[crw-talk] CRW By-Laws circa 2018, Now By-LAWS 2017 as sent to the IRS to pursue non-profit status and Follow Up. And some visioning! NOW Possible Non-Profit Reinstatement

[raaschb at charter.net]

Aaron, am hoping you can post this to the newsletter email list. Thx.

 

I saw this posting from Kristine Clough this evening on the CRW talk mail
server archives. I am still not RELIABIBLY receiving email from CRW talk.
Maybe I'm the only one, dunno.

 

>From Kris's server email: According to the information provided, we became
eligible for 501(c)(3) on Sep 27, 2019. Bob's add, true, received by the CRW
on this date, 9-27-2017.

   

Our revocation Date is 2/15/22.

We were posted on the list  on 5/11/22.(IRS list)

The end of October 2023 is the 15 month cutoff.  

Therefore, we will most likely have to follow Section 6.

 

Auto-Revocation List

 

Organizations whose federal tax exempt status was automatically revoked for
not filing a Form 990-series return or notice for three consecutive years.
Important note: Just because an organization appears on this list, it does
not mean the organization is currently revoked, as they may have been
reinstated.  

Bob,s add- as far as I know, the club has not sent forward any request for
reinstatement.  If the club president or treasurer has sent in the required
data, please inform the membership. 

 

Exemption Type: 501(c)(3)

 

Exemption Reinstatement Date:

 

Revocation Date: 02-15-2022

 

Revocation Posting Date: 05-11-2022

 

 

CRW's EIN: 82-1153646

 

Kris, 

I want to thank you so very much for sleuthing thru the IRS site and meeting
for coffee to discuss the possibility of possible reinstatement process. 

The reinstatement can still be sought after under the 15 month rule, if data
submitted by end of this month (Oct, 31,2023).  Not a gold rush find, but
close if we take advantage of the opportunity afforded by the IRS.

 

To the membership, to be exact, the 501 (c)(3) IRS designation exemption was
initially granted to Coulee Region Woodturners, INC on September 17, 2019,
notification to club (Coulee Region Woodturners, INC)  received on 9-27-2017
letter 947.

I am attaching the official IRS revocation, that same exact data Kris
details in her email from the IRS website, under Tax Exempt Organization
Search, saved as a pdf. 

 

For those who may be interested, this IRS link
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:d1a55c1a-48e8-4a9f-85e0-54409
12dc59f   provides the roadmap document to follow, IF the  club membership
desires non-profit status as several members have lobbied for. To reiterate,
there are many benefits, some of which would be enjoyed down the road as the
club moves forward in growth and participates in community engagement
activities that show the local population what this club has to offer, much
of which have been previously discussed over the course of the last several
months.

I might add, club membership in 2017 felt the non-profits status worthwhile,
approved expenditure of significant treasury dollars in the effort,  and
lots of work was done by immediate past president Adrian Novak on behalf of
the club to make this happen. 

I have not digested the contents of this IRS document, find it difficult to
fully understand. If anyone in the club has expertise in IRS speak or has
expertise in maintaining a 501 (c)(3), status, please, join the fray.

 

*******To be clear, as a member in legal good standing, I am requesting the
CRW board call an emergency meeting ASAP, and of course invite the
membership at large as well as is prudent and customary.  Due to time
constraints, a zoom meeting has the most logic, even though face to face
would be more appropriate.   As the mailserver can not be relied on, please
consider sending the notice thru the Newsletter subscriber list and the
mailserver,  CRW-talk at woodturner.com. 

Special meeting provision is specified in the club's ByLaws, Article VIII,
meetings. 

 

Agenda: discuss the current 501 c 3 status, solicit the club members pulse
on this, accept a motion  from the floor to either seek non-profit status
reinstatement or let it die.  *******  

 

If decision at this emergency meeting is made to seek reinstatement, some
overtime efforts are needed to meet the deadline of October 31, 2023. Know,
there is no guarantee the IRS will reinstate the status. 

If club membership desires reinstatement, the club needs to identify
legitimate reasons the club has not adhered to require IRS parameters to
maintain the status. As stated in the past, only an E-post card was required
annually to maintain non-profit status. Club treasury data for the last 3
years will likely be required in addition to other data as requested.  

Please know, the Covid 19 country wide shut may have had some significant
impact on the initial lapse, but we are well beyond the Covid 19 effect, to
blame the club's noncompliance on.  

 

Sincerely,  

Bob Raasch, member Coulee Region Woodturners. 

 

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