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marijarvis
Feb 11, 2014, 03:35 PM
What is the process for adding a dba to a 501(c)3? The DBA is already set up at the county level listing the parent n/f/p as the corporation. What is the process for getting the IRS to recognize it?

AK lawyer
Feb 11, 2014, 03:51 PM
If you call it a "501 (c) (3)" you are implying that you already have IRS recognition. This recognition process is not automatic; it can be quite complex actually.

You can supplement your recognition application by supplying the fact that your organization is "doing business as" some named d/b/a. I don't know if this is necessary, however.

joypulv
Feb 11, 2014, 03:53 PM
As far as anyone I know who was a dba, you just add dba on the title line of your tax return.

I have heard of states that require that business names by run by them because they don't allow certain ones, but you are past that stage?

AK lawyer
Feb 11, 2014, 08:56 PM
As far as anyone I know who was a dba...

"d/b/a" is not a noun. It is not a thing. The phrase means, of course, "doing business as", as in "John Smith, doing business as 'Smith's Widgets' ". John Smith might be a sole proprietor, but people who buy widgets from him know is store as "Smith's Widgets". Similarly, if OP's non-profit corporation does business as (some phrase), that doesn't affect who is responsible. Whether the IRS will allow people, who have made charitable donations to the non-profit, to deduct those donations is what 501 (c) (3) recognition is all about. A review of the IRS bulletins and manuals on the subject might answer the question.