{"id":467715,"date":"2010-03-24T17:20:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2010-03-24T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:20:33","slug":"us-charities-hit-by-recession%e2%80%99s-impact-on-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/467715","title":{"rendered":"US charities hit by recession\u2019s impact on spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12624\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 360px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12624\" title=\"soup kitchen\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/03\/soup-kitchen-350x253-custom.jpg\" alt=\"soup kitchen\" width=\"350\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mealtime at the Capucin Soup Kitchen in Detroit, Detroit, 9 Dec 2008\/Carlos Barria <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thousands of small U.S. charities are likely to close this year as cautious donors and governments tighten spending and some states consider removing nonprofit tax breaks, experts said <span id=\"articleText\">during a panel discussion on &#8220;The New Nonprofit Reality&#8221; <\/span>on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;States are looking for any opportunity for  tax revenue this year and nonprofits are increasingly a very big target,&#8221;<\/em> said Stacy Palmer, editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/philanthropy.com\/section\/Home\/172\"><em>The Chronicle of Philanthropy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii has proposed a 1 percent tax on charities, Kansas is considering making nonprofits pay sales taxes and Pennsylvania is thinking about removing a property tax break for charities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/28\/us\/28charity.html?scp=3&amp;sq=charity%20tax&amp;st=cse\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>There were 1.9 million  nonprofit groups in the United States in 2006 accounting for 5 percent of gross domestic product, according to figures from Independent Sector. All are exempt from federal income tax.<\/p>\n<p>The most prominent include the Red Cross and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but such organizations range from soup kitchens to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/19\/AR2009021903512.html?hpid=topnews\">religious congregations and faith-based charities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN2416281420100324?type=marketsNews\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at  RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mealtime at the Capucin Soup Kitchen in Detroit, Detroit, 9 Dec 2008\/Carlos Barria Thousands of small U.S. charities are likely to close this year as cautious donors and governments tighten spending and some states consider removing nonprofit tax breaks, experts said during a panel discussion on &#8220;The New Nonprofit Reality&#8221; on Wednesday. &#8220;States are looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}