TLG Managing Partner Jeff Tenenbaum Quoted in NOTUS Article, “Trump’s Assault on Liberal Institutions Has Nonprofits Panicking: Are We Next?”

TLG Managing Partner Jeff Tenenbaum was quoted in the NOTUS article, “Trump’s Assault on Liberal Institutions Has Nonprofits Panicking: Are We Next?”

“Attorney Jeffrey Tenenbaum, whose firm only represents nonprofits, told NOTUS the second Trump presidency has already triggered a mass uptick in clients, in part over the threat of losing their tax-exempt status. “Since the beginning of the year, that growth has been off the charts,” he said of his firm’s nonprofit client base, pointing to fears about tax exemption, anti-DEI efforts and federal funding. Tenenbaum said he’s been trying to reassure clients that sweeping changes to who can qualify to be tax-exempt are under the authority of Congress, not the president.”

“The legal pathway for Trump to mass revoke nonprofits’ status is somewhere between tenuous and downright impossible. It’s not inconceivable, however, that an executive branch employee could manually change the status of a set of organizations in the government’s business master file to comply with a presidential directive, he said.

“It’s not lawful, it doesn’t comply with IRS rules here, but could it happen? I can’t say no,” he said. Still, his advice to most groups is to stay calm and trust that they’ll have a strong case to fight back if Trump takes an aggressive step.”