There is a lot of confusion about whether Classical Conversations Communities should be using churches for their Community Day activities. Background: Unlike most homeschool programs and co-ops, Classical Conversations Communities are usually not nonprofit organizations. Instead they are for-profit businesses…
A homeschool leader asked me recently, “Who holds nonprofit organizations accountable? Is it the IRS?” While there are some issues, such as taxes and tax-exempt status, where the IRS has some oversight of nonprofits, the true watchdogs of nonprofit organizations…
Carol Topp, the Homeschool CPA is sometimes asked if a homeschool family can be a charity. Sometimes a homeschool spouse wants to set up a business and hire their spouse to homeschool their children. Can this be done? Are there…
While helping a homeschool organization in Washington, I found a nice 44 page book from WA state on forming a nonprofit. I really liked the flowchart on page 5. It has steps to take at the State level, the…
A homeschool parent is launching a new homeschool program. Like many nonprofits, she needs some money to start up. The main concern for our group at the moment are funds for filing (for nonprofit incorporation and 501c3 tax exempt status).…