Stephen Clarke
Ernst & Young LLP
Exempt Organization Tax Services

Since 2014, Stephen Clarke has been a managing director of the Exempt Organization Tax Services division at Ernst & Young LLP, where he provides tax advisory and compliance services to tax-exempt healthcare organizations and other nonprofits across the country.  Before joining Ernst & Young, Mr. Clarke was a tax law specialist, project manager and guidance group manager with the IRS Exempt Organizations division. At the IRS, Clarke served as the project manager for the 2008 redesign of Form 990, the information return filed annually by charities and other exempt organizations, and also served on the team that developed Form 990, Schedule H.

Prior to joining the IRS in 2005, Mr. Clarke worked as an attorney with Gammon & Grange, P.C., a law firm in northern Virginia, where he served tax-exempt organizations, radio broadcasters and trust and estate clients since 1996.

Throughout his career he has worked with nonprofit organizations, helping them to understand and comply with tax and other regulatory requirements while also helping them to meet their charitable goals. He has served on the board of Good Samaritan Advocates, a nonprofit organization providing pro bono legal services to low-income persons, since 2004.   He also serves on the board of directors of the TEGE Council and the planning committee of the American Health Lawyers Association's annual Tax Issues for Health Care Organizations conference.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wheaton College in Illinois and his juris doctorate from the College of William and Mary School of Law. He is an active member of the Virginia bar.