FORMATION ✓ Every figure sourced

California Nonprofit Corporation
fees and filing deadlines

Formed at the state level like any corporation, but with no shareholders. State formation and federal tax exemption are two separate things: forming a nonprofit does not make it tax exempt. Exemption is a separate IRS application.

To start

Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California
Articles of Incorporation (not providing for shares)
$30
stock corporation) $100.00  Statement and Designation by Foreign Corporation (qualification of a foreign nonstock, nonprofit corporation). $ 30.00  Amended Statement by Foreign Corporation $ 30.00  Certific

Every year after that

FilingFeeWhen it is due
Statement of Information (Form SI-100)$20Due by the anniversary day in the calendar month the business was formed, every second year.

About $10 a year to stay in good standing at today’s fees, counting only recurring filings and spreading anything filed less often across the years between. One-time filings and taxes are excluded.

Where each figure comes from

Statement of Information (Form SI-100)
$20

Due by the anniversary day in the calendar month the business was formed, every second year.

$ 30.00  Statement of Information: – Foreign Limited Liability Company (Form LLC-12) – initial or biennial statement - fully completed $ 20.00 – Foreign Limited Liability Company (Form LLC-12NC) – biennial statement - no change $ 20.00 – Amended statement (Form LLC-12): Submis

Get your own dates

The deadlines above are the rules. Your actual dates depend on when you form, so the calendar is built from your formation date — free, no account.

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Other structures in California

Limited Liability CompanyCorporationLimited PartnershipLimited Liability Partnership

The same structure elsewhere

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