CHASE COUNSEL
PLLC

Tax-Exempt Status & IRS Matters

Facing a 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status or IRS Compliance Issue?

Legal counsel for nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations facing federal exemption, public-charity classification, IRS examination, filing, reinstatement, and related tax-exempt status issues.

Complimentary Initial Case Screening

Limited to conflicts, matter fit, and potential engagement. Substantive legal advice is provided only after engagement.

Washington, D.C. Office

800 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20006

Direct: +1 202-870-1977

Tysons Office

1750 Tysons Boulevard
Suite 1500
McLean, Virginia 22102

Direct: +1 703-403-1488

Tax-exempt status issues can arise from IRS examinations, missed filings, changes in public support, private-benefit or inurement concerns, operational changes, and questions concerning continued qualification under § 501(c)(3). Chase Counsel evaluates the organization's governing documents, activities, financial support, filing history, IRS correspondence, and available corrective or administrative options.

Chase Sizemore, Attorney

Attorney Chase Sizemore, JD, LLM

Principal, Chase Counsel PLLC

Georgetown Tax LLM | Former KPMG Auditor

U.S. Tax Court | Columbia University Graduate Studies

National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Diploma

30+ Years of Legal Experience

When an organization's federal tax-exempt status is at risk, the issue is not paperwork. It is representation.

What We Handle

501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status

Federal exemption issues involving organizational purpose, operations, exempt activities, and continued qualification under § 501(c)(3).

IRS Examinations of Tax-Exempt Organizations

IRS examinations, information requests, compliance inquiries, and related federal tax controversy matters involving nonprofit organizations.

Revocation & Reinstatement Issues

Evaluation of revoked or jeopardized tax-exempt status, corrective filings, reinstatement options, and related IRS procedures.

Public Charity Classification

Public-support tests, § 509 classification, changes in sources of support, and potential reclassification as a private foundation.

Form 990 & Filing Compliance

Federal information-return compliance, filing-history issues, missed filings, and related IRS consequences.

Private Benefit & Inurement

Federal tax-exemption issues involving insiders, private benefit, private inurement, and transactions that may threaten exempt status.

Before you hire a lawyer, know who you are actually hiring.

Why Clients Choose Chase Counsel

Georgetown Tax LLM | U.S. Tax Court | Former KPMG Auditor | Columbia University Graduate Studies | 30+ Years of Legal Experience

Attorney Chase Sizemore personally evaluates and leads each nonprofit and tax-exempt matter, drawing on more than thirty years of legal and advisory experience. He earned an LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center, previously worked as an auditor at KPMG, is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court, completed graduate studies in nonprofit management at Columbia University, and received advanced trial-advocacy training through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

His experience extends well beyond his law practice. In 2006, he founded Teach Them To Fish Foundation, a § 501(c)(3) public charity that builds and supports primary schools in rural Cambodia and Uganda. Through nearly two decades of nonprofit leadership, he has dealt directly with governance, board responsibilities, charitable operations, international programs, donor relationships, and the practical challenges of managing charitable resources across borders. His humanitarian service has been recognized with the U.S. Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, the Royal Order of Cambodia medal, and eight Cambodian Sthapana Cheat gold medals.

His published and forthcoming work includes the legal treatise Nonprofit Stewards: Governance, Fiduciary Duty, and Accountability in Tax-Exempt Organizations, the memoirs The Road to Kitgum: A Memoir of Cambodia, Uganda, and the Search for a Child Lost to War and Where the Red Earth Broke: A Memoir of Cambodia, Mercy, and the Cost of Rescue, and numerous legal and scholarly articles.

Teach Them To Fish Foundation in Practice

This video documents the opening of Preah Khol Primary School in Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia.

Preah Khol Primary School -- Opening Ceremony

Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia

Nonprofit Stewards forthcoming book cover

Forthcoming Book

Nonprofit Stewards

Governance, Fiduciary Duty, and Accountability in Tax-Exempt Organizations

By Chase Sizemore, JD, LLM

Nonprofit Stewards examines nonprofit governance, fiduciary duties, tax-exempt organizations, board oversight, donor stewardship, and institutional accountability.

Drawing upon decades of legal practice, advanced tax training, and firsthand experience founding and operating an international nonprofit organization, Nonprofit Stewards explores the legal and practical responsibilities of nonprofit leaders, directors, fiduciaries, and advisors.

The manuscript is currently undergoing professional line editing.

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