I need to know what legal avenues to travel in order to obtain nonprofit status. I already have the design, website, and everything else in order. Do I contact an estate planning attorney or someone else?
It’s not very hard to obtain nonprofit status. You can do it at the federal or state level. There’s some desire to have one process for both, but I don’t believe that’s in place at this time. The process for state nonprofit status probably varies, but you should be able to google “nonprofit status” and your state and find out how to get the forms. I did it a few years ago for a statewide organization that I belong to, and it took me less than eight hours of work over a couple of months.



