More About 501(c)(4)s Than You Ever Wanted to Know

Last fall the NYU Law School’s National Center on Philanthropy and the Law focused its annual conference on section 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations. The conference papers will be published in the NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy, but for those who can’t wait the following papers are now available on SSRN (in the order they were presented at the conference):

Ellen P. Aprill, Examining the Landscape of Section 501(c)(4) Social Welfare Organizations

David S. Miller, Advice for Jeff Bezos: Social Welfare Organizations as Grantmakers

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, A (Partial) Defense of Section 501(c)(4)’s “Catchall” Nature

Roger Colinvaux, Social Welfare and Political Organizations: Ending the Plague of Inconsistency

For those particularly interested in the use of 501(c)(4)s as part of a group of affiliated organizations engaged in advocacy and other political activity, the Alliance for Justice has recently released the 4th edition of The Connection: Strategies for Creating and Operating 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, and Political Organizations (written by B. Holly Schadler).

Lloyd Mayer