It's not hard for any 501c3 to afford an accountant. Since it costs a significant amount of money to even get through all the paperwork to GET 501c3 status, the organization obviously has the income to do so. On top of that, being as they are a 501c3, they can probably negotiate a deal with a local accountant to give them a reduced fee, writing off the remainder as an in-kind donation. So leave the whining at home. If you want to be a 501c3, buck up.

It's not hard to file that little card. Unless your 501c3 is actually defunct. Which is the purpose of the little card. To cleanup the ranks of the 501c3s to just those organizations that ARE alive, and cut down on the fraud.

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