IRS strips tax-exempt status for 275,000 groups

June 08, 2011

IRS strips tax-exempt status for 275K groups

By Michael Winter, USA TODAY
Updated 2h 41m ago

The IRS has automatically revoked the tax-exempt status of 275,000 organizations that did not file required annual reports for the past three years, the Associated Press reports.

The IRS believes that most are defunct, but functioning groups were told how to seek reinstatement (pdf).

For past donors to the affected groups, the revocations "should have little, if any, impact on donors who previously made deductible contributions to auto-revoked organizations because donations made prior to the publication of an organization's name on the list remain tax-deductible," the IRS said in a news release.

The IRS said it will post the names of the revoked groups on its website.

As of last year there were nearly 2 million tax-exempt organizations. About 1.3 million were religious and charitable groups.

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The list of organizations whose tax-exempt status has been revoked for failing to meet their filing requirement, which will be available on the IRS website at www.IRS.gov , includes each organization’s name, Employer Identification Number (EIN) and last known address. It is searchable by state. It also includes the effective date of the automatic revocation and the date it was posted to the list. The IRS will update the list monthly to include additional organizations that lose their tax-exempt status.

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Automatic Revocation of Exemption List (by state) @ http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0, ... 99,00.html

The IRS has started publishing a list of organizations that have had their federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked for failing to file an annual information return or notice with the IRS for three consecutive years. The Automatic Revocation of Exemption List (Auto-Revocation List) is available in Adobe and Excel formats, and divided into separate lists by jurisdiction. The Auto-Revocation List provides the name, employer identification number (EIN), organization (subsection) code, last known address, effective date of revocation, and date on which the name was posted on www.IRS.gov .

The chart below categorizes automatically revoked organizations by state. For each state, lists are provided in alphabetical order using Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Excel formats. Below are the steps to view and search the list for Acrobat and Excel:


Acrobat (Coming Soon) Excel
After clicking the link, an option to save the file or open it immediately wil appear. After clicking the link, an option to save the file or open it immediately wil appear.

Use the search feature to locate an organization by name, employer identification number, address, city, state, or zip code. The list may be sorted by data field or the search feature (CTRL+f) may be used.

Page Last Reviewed or Updated: June 08, 2011

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