An affiliate of the nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, will remain eligible to receive contributions via the Combined Federal Campaign, reports The Washington Post in its Federal Eye blog.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, had sought to remove the Acorn Institute and other Acorn-related entities from the list of groups eligible for donations in the U.S. government’s annual workplace charity drive.

But John Berry, head of the federal Office of Personnel Management, said in a letter to Mr. Grassley that the institute was legally separate from Acorn and unconnected to the parts of the umbrella group that have been linked to alleged voter-registration fraud and to guerrilla videos in which Acorn staff members appeared to encourage tax evasion and prostitution.

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