This July 27, 2026 issue of the Navigator News Update surveys the federal, workforce, tax, and state developments most likely to affect nonprofit organizations this week. Federal highlights include a court ruling blocking arbitrary grant terminations, OMB’s proposed rewrite of federal grant regulations, a federal judge’s order forcing EPA to comply with a prior ruling restoring environmental justice grants, and fast-approaching FEMA and HUD funding deadlines. Human resources updates cover the EEOC’s rescission of its affirmative-action safe harbor, a Supreme Court ruling accelerating Temporary Protected Status terminations, and shifting independent-contractor and joint-employer standards. IRS and finance news spans a Form 990 overhaul targeting government-grant transparency, rising tax-exempt audits, new executive-compensation excise tax relief, and guidance on cash reserves. State developments include Medicaid work-requirement litigation, budget cuts in North Carolina, Missouri, and Austin, Florida’s nonprofit law overhaul, and new compliance laws in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and Tennessee.
