Form 990 Videos:
Understanding the Changes

About changes to the Form 990 - About the Videos - About the Presenter
Video Technical Specifications - Additional Resources on the Form 990

About these videos
At this site, you'll find nearly three hours of video taken from 990s Do Matter, a training designed and conducted by Eve Rose Borenstein for the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, with the support of the Otto Bremer Foundation, in January 2009.

Video links on the right are broken down by presentation sections, and you'll want to download the presentation slides (3.06 MB, PDF) and the sample form (2.12 MB, PDF) used during the training prior to viewing. We've tried to make each section roughly 10 minutes or less to allow you to learn at your own pace.

The IRS has completely overhauled the Form 990 effective for years begun after December 31, 2007. Nonprofits of all kinds have a stake in not only learning about the changes and filing their forms correctly, but taking proactive measures to reform their operations as required by the new form. Also see our Form 990 Resources page with links to articles and other online resources about changes to the form.

About the presenter

Course author and instructor Eve Borenstein has taught Form 990 essentials for almost two decades to nonprofit organization managers and consultants, as well as to the CPA community. She co-chairs the American Bar Association Form 990 Task Force and helped the IRS develop the Redesigned Form.

Eve’s law practice focuses on the impact of tax and regulatory rules applied by the IRS and state agencies on "tax-exempt" and/or public benefit organizations. Over the course of the past 19 years, Eve has built a national practice, consulting with CPAs and individual nonprofit organizations on tax planning and filing matters. She has represented more than 850 tax-exempt organizations before the IRS on audits, exemption applications and status correspondence. In addition to her federal tax practice, she also counsels organizations on the practical application of governance and various other state statutory mandates and/or aspirational "best practices."

Technical specifications for the videos
All videos are progressive download in Adobe Flash. You will need Flash player 8.0.24 or newer to run. If you do not have that version of the viewer, you will automatically be prompted to get it, or you can install it here. (Flash is currently at version 10+ so this is a fairly 'old' version. Flash has a 98+% installed based worldwide - you probably already have it.)

The videos play best on a DSL or better connection. Remember, both DSL and cable are affected by the number of users on the line and the intensity of the use, like file downloading. If the video starts slow, just pause it and let the progress bar 'grow' a little before resuming. Most DSL or better connections will have no problem at all.

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