Charitable Registration Guide.

Find every place you are required to register before asking the public for money, and get registered there, because soliciting where you are not registered is a common and surprising exposure.

In Register and Adopt the Policies You Are Required to Have, after confirming corporate standing.

Map where you actually fundraise. Every place you actively ask the public for money: direct appeals, events, grant solicitations, and online appeals that reach people in specific states

For each place, confirm whether registration is required before you solicit there. The rules and thresholds differ and change, so confirm the current requirement with that state; do not assume

Register where required, and put each registration’s renewal on your compliance calendar, because they renew on their own schedules

If you have been soliciting unregistered

If you have fundraised for a while in places you were required to register and did not, that gap may have become a live exposure with back filings or penalties. Get a nonprofit accountant or an attorney to scope it before you file, so you fix it in the right order.

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