hi I'm Belinda Whitfield of Whitfield
and associates and I have been preparing
501c3 applications for about 15 years
now and I will be honest with you the
first time that I prepared my 501c3
application for my first client I was a
bit confused going through all of the
IRS instructions in publication five
five seven and you may have downloaded
it from the website you realize there's
a lot of instructions that you need to
go through and I'll tell you some of
those questions that are on Form 10 23
can be quite confusing and leave you
scratching your head trying to figure
out okay how do you respond to these
different questions so I'll tell you
that first application that I sent in
yeah I did my best and it did come back
with some additional questions acts but
I'll tell you I learned from that
experience and over time I managed to
put together an amazing set of templates
that we're actually using on a day to
day basis when we prepare applications
for our clients and so I've put together
those templates in the form of a sample
501c3 application kit so that you can
use when it comes time for you to
prepare your application especially if
you're trying to do it yourself and save
yourself some time so I'll tell you
what's included in that kit first of all
you're going to get an actual 501c3
application that was sent to the
Internal Revenue Service and was
approved with no questions asked that's
right you're also going to get not only
that form 10:23 but in that particular
501c3 application that went to the IRS
there were a number of a different
attachments that we included in that kit
and a lot of the things that we include
are not necessarily things that the IRS
lists and outlines in their instructions
but these are things that we know that
they have requested from some of our
clients in the past so we automatically
send them so we know that those
questions won't come back in the future
so we've got that in the kit you take
that sample kit sample 501c3 application
and you
go through it page by page and use it as
a guide to put your application together
in addition to that you're actually
going to get our Microsoft Word
templates that we use the actual
templates that we use every day when
we're preparing applications for our
clients you're going to use those and
edit those and customize them to your
particular organization in addition to
that we have templates in Microsoft
Excel to help you put together the
supporting information for the
financials area of the application and
on top of that we've actually put
together in Microsoft Word templates to
answer some of those confusing questions
that are included on form 10:23 also
you've got templates for the bylaws and
a number of the other things that we
actually include in the 501c3
application so all you have to do is go
through it and customize it and finally
as an added bonus we've actually
completed about 80% of your form 10:23
that's right you're going to get the
form
10:23 with all of the answers or at
least 80% of the responses to a lot of
the questions on the 501c3 application
so for the most part we've done the
majority of the work for you all you
have to do is customize it add your
organization's names and addresses of
your board members drop in your
financial information just kind of
review the questions that we've answered
for you and make sure that the response
is applied and then finally go through
and edit that narrative description of
your programs and activity and I'll tell
you you can get that application out the
door very very quickly so go ahead
select the 501c3 kit that best is your
organization download it save yourself a
lot of time sweat and energy putting
that application together and do it
yourself so whether you choose to do it
yourself or either hire a pro let's just
go ahead and get that puppy out the door
because at WIPP building associates we
get 501c3
patience done
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