The Gates Foundation’s sudden reversal to end racial exclusion for its college-aid initiative should spur the IRS to exercise its authority and advise nonprofits across the country that their tax-exempt status is in jeopardy if they continue with similar DEI programs, American Alliance for Equal Rights President Edward Blum wrote in a guest column for The Wall Street Journal.

At issue, Blum wrote, is that the Gates Scholarship was limited to high school seniors who had to be “from at least one of the following ethnicities: African-American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian & Pacific Islander American, and/or Hispanic American.”

Blum’s Alliance for Equal Rights filed a formal complaint with the IRS over the foundation’s tax-exempt status given that “the scholarship’s restriction constituted invidious racial discrimination in violation of federal law, IRS regulations and longstanding Supreme Court precedent.”

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