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Carol Topp
Homeschool mom, author and accountant. I enjoy helping homeschool leaders start and run their homeschool groups successfully.
Homeschool Board Duties
Did you know the 4 main duties of homeschool board members? They are the duty of care, loyalty, management and compliance.
Adding a football program under your homeschool group
A homeschool treasurer has several questions about tax exempt status and financial oversight of adding a football program.
Is your homeschool organization a “mutual benefit” organization? Maybe not!
Most homeschool co-ops are public benefit organizations because they serve a public good (i.e. education of children) and are not mutual benefit organizations.
Employee compensation in a homeschool group
Becky Abrams is a homeschool consultant and Executive Director of Arrows Christian Academy, a homeschool hybrid in Oregon explains her employee’s wages in a blog post titled “Paying Workers: Employee Compensation.” I think it will be helpful for those of…
Is my homeschool group required to have a 501(c)3 tax exempt status?
The homeschool co-op that I am building cannot qualify for 501(c)(7) social club because we offer classes, therefore we have an educational purpose. But are we required to have a 501(c)(3) status? We are not interested in the benefits of…
Do you have what it takes to start a homeschool hybrid?
Rebecca Foley operates a homeschool hybrid program in New York. She launched a website StartaHybridSchool.com to help share her knowledge and experience. Her blog post titled, “Do you have what it takes?” Rebecca knows that a vision to start a…
How start up homeschool groups pay people from the very beginning?
I think I have a better understanding about the logistics of starting a homeschool group after reading your books and watching your webinars, but where I am getting stuck is the development of a board. It is just me and…
Can excess supply fees be used to pay other expenses?
Our homeschool co-op charges families a registration fee to cover administrative costs and a per-class supply fees to cover supplies/materials for individual classes. This past year we have a pretty good surplus on supply fee income. Teachers ended up not…
The IRS and Cooperative Fundraising
Links to an explanation of the IRS rules regarding fundraising.