Eve currently (since 5/1/2019) practices law as Of Counsel at Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg, LLP, a Washington, DC firm specializing in nonprofit organizations. In the preceding 30 years, she operated her own law firm, a national tax and compliance practice dedicated to the nonprofit sector (BAM Law Office LLC). Residing in Minneapolis, Eve from both firms has always worked with nonprofit organizations (NPOs) throughout the country, primarily assisting clients with: tax-exemption qualification, overall exempt organizations (EO) tax planning, non-federal tax compliance (chiefly concerning state law mandates and federal grant reporting obligations), and best management practices. Through 2019, she had represented more than 1,100 EOs before the IRS on audit examinations, status issues, ruling requests, and exemption qualification. Eve equally enjoys IRS controversy work and assisting clients with finding and implementing practical approaches to their tax planning needs or structural and collaborative issues, as well as governance challenges.

Eve also teaches NPOs and their advisors about the world of EO compliance, doing so from her teaching consultancy, Eve Rose Borenstein, LLC. Her love of designing and presenting seminars on “tax rules” is evident, and she is well-known for her Form 990 preparation courses (Eve’s two full-day Form 990 courses were licensed to the AICPA for use in the 2013-2019 CPE-years). This year, Eve developed and introduced 14 webinars on the 990 – 10 of those encompassing a comprehensive “foundational series” (and three for those who have already attained “990-Ninja” status!)

Eve’s teaching has been informed not only by her familiarity with federal tax precepts and other arenas of NPOs’ compliance needs, but by her extensive professional committee involvement. She was a key private-sector participant with the IRS in the preceding decade’s redesign of the Form 990; is an active participant in the American Bar Association’s Tax Section EO Committee; liaisons to the AICPA’s EO Tax Resource Panel; and is Co-Chair of the TEGE Exempt Organizations Council’s TIC-TAQ Committee (the latter brings EO tax advisors into colloquy with the IRS EO Division Director and Chief Counsel (EEE)’s Officials three times a year). In championing the sector’s goal of compliance without complexity, Eve works tirelessly to bring feedback to the IRS on exempt organization forms, procedural issues, and need for improved guidance and regulations. Her goal has always been to ensure that “NPOs (have the tools to) do it right the first time!”

Among the many honors Eve has received in the last decade are her presentation of invited testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight in their July 2012 hearing on the IRS’ oversight and use of the Form 990 (she was introduced as “Queen of the 990”!), and being honored with the 2018 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award by the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section.