[wplug-board] 501c3

[Pat Barron]

Thanks for sharing your experience, Joe!  I agree with your assessment.  
Even if we can find an attorney to do the work pro bono (and not charge 
us for their time), the filing fees are a "hard" expense (i.e., someone 
has to come up with that money, in cash).  At the moment, we really 
can't even afford to buy the banners, unless we can get a grant (or find 
a generous benefactor) to pay for it....

--Pat.

On 04/05/2012 4:39 PM, Joseph Prostko wrote:
> To be quite honest, we really don't have enough money to pay for a
> 501(c)(3) at the moment.  Generally you file for a state non-profit
> and 501(c)(3) at the same time as well, as it smoothens out the
> process a bit.  To give you an idea, Burgh Bees (the other group I'm
> on the board of directors of) has been a state NPO for several years,
> as due to lack of money at the time we filed at the state level only.
>   We can do it now that we're bringing in much more money, but even we
> are trying to find a cheap way to do 501(c)(3).  The best quote we
> found for somebody who wouldn't do it pro-bono was 1,500 dollars, plus
> the 850 dollars worth of filing fees (which is a mandatory expense).
> The average quote was around 3,000 dollars plus filing fees.  That
> said, we may have found somebody to do it pro-bono plus the filing
> fees, but that isn't concrete at all yet, so I can't elaborate
> further.  So yeah, best case we need to have an extra 900 dollars
> lying around allocated just for this, so I don't really see it being
> possible at the moment.
>
> - joe
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:52 PM, JUDI GALARDI<judigalardi at verizon.net>  wrote:
>> If I can find an attny to help fill out the 501c3, should we go for it?
>> We could ask for more grants that way.
>> Judi
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