This site was built out of spite, because no one else bothered to explain the nexus of tax exemption and reality without romanticizing it. So I did. What started as a few notes for lost founders turned into a full-blown encyclopedia of nonprofit law, one question at a time. That work became Exempt Nexus.
Romantically speaking, there are over a million words on this site, about as many as The Odyssey, The Iliad, Don Quixote, and Les Misérables combined; except those poor bastards got to finish their work, while I'm still updating this legal Frankenstein every time the IRS reshuffles its paperwork.
Education Laced With Consequences
Back in the 2000s, I had more ambition than sense, thinking nonprofit law was "interesting", until I put the law books aside and picked another profession. Or so I thought. A few years later, I tried to publish that useless knowledge on the internet for free.
That "quick share" became this beast of a nonprofit reference site, a rebellion against misinformation and corruption. It won't stop those who treat public funds as their personal piggy bank, but maybe, just maybe, it can keep honest founders from becoming Exhibit A on Treasury letterhead.
This site dissects tax exemption and nonprofit compliance law into smithereens; if you can't find it here, it simply doesn't matter or doesn't exist. It's been helping nonprofits for a generation and will continue to serve as intended.
Keep it Alive, as Others Have Done the Same for you
If you've found this site useful, consider sharing or linking to it, or book one of the absurdly affordable services priced like I'm still in college. That's what keeps it running and covers its colossal upkeep.
I hope this agonizing work of two decades proves useful in some way — at the very least.
P.S. That's me, when I started this 20 years ago. No hair left, still a stunner though.