Private Benefit

Private Benefit is a legal doctrine in nonprofit law that refers to an impermissible advantage conferred on individuals or entities not substantially related to the organization’s charitable purpose, distinguishing it from permissible public benefits that align with the organization’s tax-exempt mission.

Publications

8.6K

Citations

136

Authors

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Nonprofit Law

Children

Benefit To InsidersDonor-advised Fund RestrictionsEconomic Benefits To Private PartiesExcessive Insider CompensationGrantmaking RestrictionsPrivate Benefit TestPrivate Foundation RulesPrivate Foundation Self-dealingTax Exemption Revocation

Publications

Motives for Private Income Transfers

Donald Cox · Journal of Political Economy · 1987 · 1.2K citations

Public Affairs, Economics, Public Finance +11

Private benefits from control of public corporations

Michael J. Barclay, Clifford G. Holderness · Journal of Financial Economics · 1989 · 1.2K citations

Management, Corporate Governance, Public Administration +12

The divided welfare state: the battle over public and private social benefits in the United States

Choice Reviews Online · 2003 · 640 citations

Public Affairs, Public Policy, Social Policy +15

The Fable of the Bees: Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits

G. C. Moore Smith, Bernard Mandeville · The Modern Language Review · 1925 · 423 citations

Public Affairs, Economics, Philanthropy +4

The Ubiquity of the Benefit Principle

Richard A. Epstein · eYLS (Yale Law School) · 1994 · 297 citations · Full text

Public Affairs, Economics, Benefit-cost Analysis +11

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Authors

136

MJ
Michael J. Barclay
University of Rochester, United States
4 publications · 1.5K citations
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CG
Clifford G. Holderness
Boston College, United States
4 publications · 1.5K citations
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Steven Shavell
National Bureau of Economic Research, United States
4 publications · 589 citations
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EB
Evangelos Benos
Bank of England, United Kingdom
3 publications · 237 citations
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MS
Michael S. Weisbach
National Bureau of Economic Research, United States
3 publications · 237 citations
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Institutions

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Venues

SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 5 publications · 145 citations
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National Tax Journal
NTJ · 4 publications · 324 citations
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Repository · 3 publications · 86 citations
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The Journal of Legal Studies
JLS · 3 publications · 518 citations
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Journal of Economic Psychology
2 publications · 100 citations
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