Private Foundations

About the Authors

BRUCE R. HOPKINS is the principal in the Bruce R. Hopkins Law Firm, LLC, practicing in Kansas City, Missouri. He concentrates on the representation of private foundations and other tax-exempt organizations. His practice ranges over the entirety of law matters involving exempt organizations, with emphasis on the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns, Internet communications developments, the law of charitable giving (including planned giving), and fundraising law issues.

Mr. Hopkins served as Chair of the Committee on Exempt Organizations, Tax Section, American Bar Association; Chair, Section of Taxation, National Association of College and University Attorneys; and President, Planned Giving Study Group of Greater Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hopkins is the series editor of Wiley's Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series. In addition to being co-author of Private Foundations: Tax Law and Compliance, Fourth Edition, he is the author of The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Eleventh Edition; Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Law Dictionary; The Planning Guide for the Law of ...