Services

Eve Rose Borenstein, LLC is the mechanism by which Eve provides both training sessions as well as educational consulting to the exempt sector and its advisors.

• Seminars and Speaking 
  Eve has for decades provided tailored presentations via seminar and  conference sponsors, CPA firms, and nonprofit associations. Her teaching materials are continually updated and reflect her extensive law-practice experience and her work with the IRS through professional committee platforms. Her teaching goal is singular: assisting exempt organizations in more efficiently understanding and meeting their reporting obligations and tax-exemption qualification mandates. 

  Presentations are typically  tailored to the audience’s individual needs – past examples may be found in the listing of Presentations/Workshops within Eve’s Professional Resume (link is provided on this page, below). Rates are individually negotiated and vary based on type of sponsor, travel requirements, etc.

• Individual Educational Consultations
  Eve advises on the underlying mandates that apply to the exempt sector to individual accountants and nonprofit managers (including Board members), CPA firms, nonprofit advisors, and the press. Such consults (and the discussions within same) do not constitute the provision of legal advice.

  Time is provided on either a pro bono basis or charged based on Eve’s hourly rate. 

Inquiries regarding accessing Eve’s time (and/or materials) for EITHER Seminars and Speaking engagements/presentations OR in favor of an Educational Consultation may be made by email (preferred): eve@taxexemptlaw.org) or by phone (feel free to leave a message): 612.978.1205. 

Please note that Eve is asked to respond to hundreds of requests per quarter – if you do not hear back as quickly as you wish, do not hesitate to send a reminder (squeaky wheel works!) 

Biography

Eve has practiced law since 1985, operating first for 15 years the Tax Exempt Law Office of Eve Rose Borenstein, LLC, and then, from January 2004 through April 2019, BAM Law Office, LLC (formerly Borenstein and McVeigh Law Office). As of May 1, 2019 Eve is Of Counsel with Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, LLP www.harmoncurran.com, although semi-retired and only handling limited client engagements as of April 2023. In all three firms, her practice has focused almost exclusively on the unique tax and administrative rules applied by the IRS, as well as federal and state agencies, to “tax-exempt” organizations. In addition to practicing law, Eve also has operated since 1990 a teaching and speaking consultancy, Eve Rose Borenstein, LLC  www.taxexemptlaw.org. (the subject of this site!)

Eve’s extensive experience serving exempt organizations and their advisors nationally includes assisting an extraordinarily diverse clientele of organizations of all sizes on planning issues and compliance needs, as well as direct representation before the IRS. Over 30+ years she has represented more than 1,100 organizations on IRS field audit exams, private letter ruling requests, exemption applications and sub-classification determinations, and other status issues.

Eve has long worked to expand exempt organizations’ access to quality legal and accounting assistance. With the American Bar Association’s Tax Section Committee on Exempt Organizations, the TEGE Exempt Organizations Council and other professional association committees (including those of the AICPA), she has committed thousands of hours to expanding pro bono assistance to the nonprofit sector and to efforts with the IRS relating to improvement of the agency’s nonprofit filings and procedures.

Eve’s teaching and educational consultancy has long-served nonprofits as well as the CPAs and lawyers who assist the sector. Via CPE course development and instruction, and  speaking and  training engagements, Eve has long committed a significant portion of her work hours to helping the sector “do it right the first time”.

Eve is a proud New Jersey native and initially was a New England-transplant (graduating from the University of Rhode Island). She move to Minneapolis in 1982 to attend the University of Minnesota Law School (graduating in 1985), and never left. Her first job after law school was in Ernst & Whinney’s Tax Department, where she was mentored in all things EO, after which she began her own law practice (and the rest is history!). She resides in Minneapolis and has two wonderful children (and two grandchildren), all of whom live close by.

Highlighted Professional Contributions and Honors

United States Congress Testimony and Public Comments to IRS Exempt Organizations Division

• Invited Testimony on the Redesigned Form 990 before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means, Oversight Subcommittee:  2nd Hearing on Oversight and Operations of Tax-Exempt Organizations, July 25, 2012.
• Participated in over 600 pages of the 3000 total pages of comments provided to the IRS on the IRS’ Proposed 2008 Form 990 Redesign (sought summer 2007) and Draft Instructions to said Form (sought April 15 – June 1, 2008).

Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award

• 2018 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award, bestowed by the Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association, Section of Business Law for distinguished service as outside counsel to nonprofit organizations. Download PDF

Participating Member: American Bar Association Committee on Exempt Organizations, Section of Taxation

• Contributor: ABA Comments on Proposed Regulations Under Section 512(a)(6) (June 2020)
• Co-chair, Form 990 Revision Taskforce, 2005 – 2009
• Contributor, Response (July 2004) to June 22, 2004 United States Senate Committee on Tax Hearings and Staff’s “White Paper” on Charitable Organizations
• Liaison to American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Exempt Organization Technical Resource Panel, 2002 – present
• Member, Political & Lobbying Activities & Organizations Subcommittee, 1993 – present

TEGE Exempt Organizations Council

• Inaugurating participant in establishing nation-wide Council superseding what had originally been IRS-led Regional Councils, February 2018
• “TIC-TAQ Forums” Committee Co-Chair, coordinating presenting practitioners’ questions to IRS Officials and then overseeing (including moderating) thrice-year “EO Update” sessions with government speakers from Exempt Organizations Division’s Directors Office and Office of Chief Counsel (EEE), February 2018 – March 2023

Resume

Eve’s professional resume is updated on an annual basis.  It may be accessed in .pdf form here: