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Originally Posted by wildwoodfam
It's actually run by the Eastern Massachusetts Girls Scouts organization - slightly larger organization....still tax exempt and rightly so. But saying its run by a tiny Troop is like saying Camp Bernadette is run by Blessed Sacrament Parish in Medford....when it is run by the RC Church - Manchester Diocese.
Again not exactly - they are owned by the YMCA Merrimack Valley which runs the Lawrence YMCA and the Andover/North Andover YMCA - see where I am headed with the latter....its not run by an inner city organization, in fact when I attended Camp Lawrence it was populated with many kids from North Andover and Andover along with kids from all around Massachusetts.
Anyway - as someone associated with non-profit private schools which are currently under the gun in Massachusetts to be taxed, I can say that not only is it possible that this will happen to other non-profits, but it is likely to happen (maybe not for another decade, but it will happen.)  |
It's run by the Eastern Massachusetts Girl Scouts, but its OWNED by the Arlington Girl Scouts.
My son goes to Camp Lawrence and I have never lived anywhere near Lawrence or Andover... see where I am going with this.... I live on Bear Island, many of the island children attend the camps. I never suggested it was inner city children. And I don't think it matters much. Non-profit organizations benefit ALL of society. And the ramifications of taxing them go a lot farther that most people imagine.