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          purposes.  “Charitable” is further defined in section                       
          1.501(c)(3)-1(d)(2), Income Tax Regs., as follows:                          
               The term “charitable” is used in section 501(c)(3) in its              
               generally accepted legal sense and is, therefore, not to be            
               construed as limited by the separate enumeration in section            
               501(c)(3) of other tax-exempt purposes which may fall within           
               the broad outlines of “charity” as developed by judicial               
               decisions.  Such term includes:  Relief of the poor and                
               distressed * * * lessening of the burdens of Government;               
               To operate “exclusively” for exempt purposes does not mean             
          that there must be an absence of nonexempt purposes.  Quality               
          Auditing Co. v. Commissioner, supra at 504; Nationalist Movement            
          v. Commissioner, supra at 576.  A single activity might be                  
          directed to both an exempt and a nonexempt purpose.  Our inquiry            
          must determine whether the nonexempt purpose is incidental and              
          not substantial.  If the nonexempt purpose is substantial, the              
          organization will not satisfy the operational test regardless of            
          the number or importance of truly exempt purposes.  See Better              
          Bus. Bureau v. United States, 326 U.S. 279, 283 (1945); Am.                 
          Campaign Acad. v. Commissioner, 92 T.C. 1053, 1065 (1989); Church           
          of Scientology v. Commissioner, 83 T.C. 381 (1984), affd. 823               
          F.2d 1310, 1315 (9th Cir. 1987); see also sec. 1.501(c)(3)-                 
          1(c)(1), Income Tax Regs.                                                   
               A nonexempt purpose can arise if an organization benefits              
          private interests.  See Am. Campaign Acad. v. Commissioner, supra           
          at 1066.  Section 1.501(c)(3)-1(d)(1)(ii), Income Tax Regs.,                
          states:                                                                     






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