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 health care organizations and other nonprofits across the country.
Before joining Ernst & Young, 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. He also served on the team that developed Form 990, Schedule H.
Before joining the IRS in 2005, Clarke was 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 starting in 1996.
Throughout his career he has worked with nonprofit organizations, helping them to understand and comply with tax and other regulatory requirements and to meet their charitable goals. Since 2004, he has served on the board of Good Samaritan Advocates, a nonprofit organization providing pro bono legal services to low-income persons. He also serves on the board of directors of the TEGE Exempt Organizations Council.
He earned his bachelor's 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.