Non-Profit Status Advantages

Advantages include:

1. Tax-exempt qualified: Expands resource base, less dependent on single donor; can develop and pursue funding and gift-in-kind opportunities with grant-making organizations, institutions, like-minded organizations and the public.
2. Independent: BoD; Publicly accountable; regulated
3. Member of INGO Community: Opens broad domestic and international collaboration
4. Benchmarked to INGO Standards—Financial; Organizational; Operational Performance
5. Operationally de-centralized: Work through local implementing partner(s) for sustainability
6. Working directly with local partners, led and advised by locals

 

GeoAid’s 501c-3 Recognition letter