News from the Hill Republicans Seize Control of Congress What an exciting midterm election week! Regardless of which candidates you were routing for, Election Night is always eventful. Republicans emerged as the new Senate majority with 53 seats, as of this morning’s count. Democrats hold 45 seats…

Tell Congress: Pass the America Gives More Act While your lawmakers are home in October to ask for votes, make sure you ask them to pass the America Gives More Act provisions into permanent law during the lame duck! A Bloomberg BNA piece this week highlighted the challenging position in which IRA…

Foundations to Senate: Vote on the America Gives More Act Contact your Senators Today Congress returned to D.C. this week, which means it’s time for a final push to get your Senators to take action on the America Gives More Act (H.R. 4719). After this week, your lawmakers will be in D.C. for merely…

Just Announced: August Recess Toolkit Have you scheduled time with your Congressional delegation during August recess? If so, we have just the tools and resources you might need . . . In the past few editions of our weekly Washington Snapshot newsletter, we have been previewing an upcoming policy…

We want to remind our readers that we will not be publishing Snapshot next week, in light of the Fourth of July holiday. We wish you all a happy Fourth! News from the Hill Republican Lawmakers Slam IRS Over Lost E-mails We told you last week about the fury on Capitol Hill over thousands of e-mails…

Philanthropy Leaders Converge on D.C. for Philanthropy Week This was an eventful week at the intersection of philanthropy and public policy! Over 200 philanthropic leaders gathered in D.C. for the first annual Philanthropy Week in Washington, President Obama released his Fiscal Year 2015 Budget…

Chairman Camp Releases Tax Reform Proposal Dozens of provisions impact tax-exempt organizations As we let our readers know in a Washington Snapshot Breaking News alert on Wednesday, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI-4) released his long-awaited comprehensive tax reform bill this week.…

Last updated: July 7, 2025 Because numerous provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act were set to expire at the end of 2025, Congress passed a tax package in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This page serves as a landing page for key Council resources related to the tax package. For the most…

Welcome to November! There are less than 3 weeks until the Charitable Giving Coalition D.C. Fly-In on Wednesday, November 20th! Join your foundation and nonprofit colleagues here in D.C. as we meet with key lawmakers and their staff to advocate for the charitable deduction. Recent developments…

After nearly three weeks of a costly government shutdown and partisan wrangling over government spending, the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), and the debt ceiling limit, Congress struck a deal that opened the government and suspended the debt ceiling. President Obama signed the bill into law a…

Gridlock in Washington As the government remains shut down and negotiations proceed slowly, philanthropy is stepping in with stopgap offers to protect programs Americans need. These efforts reflect the steadfastness of our philanthropic and charitable communities, as Council Senior Vice President…

Historic 50th anniversary in Washington Council President and CEO Vikki Spruill and Susan Taylor Batten, President and CEO of the Association of Black Foundation Executives, co-authored a reflection in today’s Nonprofit Quarterly to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for…

Up on Capitol Hill . . . Countdown to the August Congressional Recess Congress heads off on recess today. We delayed our usual Thursday delivery of Snapshot until today so we could report to you on the latest breaking news. Tax Reform Anticipating a House Tax Reform Bill this Fall Both Politco…

Up on Capitol Hill . . . Tax Reform Should a newly reformed tax code raise more revenue than the old tax code? Discussion this week has centered on whether tax reform will be revenue raising (the position reflected by Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus) or revenue neutral (reflected by…

Issue The charitable deduction is a tax provision which allows individuals to reduce their taxable income by the total amount of charitable contributions they made in that tax year (with some limitations, depending of the type of gift—i.e. cash, stocks, property—or the type of organization…