Sep 17, 2026 · 48 min · 18 segments
Want to learn how to start a nonprofit, find nonprofit funding, and use AI for grant writing? Coach K sits down with Blake Nathan to discuss building an organization with the funding, partnerships…
Blake NathanGuest
Coach KHost
One, they want to save on taxes, either from their personal income or their business income.

Number two, you have a life experience that something happened to you, positively impacted your life or negatively impacted your life.

If you're a for-profit business owner and you don't have a nonprofit, you're doing yourself a disservice.

We call it corporate responsibility where they have a foundation that's attached to the for-profit.

You also have celebrities, influencers, entertainers, people that are certain income levels.

They're creating foundations because like if I got to pay this money to Uncle Sam anyway, I might as well donate the money to my nonprofit.

Why not just donate that money to my nonprofit and I can do my philanthropic endeavors

It's you're doing yourself a disservice because you feel like if I'm only giving back to the community, that's me being a good Samaritan.

How do I lower my tax liability? So people, number one, they create nonprofits because they want to lower their tax liability.

Like when we was growing up as kids, like we had access to after school programming.
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One, they want to save on taxes, either from their personal income or their business income.

Number two, you have a life experience that something happened to you, positively impacted your life or negatively impacted your life.

If you're a for-profit business owner and you don't have a nonprofit, you're doing yourself a disservice.

We call it corporate responsibility where they have a foundation that's attached to the for-profit.

You also have celebrities, influencers, entertainers, people that are certain income levels.

They're creating foundations because like if I got to pay this money to Uncle Sam anyway, I might as well donate the money to my nonprofit.

Why not just donate that money to my nonprofit and I can do my philanthropic endeavors

It's you're doing yourself a disservice because you feel like if I'm only giving back to the community, that's me being a good Samaritan.

How do I lower my tax liability? So people, number one, they create nonprofits because they want to lower their tax liability.

Like when we was growing up as kids, like we had access to after school programming.