More ministries call themselves a ‘church’ or ‘association of churches’ to avoid disclosure requirements
Since 2020, more than 80 of the 1,000 largest Christian ministries in the US have asked the Internal Revenue Service to classify them as an “association of churches.”
Experts weigh in on nonprofit to for-profit transitions.
Grand Canyon University (GCU), a Christian university in Arizona with 117,800 on-campus and online students, operated as a nonprofit from 1949 to 2004 before becoming a for-profit under a publicly traded parent.