Robin Krause is a Partner in the firm’s Tax-Exempt Organizations department. Ms. Krause has extensive experience in the representation of public charities, private foundations, and other 501(c) organizations including social welfare organizations and trade associations. Her practice focuses on governance and tax matters, international grantmaking and operations, program-related investing, donor-advised funds, and state and federal regulatory matters. Ms. Krause also facilitates Board reviews and educational workshops on legal, tax, governance and accountability issues, provides training on lobbying activities for public charities and private foundations, and advises investment and audit committees on current issues.

Ms. Krause also advises individuals and corporations on charitable giving and philanthropic planning and represents a number of corporate foundations. Ms. Krause is recognized in the area of Tax: Not-for-Profit, Non-Profit and Tax-Exempt Organizations by The Legal 500 United States.

Ms. Krause serves as the Co-Chair of the Private Foundations Subcommittee of the Exempt Organizations Section of the American Bar Association and has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the National Center of Philanthropy and the Law at New York University. She has served on the Advisory Boards for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Guide to Mission Related Investing and Foundation Strategy Group’s Initiative on the Law of Mission Related Investing and is a member of the Board of Directors of MyFace and of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. She lectures regularly and her speaking engagements include:

• Georgetown Law Representing and Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations (2024: Donor Advised Funds and Supporting Organizations Issues and Update)
• Georgetown Law Representing and Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations (2022: Fiduciary Issues in Investments)
• King Baudouin Foundation United States Study Visits for University and Research Institutions and Arts and Cultural Organizations (May 2023: Tax-Efficient Giving in the United States)
• NYC Bar Association (2019: Alternatives to Private Foundations: Donor Advised Funds)
• Collaborative Strategies and Achieving Charitable Impact (2019)
• Advancing Foundation Archives, Advocacy, Strategies and Solutions (June 2019)

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• New York University School of Law (J.D., 1990)
• New York University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1985)
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Co-Chair, Private Foundation Sub-Committee of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association; Board Member and Secretary, Mertz Gilmore Foundation; Board Member, MyFace.

• A New Tool for Anti-Bribery Compliance Program: ISO 37001

  By Robin Krause, Jean-Claude Lanza; Seona Lee |October 2016

• Co-Author, "Demystifying Program Related Investments," New York University Conference on Tax Planning for Exempt Organizations