GOP mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa's group bills itself a charity despite losing tax

Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa’s crime prevention group, the Guardian Angels , is soliciting donations while portraying itself as a tax-exempt charity — even though it was stripped of that status years ago amid tax issues and legal troubles involving the organization’s longtime treasurer, according to a Daily News review of federal and state records.

The Guardian Angels, which Sliwa founded in 1979 and still controls as CEO, hasn’t filed a 990 Form with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service since 2019, the IRS’s publicly available nonprofit database shows. In that database, the group’s legal business name is listed as Alliance of Guardian Angels, Inc.

The 990 Form is the equivalent of a tax return for a charitable organization, and due to the Guardian Angels’ failure to file 9