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Billions flow to Orange County charities every year
Column: The sector is big business, but thousands of local
organizations have lost tax-exempt status
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PUBLISHED: December 4, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. I UPDATED: December 4, 2022 at
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As you stuff your dollars into the red kettle this holiday season, know this:
Orange County nonprofits reported a whopping $24.8 billion in income since
2020 — some 10% of O.C.'s gross domestic product, according to data from
the Internal Revenue Service and the St. III..... uiiis 11::'
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And that doesn't even count the gazillions folks donate to churches and the
like, which aren't reported to Uncle Sam.
Which is to say, charities are an important segment of our local economy.
Every city is home to nonprofits that generated millions in income, and
several county islands weren't far behind.
The big gorillas here host nonprofit hospitals (St. Joseph in Irvine, $1.2 billion;
Memorial Health Services in Fountain Valley, $2.6 billion; Hoag in Newport
Beach, $1.7 billion; Children's Hospital Orange County in Orange, $1.1 billion;
Providence Medical in Anaheim, $1.1 billion), but even little Rossmoor had a
couple nonprofits of the religious variety, bringing in hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
It stunned us a bit to learn there are more than 9,000 IRS -recognized, tax-
exempt nonprofits in Orange County. That means they don't have to pay taxes
on the money they bring in. They're an eclectic and sometimes strange lot,
including quilting and surfing and meditation clubs, fraternities and Christian
fiction writers' groups and labor unions, parent -teacher organizations and
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poker clubs and addiction treatment centers. (A searchable spreadsheet is,......... t
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You'll find Bardeen ir�.....Il ........iir:�.ii Partners listed there — the nonprofit land baron subsidiary
of the mighty Irvine Ranch Water District. i°The mission of the organization is
to promote the common good and the general welfare of the residents,
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It can be dizzying to peruse all the nonprofits, and a skeptic's eyebrow might
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is legit and your donation is actually tax-deductible. You can do that quickly
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:v...... t over the last dozen or so years because they failed to file financial
information with the IRS.
Sometimes they lost tax-exempt status because they ceased operations and
are kaput; sometimes because another nonprofit picked up their tasks;
sometimes because they didn't understand that they must file the paperwork
annually.
Some that lost nonprofit status this year include the Annual Anaheim Mayor's
Prayer Breakfast Committee (completely separate from the nonprofit Anaheim
Chamber of Commerce's event with much the same name), the Buena Park
Sister City Foundation, the Solid Landings Foundation (related to a defunct
addiction treatment rehab), Community Support Detox in Newport Beach (also
rehab), teacher's associations, fraternities, and the Kindness and Goodness
Foundation in Cypress, which seems especially sad somehow. (You can find a
spreadsheet of these organizations at the...all.........:�-toil............:f:....:t.hii .... t iir „ as well.)
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organizations on the revoked list could be in process with that. It's unclear,
though, if your donation in the interim would be tax-deductible, so proceed
with caution.
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Saddleback Church on the list. Your donations to recognized religious
organizations are tax-deductible anyway.
But you will find many, many smaller ministries with exempt status. It's a bit
perplexing, but when it comes to IRS rules, what isn't?
i°(M)any churches do seek IRS recognition of tax-exempt status because that
recognition provides reliance to church leaders, members and contributors
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that a church is recognized as exempt from taxation and is eligible to receive
tax-deductible contributions," the IRS says. To that end, we find many
Buddhist, Islamic, Jewish and Christian organizations on the list.
(Photo by Gene Blevins/Contributing Photographer)
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property owners who do pay taxes.
Religious organizations in America are largely exempt from income, sales,
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. .......air.......a.i..,...:�.....................il�...... :........, y,,. That translates into a break of some 7 billion a year
for religious institutions in California, and some $700 million a year for those
in Orange County.
We'll be telling you more about the local charities that used commercial
fundraisers who often kept gigantic chunks of what was raised for themselves
— as well as about the county's most and least generous ZIP codes.
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