nonprofit organizations, including publicly supported charities, private foundations, mental health organizations, social service providers, museums, educational institutions, and health care facilities. In this capacity, Mr. Fleming advises these organizations on all manner of issues affecting their operations including corporate formation and qualification for tax-exempt status, federal tax law compliance, nonprofit mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, corporate governance matters, charitable contribution issues, and unrelated business income tax questions.

Mr. Tenney is a Director, Washington National Tax at Forvis Mazars.
Description
The OBBBA provides significant changes to the U.S. income tax code impacting nonprofits and donors. The impact on tax-exempt organizations will have serious operational and tax reporting impacts on nonprofit entities and donors. For tax advisers and executives serving exempt organizations, the new law creates significant challenges.
The OBBBA contains provisions directly aimed at exempt organizations, including the expansion of the definition of covered employees, increases in excise taxes for private colleges and universities, changes to charitable contribution deductions, and other items impacting the operations and tax compliance of these organizations and donors.
Listen as our experienced panel provides a critical first look at the implications of OBBBA on nonprofit entities and donors, enabling tax advisers to get a grasp on the impact of the new law on exempt organization clients.
Outline
I. Provisions in 2025 tax legislation pertaining directly to tax-exempt organizations and donors
II. UBTI/UBIT calculations and reporting
III. Compensation of "covered employees"
IV. Business and individual provisions that will impact tax-exempt organizations
Benefits
The panel will discuss these and other key issues:
- How certain excise taxes are applied and calculated under the new law
- Tax reporting requirements under OBBBA
- Impact on compensation of "covered employees"
- Strategies for minimizing UBIT and excise taxes on compensation
- Assessing the likely impact of reduced incentives for individual taxpayers to itemize on exempt orgs reliant on deductible contributions
NASBA Details
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Detail the provisions in the new tax law specifically aimed at tax-exempt organizations and donors
- Determine how to calculate UBTI disallowing loss aggregation
- Identify the impact of changes in tax provisions for individuals and business entities on tax-exempt organizations
- Design strategies for minimizing the negative impacts of the new law on tax-exempt organizations
- Field of Study: Taxes
- Level of Knowledge: Intermediate
- Advance Preparation: None
- Teaching Method: Seminar/Lecture
- Delivery Method: Group-Internet (via computer)
- Attendance Monitoring Method: Attendance is monitored electronically via a participant's PIN and through a series of attendance verification prompts displayed throughout the program
- Prerequisite:
Three years+ business or public firm experience preparing complex tax forms and schedules, supervising other preparers or accountants. Specific knowledge and understanding of pass-through taxation, including taxation of partnerships, S corporations and sole proprietorships, qualified business income, net operating losses and loss limitations; familiarity with net operating loss carry-backs, carry-forwards and carried interests.

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Strafford is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
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