Understand how trusts, millages, and appropriations are each really won and kept, so you choose from knowledge rather than from the one you happen to have heard of.
The first step of choosing. For each kind, learn and note what it takes, what it pays, and what it demands after, in your situation.
An institutional relationship, often a family or community trust, won through a real relationship and usually a proposal. The lightest legal load, though gift terms warrant a look.
A line in a government budget, won through legislative relationships and a request. Asking a government for money is lobbying, which a tax-exempt organization has legal limits on, so counsel is required.
A dedicated tax, won through a public or governing-body process, often a ballot. Campaigning for a ballot measure is governed by strict rules on what your organization itself may do, and getting them wrong can cost your tax-exempt standing, so counsel is required.
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