The gravy train is grinding to a halt for more than 1,600 delinquent nonprofits in New York, The Post has learned.
State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman plans to cancel the registration of 1,649 charities — cutting off their ability to raise private funds and get taxpayer-funded government grants in New York — because they have not filed required paperwork with his Charities Bureau.
Letters will go out this week to the nonprofits, telling them that they have 20 days to submit the required reports before losing their right to raise cash.
The list of nonprofits obtained by The Post includes the Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now, known as FFAWN.
The Post has reported that the charity failed to submit federal tax returns and that hundreds of thousands of dollars — including money for college scholarships — had gone missing.
FFAWN began paying the college scholarships only after The Post’s reports.
“Attorney General Schneiderman believes there must be one set of rules for everyone, and that those rules must be aggressively enforced,” said James Freedland, the AG’s spokesman.
Other groups on the list have are not based in New York but have raised funds here, such as the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, which has not submitted a tax return to the attorney general since 2009.
Jennifer Abbrecht, rep for Louisiana SPCA, said the organization asked for an extension on its federal tax return, filed it in May, will send it to Schneiderman, and will look into why the state paperwork wasn’t filed in time.