Which application do I file?
Form 1023, 1023-EZ, 1024, Form 8976 or no application at all.
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Find your exemption application, check Form 1023-EZ eligibility, see your 27-month deadline and test public support, lobbying limits and donation receipts. Everything runs in your browser; nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
Form 1023-EZ eligibility
All 34 worksheet questions, with the dollar tests built in.
27-month deadline
The last day to apply and keep exemption back to your formation date.
Public support test
Schedule A Part II: are you publicly supported?
501(h) lobbying limits
Your lobbying and grassroots limits under the expenditure test.
Donation receipt checker
Deductible amount, acknowledgment and quid pro quo disclosure.