Pennsylvania Code § 15-5550

Devises, bequests and gifts after certain fundamental changes.
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A devise, bequest or gift to be effective in the future, in trust or otherwise, to or for a nonprofit corporation which has:
(1) changed its purposes;
(2) sold, leased away or exchanged all or substantially all its property and assets;
(3) been converted into a business corporation;
(4) become a party to a consolidation or a division;
(5) become a party to a merger which it did not survive; or
(6) been dissolved;
after the execution of the document containing the devise, bequest or gift and before the nonprofit corporation acquires a vested interest in the devise, bequest or gift shall be effective only as a court having jurisdiction over the assets may order under 20 Pa.C.S. Ch. 77 (relating to trusts) or other applicable provisions of law.

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