Policy Advocacy Groups

The IRS's 501(c)(3) lobbying overview says organizations can hold educational meetings, distribute educational materials or consider policy issues educationally without that activity necessarily being lobbying. It separately warns about substantial lobbying. Describe the specific activity; the overview is not a blanket compliance determination for an advocacy program.

For this 501(c)(3) overview, the IRS describes legislation as acts and similar matters before legislative bodies or the public through referendums and initiatives. It excludes executive, judicial and administrative actions from that definition. Preserve the proceeding's scope rather than treating every agency-comment activity as legislative lobbying.

The IRS's retrieved 501(c)(3) guidance prohibits organizational intervention for or against candidates and identifies campaign-fund contributions and organizational candidate-position statements as examples. Distinguish issue information from candidate activity. A charity label alone does not establish that a particular communication is permitted.

The IRS says nonpartisan voter forums, guides and registration can fall outside prohibited campaign activity depending on facts and circumstances. Candidate-favoring bias can change that treatment. Describe the neutral information service and refer to the actual conditions, without turning this overview into approval of an event or its copy.

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