MARY TOVELLA DOWLING, ESQ.

General Counsel

Mary Tovella Dowling is a Partner of the For Purpose Law firm, chairs the firm’s Estate Planning Practice Area, and co-chairs the firm’s Nonprofit Practice Area. She holds a BS, cum laude, in Business Management from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and a JD, cum laude, from Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Her practice focuses on providing full-service representation and outside general counsel services advising on a full range of nonprofit and tax-exempt legal issues, with an emphasis on federal, state and local tax laws, including entity formation, applications for federal and state exemption, unrelated business income planning, compliance with public support tests, property tax exemption, nonprofit corporate governance, contracts, joint ventures and corporate compliance.