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Recent Blog Posts
Get your Homeschool Board Training videos. Sale ends March 31
In the month of March 2023 the Board Training for Homeschool Groups video set is on sale for $25 (usually $40)! This is to celebrate our Facebook group I am a Homeschool Group Leader surpassing 3,000 members! Many homeschool leaders have never served on a nonprofit board before, so we saw the need to train…
Homeschool Board Training videos on sale for March 2023!
We are so pleased to announce that HomeschoolCPA.com and HomeschoolLeaders.com have released a set of three videos to train homeschool board members! In the month of March 2023 the set that usually sells for $40 will be reduced to $25! This is to celebrate our Facebook group I am a Homeschool Group Leader surpassing 3,000…
Homeschool leaders: You are not responsible for homeschooling other peoples’ children!
We seem to be at a crossroads in our 2-day tutorial program. Approximately 30 families, in our second year. We are planning for next year, securing teachers and trying to make the class offerings. We are stuck at who we are as a group. Are we an academic group, offering most of the classes that…
Advice on being a homeschool business or a nonprofit group
I haven’t found anything that exactly explains what I’m allowed to do. I have a small Homeschool group. I set up everything so parents chip in money to pay for supplies. I also pay for all of the field trips and they pay me back. I soon will be fronting the entire cost of the…
Homeschool Group FAQ
There are many reasons why homeschool groups form and operate as nonprofit organizations rather than businesses.
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Tiny groups are more informal, some don’t collect any money and most don’t have a formal board like a typical nonprofit homeschool group. Learn More
In this short podcast episode (12 minutes) Carol Topp, CPA explains the benefits of forming your homeschool group as a nonprofit corporation and why a leader would want limited liability protection. Listen to the Podcast
You might be surprised at how simple it is to form a nonprofit organization. Here’s what it takes
Your homeschool group may be able to “self-declare” 501c tax exempt status and not officially apply. Here’s what to do
The IRS Form 990-N is a simple, online form that all nonprofit tax exempt organizations with annual gross revenues of less than $50,000 must file every year. Read Instructions
Some homeschool groups look a lot like schools. They offer a full curriculum, there are teachers teaching classes, they rent space to conduct the classes, etc. But are they “schools?” See Answer
Churches may be at risk for having their property tax exemption affected if they host a business. Read the FAQ
I state pretty clearly in my book Paying Workers in a Homeschool Organization that teachers in a homeschool program should be treated as employees not Independent Contractors.
Here’s why. Read Full Article
