Thursday, March 15, 2012

Check out those charitable organizations

The IRS has announced, in News Release 2012-34, the creation of an online search tool to get information about exempt organizations. Unfortunately, if all you have is the name, this might not be too useful. A search for "American Red Cross" yielded 21,146 hits and "American Cancer Society" yielded 34,931. Unfortunately, adding Atlanta, GA (the location of its headquarters) to the ACS search still provided 130 hits. The ACS was 4th on that shorter list but what if it had been 97th?

Maybe you better get its tax ID number from any charitable organization you have doubts about. A search with that number should yield one hit.

The search tool itself is accessible here.

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