For weeks, nonprofit organizations in Washington have braced for President Donald Trump to issue a sweeping executive order they fear would target their tax-exempt status — and threaten their very existence.
Trump’s Friday Truth Social post saying the government would revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status raised the fears of nonprofit groups to yet another degree. Although lawyers say there’s not a legal pathway for a mass revocation of status by the president, nonprofits are worried not just about the prospect of an expensive legal battle, but also about major donors getting jitters.
Rather than await a possible attack with a bullseye pinned to their backs, environmental groups and other not-for-profits of all types are trying to preemptively prepare for a fight.