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The answer to that question is remarkably simple but surprising to many: No one owns a nonprofit corporation. To understand why that is so, let’s compare nonprofit corporations to for-profit or business corporations. Business Corporations Imagine you buy 100 shares of common stock in a corporation on the New York…

The limited liability company is a relatively new form of business entity, with most state statutes adopted in the 1990s. In just a few years, they overtook the corporation as the most common structure for new businesses.  A reason for the LLC’s popularity is that the it combines some of…