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<P class=textBodyBlack><SPAN id=byLine></SPAN>It's most likely the nonprofits aren't aware of the Monday deadline that only applies to groups that report $25,000 or less in income, excluding churches. Those organizations may not find out until Jan. 1, 2011, when they're notified they have to pay taxes on donations they thought were exempt. And it could be months before their nonprofit status is restored.</P>
<P class=textBodyBlack><SPAN id=byLine></SPAN>Congress required the form, called a 990-N, when it amended the tax code three years ago and groups with a fiscal year ending Dec. 31 had until Monday to meet the deadline.</P>
<P class=textBodyBlack><SPAN id=byLine></SPAN>The Urban Institute's National Center for Charitable Statistics, which conducts economic and social policy research, estimated Friday that 214,000 nonprofit organizations haven't filed the form as required.</P>
<P class=textBodyBlack><SPAN id=byLine></SPAN>Tom Pollak, program director for the center, said organizations that lose their tax-exempt status are no longer eligible to receive tax-deductible donations and are not likely to be awarded grants.</P>
<P class=textBodyBlack><SPAN id=byLine></SPAN>Donors who give to the organizations that lose their status will be able to receive tax-deductions on gifts until January because the revocations won't be public until then.</P>
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