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January 16, 2015 at 07:16 AM
A U.S. District Court judge in San Francisco has tentatively ruled in favor of an open-records activist who had sued the Internal Revenue Service to force the agency to make nonprofit tax forms more accessible to the public.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported the development on Thursday in the case that has broad implications for transparency in the nonprofit sector.
Charities file Form 990, which contains a wealth of information about their revenue, expenses, programs, salaries and governance issues.
In 2013, Carl Malamud and his advocacy group Public.Resource.org asked the IRS for the returns in a machine-readable format of nine nonprofit groups that had been filed them electronically.
