501(c)(3) Applications
The good news is you don't have to struggle with the process of starting 501(c)(3) nonprofits. You shouldn't have to. You are establishing a nonprofit to better this world, not to spend all your time completing stacks of paper work. You are looking for answers and a solution to get your non-profit set up and running, and that's exactly what we do. Whether we can provide a few free answers to your questions, vital 501(c)(3) advice, or take over the entire process of incorporation and establishing tax exempt status, we can make your life a little easier.
I am an attorney who handles non-profit organizations from incorporation to 501(c)(3) status (or other 501(c) status) and counseling ongoing operations. I mention this because it might be important to you when you make the decision to hire an experienced consultant and expert, rather than a form processing service, or someone who is not familiar with the process. I have a 100% success rate in establishing 501(c)(3) non-profits with tax exempt status before the Internal Revenue Service. The success rate of nonprofit organizations attempting to do this on their own is far lower. “501c3 applications filed by lawyers are 10 times more likely to be approved than those filed by the organizations themselves” according to an IRS Agent, at the IRS Processing Center, Convington, KY.
Now, the bad and the ugly. Beware, you get what you pay for. "Incorporation" or "paralegal form processing" services leave you in legal limbo by only partially completing the startup process for you, or failing to get past the IRS review process. Some of these services don't even prepare the necessary documents for your incorporation, complete tax exempt status, and compliance with the law. I have helped numerous nonprofit corporations out of this legal limbo, which I assure results in a much more costly, in time, money, effort, and lost opportunity. And these paralegal and incorporation services do not provide ongoing support in the years to come, as I do.
I am an attorney who handles non-profit organizations from incorporation to 501(c)(3) status (or other 501(c) status) and counseling ongoing operations. I mention this because it might be important to you when you make the decision to hire an experienced consultant and expert, rather than a form processing service, or someone who is not familiar with the process. I have a 100% success rate in establishing 501(c)(3) non-profits with tax exempt status before the Internal Revenue Service. The success rate of nonprofit organizations attempting to do this on their own is far lower. “501c3 applications filed by lawyers are 10 times more likely to be approved than those filed by the organizations themselves” according to an IRS Agent, at the IRS Processing Center, Convington, KY.
Now, the bad and the ugly. Beware, you get what you pay for. "Incorporation" or "paralegal form processing" services leave you in legal limbo by only partially completing the startup process for you, or failing to get past the IRS review process. Some of these services don't even prepare the necessary documents for your incorporation, complete tax exempt status, and compliance with the law. I have helped numerous nonprofit corporations out of this legal limbo, which I assure results in a much more costly, in time, money, effort, and lost opportunity. And these paralegal and incorporation services do not provide ongoing support in the years to come, as I do.
Randall S. Lewis, Esq.
Attorney and Counselor at Law
1 Falconer Street, P.O. Box 517
Frewsburg, New York 14738
C: 716-720-8269
randall@rlewislaw.net
Attorney and Counselor at Law
1 Falconer Street, P.O. Box 517
Frewsburg, New York 14738
C: 716-720-8269
randall@rlewislaw.net