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Charities can check you out, but this is too much!

The Wall Street Journal reports today on hospitals taking information gathered from patients and using it in hospital fundraising efforts. Certainly charities should be able to do research on potential donors, but this is going to far!

Hospitals regularly gather much more information about us than other charities.

Hospitals have struggled with the protected [...]

Question: Is this Charity a Qualified Organization (QO)?

Answer: For IRS purposes, you don’t get a charitable contribution deduction unless you made your donation to a Qualified Organization (QO). To be a QO, the organization must

Be a church or Be a government or Apply to the IRS

Concerning category #3, if it’s not listed in IRS Publication 78 it’s not [...]