Incorporated but not irs-registered: Exploring the (dark) grey fringes of the nonprofit universe

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 925-945

  Grønbjerg, Kirsten A ^a   Liu, Helen K ^a   Pollak, Thomas H ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Urban Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

IRS registration; Nonprofit; regional analyses; state incorporation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956480934     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764009342898     Document Type: Article

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