Krieg DeVault provides comprehensive legal services to nonprofit organizations. Our Nonprofit Practice Group lends expertise to businesses, institutions, individuals and families seeking to accomplish nonprofit objectives. Our clients include hospital and health organizations, public charities, educational institutions, churches, government entities, private foundations, low-income housing organizations, and special purpose nonprofit corporations.

Our services include:

• Forming nonprofit entities and drafting organizational documents and policies
• Establishing private and operating foundations, with particular emphasis on assisting clients with fulfilling charitable objectives
• Assisting with tax filings, including preparation of applications for exemptions from federal, state and property taxes
• Advising on unrelated business income tax (UBIT) issues
• Advising on "intermediate sanctions" regulations pertaining to compensation and transactional matters
• Advising on matters of corporate governance, with special focus on compliance, conflict of interest and ethical standards
• Advising on joint venture activities with for-profit partners, including hospital-physician joint ventures and student loan development, marketing and servicing joint ventures
• Providing representation and services relating to annual, capital and deferred giving development programs, including the preparation of agreements and administrative documents for charitable remainder and lead trusts, gift annuities and pooled income funds
• Litigating issues related to nonprofits, including property tax exemptions, charitable investments, gift construction and charitable trust administration and reformation matters
• Serving as counsel for issuers, borrowers, underwriters and others involved in tax-exempt and taxable financings
• Advising on state charitable gaming laws
• Submitting Internal Revenue Service and Indiana Department of Revenue ruling requests concerning contemplated transactions
• Drafting and opposing legislation affecting nonprofit clients
• Representing nonprofits before state agencies, boards and commissions, including the Indiana State Department of Health, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, Indiana State Budget Agency, Indiana Health Professions Bureau, Indiana Department of Insurance, Lobby Registration Commission, Indiana Gaming Commission, Indiana Department of Labor, Indiana Department of Revenue, Indiana Board of Tax Review, and Indiana Family and Social Services Agency
• Providing securities law advice to nonprofits serving the education loan industry
• Providing general counsel for nonprofit organizations
• Conducting seminars on a variety of nonprofit issues

Members of our Nonprofit Practice Group include lawyers who have served nonprofit corporations as in-house general counsel, senior executive officers, and governing board members and trustees.