Every charity in NJ is required to file an application with the NJ Charities Registration Section. This includes PTAs and PTOs who have 501 (c)3 status. After the initial registration, you will have to pay an annual fee and provide copies of you 990 tax forms by December of each year. By doing this, you will be listed in an online directory (see above for link) of compliant charities.
You must do this for ANY type of fundraising in the state of NJ. Hope this helps!
Commision charged with overseeing charitable/nonprofit organizations currently registered to conduct legalized games of chance in NJ (i.e., Bingo & Raffles)
Here's the main site - check out the forms and especially the instructions for the initial application. www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/lgccc.htm
I'm from Texas, but I live in New Jersey. Its a "you can take the girl out of Texas, but not the Texas out of the girl" kinda thing.
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The IRS handles the 501c applications, validity of charitable contributions, and income tax issues. But most rules that affect charities are state laws. Your signon name is "TexGirl", but what you are saying doesn't sound like any Texas requirement. (Rules for raffles in Texas are summarized at www.oag.state.tx.us/AG_Publications/txts/raffle.shtml)
Let us know what state you are from and some of us may be able to better answer your question.
(You may also want let your state show on your profile information.)
We had an incident with the application for a raffle licence being submitted to the state along with the names of our membership. The PTO membership had not been notified of the application, in fact not even the entire Executive Board had been notified and no vote was taken. Now after a big blow up and the involved parties being forced to withdraw the application, an issue has been raised suggesting that we need to obtain a Charitable Registration no matter what type of fundraising we do. Does anyone know if this is true?
