Harvard Professor’s Foundation Revises Tax Return Over Error
July 28, 2009
A charity headed by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the noted Harvard University professor, is filing amended 2007 tax papers to correct a grant-reporting error, ProPublica reports.
Mr. Gates’s Inkwell Foundation mistakenly reported $11,000 in compensation to members of his and the charity’s staff members as grants. The error came to light amid the avalanche of news-media coverage of the prominent professor’s mistaken arrest July 16 at his home in Cambridge, Mass.
Mr. Gates is also a member of the board of directors of ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative-news Web site.
