About the Author
Jody Blazek is a partner in Blazek & Vetterling, a Houston CPA firm focusing on tax and financial planning for exempt organizations and the individuals who create, fund, and work with them. BV serves more than 400 nonprofit organizations providing financial reporting and tax compliance and planning services.
Jody began her professional career at KPMG, then Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Her concentration on exempt organizations began in 1969; she studied and advised clients about the Tax Reform Act that completely revamped the taxation of charities and created private foundations. From 1972 to 1981, she gained nonprofit management experience as treasurer of the Menil Interests, where she worked with John and Dominique de Menil to plan the Menil Collection, The Rothko Chapel, and other projects of the Menil Foundation. She reentered public practice in 1981 to found the firm she now serves.
She is the author of six books in the Wiley Nonprofit Series: Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations 5th Edition (2012); Private Foundations: Tax Law and Compliance 5th Edition (2019); and The Legal Answer Book for Private Foundations (2002), the latter two coauthored with Bruce R. Hopkins; Financial Planning for Nonprofit Organizations Made Easy (2008); Revised Form 990, A Line-by-Line Preparation Guide co-authored with Amanda Adams (2009); and Form 1023 Preparation Guide (2005).
Jody is a past chair of the Tax-Exempt Organizations Resource Panel and was ...
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