Nonprofit Charitable Registration by State
State-by-state charitable-solicitation registration regimes for nonprofits: register-required rows, no-general-registration rows, registrar family, fees, charitable-organization definitions, and AG charitable-assets oversight across all 51 U.S. jurisdictions.
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Filing deadlines, fees, and thresholds are set by each state's own regulator and change without notice; every figure here reflects the cited source as of the date shown and should be confirmed with that regulator before anyone relies on it.
Whether a given organization must register in a given state turns on its own solicitation activity, revenue, and exemption status, and soliciting across state lines can trigger registration in more than one state; the requirement summarized here is the statute's general rule, not a determination about any particular organization.
| State | Registration Regime | Registrar | Fee Signal | Charitable Definition | Ag Assets Oversight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKchecked 2026-09-12 | Registration required | Alaska Department of Law | $40 registration | AS 45.68.900(1): a nonprofit organization operated for relief of poverty/distress/public-concern conditions in the state, OR one the IRS recognizes as tax-exempt under 501(c)(3). | No AG notice-and-consent requirement for an ordinary voluntary dissolution or charitable-asset transfer - the process is self-executing under AS 10.20.290-.320, with charitable-purpose assets sent to a similar organization per AS 10.20.295(3). The Attorney... |
| ALchecked 2026-09-12 | Registration required | Alabama Attorney General | $25 registration | Ala. Code Section 13A-9-70(1): a benevolent/philanthropic/patriotic person (or one purporting to be such), tied to the then-controlling IRC definition, that solicits and collects funds for charitable purposes. | Confirmed: a membership nonprofit corporation's dissolution requires board + member approval, and the notice of the members' meeting must state how assets will be distributed after creditors are paid (10A-3A-11.02). The Certificate of Dissolution (filed und...chain-bound |
| ARchecked 2026-09-12 | Registration requiredchain-bound | Arkansas Secretary of State (Charities Division)chain-bound | See source notechain-bound | "Charitable organization" is affirmatively defined for the registration statute itself (A.C.A. Section 4-28-401(1)) as any person holding themselves out as established for a benevolent/educational/philanthropic/humane/scientific/patriotic/social-welfare-or-...chain-bound | Arkansas's AG-oversight mechanism runs through JUDICIAL DISSOLUTION standing, not a voluntary-dissolution notice-and-consent requirement: the Attorney General may petition the circuit court to dissolve a corporation whose articles were fraudulently obtained...chain-bound |
| AZchecked 2026-09-12 | No general registration; veterans' organizations must file a registration statement with the Secretary of State (A.R.S. §13-3722(A)) | None for general charity registration | No general charity-registration fee | Unknowntyped unknown | Arizona's Nonprofit Corporation Act imposes NO general Attorney-General-notice-and-consent requirement on an ordinary merger, sale of assets, or dissolution - materially lighter-touch than states like WY/NY/CA. The only statutory AG-facing mechanism found i... |
| CAchecked 2026-09-12 | Registration required | California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers | $50 initial registration | Gov. Code Section 12582.1: a charitable corporation is a nonprofit corporation (domestic or similar foreign) organized for charitable or eleemosynary purposes and doing business or holding property in California for those purposes. A 'trustee' definition wa...chain-bound | California requires AG oversight on BOTH legs: a 20-day AG-notice-and-waiver mechanism for a substantial asset sale outside the ordinary course (Section 5913, closely paralleling WY's public-benefit provision), and - going further than WY, NY, or FL - the A... |
| COchecked 2026-09-12 | Registration required | Colorado Secretary of State | $10 fee | C.R.S. Section 6-16-103(1) defines 'charitable organization,' for registration purposes, as any person who IS or HOLDS HIMSELF OUT TO BE organized for an enumerated benevolent/educational/philanthropic/etc. purpose (or for law-enforcement/firefighter/vetera... | Colorado's Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act imposes NO general Attorney-General notice-and-consent requirement on an ordinary merger or dissolution. Instead, two explicit, narrower AG mechanisms exist: (1) Article 131 preserves the Attorney General's COMMO... |
| CTchecked 2026-09-12 | Registration required | Department of Consumer Protection (Public Charities Unit) | $50 initial registration | Unlike Arizona/Delaware/Wyoming/Texas (each structurally n/a - no registration-anchored definition exists because those states have no general charitable-solicitation registration statute), Connecticut's Solicitation of Charitable Funds Act DOES define 'cha... | Chapter 602 imposes no general Attorney-General-notice-and-consent requirement on an ordinary nonstock-corporation merger, sale of assets, or dissolution. The AG's Chapter 602 powers are enforcement-triggered (dissolving/enjoining unauthorized conduct; peti...chain-bound |
| DCchecked 2026-09-14 | Registration required | Mayor or designated agency | Fee not isolated in source cell | D.C.'s charitable-solicitation chapter defines registrant, solicitation, charitable, contribution, and person rather than a separate 'charitable organization' term. | D.C. OAG enforces the Nonprofit Corporation Act for nonprofits and charitable assets, may bring actions over unlawful solicitation or nonprofit-purpose violations, and requests advance dissolution notice from charitable corporations. |
| DEchecked 2026-09-12 | No general registration | None for general charity registration | No general charity-registration fee | Unknowntyped unknown | Delaware's General Corporation Law imposes NO general AG-notice-and-consent requirement on a nonstock corporation's ordinary merger, sale of assets, or dissolution - markedly lighter-touch than WY/NY/CA. The only statutory AG-notice trigger found is narrow:... |
| FLchecked 2026-09-11 | Registration required | Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), Division of Consumer Services | Variable fee schedule | s. 496.404(1), F.S. (Solicitation of Contributions Act): a charitable organization is a person established for (or holding itself out as established for) an enumerated benevolent/philanthropic/eleemosynary purpose, or one that uses a charitable appeal as th... | Florida has NO direct equivalent to NY/CA's AG-notice-on-dissolution/merger/asset-sale regime - confirmed by reading the operative sale-of-assets (617.1202) and dissolution (617.1401-1440) articles directly: both require only member/board/court approval, wi... |
| GAchecked 2026-09-12 | Registration requiredchain-bound | Secretary of State (Securities and Charities Division)chain-bound | $35 initial registrationchain-bound | Georgia's Charitable Solicitations Act defines 'charitable organization' expressly for registration purposes at Section 43-17-2(2) - and structurally EXCLUDES religious organizations from the term (religious organizations are separately defined at Section 4...chain-bound | Chapter 3 imposes no general advance-notice-and-consent requirement to the Attorney General for an ordinary nonprofit merger, asset sale, or dissolution. The AG's powers under Section 14-3-170 are enforcement-triggered - petitioning the superior court for i...chain-bound |
| HIchecked 2026-09-12 | Registration required | Department of the Attorney General, Tax & Charities Division | $0 initial registration | Unlike Arizona/Delaware/Wyoming/Texas (each structurally n/a in this corpus - no general charitable-solicitation registration statute), Hawaii's Chapter 467B DOES define 'charitable organization' expressly for registration purposes, at Section 467B-1, and t... | Chapter 414D imposes AG-notice duties on a public benefit corporation's merger and out-of-regular-course asset sales, not just its dissolution. Merger: a public benefit corporation may merge freely (no notice) into another public benefit corp, a qualifying... |
| IAchecked 2026-09-13 | Fundraiser permit and disclosure duties; entity rule disputed | Attorney General for disclosure; paid fundraiser permit in source note | See source note | IC 633A.5107(1)(a) textually defines the registration-scope class as 'a nonprofit entity as defined in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code'. IC 422.3, cross-referenced in the same clause, does NOT define 'nonprofit entity' -- it only pins which v...chain-bound | Iowa's Attorney General oversees charitable assets through the IC 633A.5107 registration/annual-report regime for charitable TRUSTS with assets over $25,000 -- described by the AG's own office as helping 'locate charitable assets in Iowa and better ensure t... |
| IDchecked 2026-09-12 | No general registration | None for general charity registration | No general charity-registration fee | Unknowntyped unknown | Idaho's Charitable Assets Protection Act (ICAPA, Title 48 Ch.19) requires a charitable organization holding more than $10,000 in charitable assets to give the Attorney General 30 days' written notice before dissolving, converting to a noncharitable organiza... |
| ILchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Illinois Attorney General, Charitable Trust Bureau | $15 registration | 225 ILCS 460/1(a): "Charitable organization" means any benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic, or eleemosynary person or one purporting to be such which solicits and collects funds for charitable purposes... | No merger/asset-sale/dissolution-specific AG pre-notice clause exists in the NFP Act itself. AG oversight instead runs through the Charitable Trust Act's general registration and annual reporting of all charitable trustees (760 ILCS 55/5-7, $4,000 threshold... |
| INchecked 2026-09-13 | No charity registration; professional-fundraiser regime | None for general charity registration | No general charity-registration fee | IC 23-7-8-1 (the Professional Fundraiser Consultant and Solicitor Registration Act -- Indiana's actual charitable-solicitation-registration statute) defines "charitable organization" as any organization described in IRC Section 501. | The Attorney General may bring, or must be given written notice of and may intervene in, a judicial dissolution proceeding against a public benefit or religious corporation; venue for an AG-brought proceeding lies in Marion County (IC 23-17-24-2). |
| KSchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Kansas Attorney General (transferred from the Secretary of State by 2021 House Bill 2079, effective May 27, 2021) | $25 fee | Unlike Idaho, Wyoming, and Texas earlier in this corpus (each of which has no charitable-solicitation registration regime and therefore no registration-purpose definition to report), Kansas DOES define 'charitable organization' specifically for its registra... | Unknowntyped unknown |
| KYchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Attorney General, Office of Consumer Protection, Charity Division | $0 registration | Kentucky's Charitable Solicitation Act defines 'charitable organization' broadly at KRS 367.650(2) -- covering not only IRS-determined 501(c)(3) organizations but also anyone holding itself out as charitable/civic-purposed, or using a charitable/civic appea... | Kentucky protects charitable assets primarily through a MANDATORY statutory default on dissolution (KRS 273.303(3)) -- charitably-restricted assets must go to a similar-purpose nonprofit -- rather than through an advance-notice-to-the-Attorney-General requi... |
| LAchecked 2026-09-12 | Paid-solicitor trigger only | Only when paid professional solicitor is used | $25 organization registration | Two related but non-identical definitions exist. The base statutory definition (R.S. 51:1901(1)) defines "Charitable Organization" as a person holding itself out as a benevolent/civic/recreational/educational/voluntary-health/social-service/philanthropic/fr... | Louisiana has NO Idaho-ICAPA-style dedicated statute requiring a nonprofit CORPORATION to give the Attorney General advance notice before dissolving or disposing of charitable assets -- that specific mechanism was searched for and not found in Chapter 2 or... |
| MAchecked 2026-09-14 | Registration required | Attorney General, Non-Profit Organizations/Public Charities Division | $100 registration | Chapter 180 itself defines "public charity" only by cross-reference: section 2(f) states a public charity is "a corporation holding funds subject to the provisions of section eight of chapter twelve" -- i.e., any corporation whose funds fall under the Attor... | Massachusetts gives the Attorney General a notably active, multi-pronged oversight role over charitable assets -- more so than several other states in this corpus that rely mainly on a dissolution-time asset-distribution default. Section 8A(c) requires adva... |
| MDchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Secretary of State, Charitable Organizations Division | six-tier schedule keyed to the organization's total charitable contributions (per its most recently completed fiscal year, computed per specific IRS-990-family line items named on the same form) -- $0 / $50 / $75 / $100 / $200 / $300 as contributions rise through $25K / $50K / $75K / $100K / $500K bands | Maryland's Solicitations Act defines 'charitable organization' at Bus. Reg. Section 6-101(d) by a holding-out-plus-solicitation test -- broader in subject-matter reach than a bare 501(c)(3) cross-reference (covering 'benevolent,' 'eleemosynary,' 'humane,' '... | Maryland protects charitable assets through two independent mechanisms: a dedicated, free-standing Attorney General enforcement title (Bus. Reg. Title 6.5, 'Protection of Charitable Assets') giving the AG broad investigation, subpoena, and enforcement power... |
| MEchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Department of Professional and Financial Regulation | Fee not isolated in source cell | 9 M.R.S. Section 5003(1) defines 'charitable organization' for registration purposes as any person or entity that is or holds itself out to be organized or operated for a charitable purpose AND solicits, accepts or obtains contributions from the public by a... | Maine builds Attorney General oversight of charitable (public benefit corporation) assets directly into the Nonprofit Corporation Act itself, rather than through a separate dedicated act (contrast Idaho's standalone Charitable Assets Protection Act earlier... |
| MIchecked 2026-09-14 | Registration required | Michigan Attorney General | $25,000 | Statutory definition of "charitable organization" for Michigan charitable-solicitation registration purposes, MCL 400.272(a) (Charitable Organizations and Solicitations Act, Act 169 of 1975); expressly excludes qualifying religious organizations, political... | The Michigan Attorney General has general statutory supervisory jurisdiction over all charitable trusts and their assets (Supervision of Trustees for Charitable Purposes Act, MCL 14.251 et seq.), maintaining a register of charitable trusts/trustees and appe... |
| MNchecked 2026-09-14 | Registration required | Minnesota Attorney General's Office, Charities Division | $25 registration | For charitable-solicitation registration purposes, Minnesota defines 'charitable organization' as any person who engages in or purports to engage in solicitation for a charitable purpose (including a chapter, branch, or affiliate soliciting for a parent org... | Minnesota nonprofits holding charitable-purpose assets, exempt under 501(c)(3), or (effective 2025-07-01) operating as a nonprofit health coverage entity under Section 145D.30, must give the Attorney General written notice before dissolving, merging, consol... |
| MOchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Missouri Attorney General | $15 / $50 | Missouri defines 'charitable organization' specifically for its charitable-solicitation registration article (RSMo 407.453(1)) as any person who does business or holds property in Missouri for a charitable purpose and engages in soliciting funds or donation... | Missouri ties Attorney General oversight of charitable assets specifically to the DISSOLUTION of a 'public benefit corporation' (RSMo 355.676) - a category that includes every 501(c)(3)-exempt corporation by default (RSMo 355.881(3)). Before or when filing...chain-bound |
| MSchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Secretary of State, Charities Division | $50 registration | A two-branch definition (IRS 501(c)(3) determination OR a broad purpose/appeal-based test not limited to Section 170-deductible organizations) with a categorical, conditions-based exclusion for bona fide religious institutions - religious orgs are outside t... | Two AG/SoS-adjacent oversight mechanisms are independently confirmed: AG-initiated revocation of a foreign nonprofit's authority for abuse of its powers, and SoS-collected final-asset-distribution reporting on a charitable organization's dissolution. The of...chain-bound |
| MTchecked 2026-09-13 | No general registration | None for general charity registration | No general charity-registration fee | Unknowntyped unknown | A Montana public benefit corporation or religious corporation must give the Attorney General written notice of intent to dissolve (including a copy or summary of the dissolution plan) at or before delivering articles of dissolution to the Secretary of State... |
| NCchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Department of the Secretary of State (G.S. 131F-2(7): "'Department' means the Department of the Secretary of State") | $50,000, | Unlike Idaho/Wyoming/Texas (which have no registration regime and therefore no registration-purpose definition to report), North Carolina's Chapter 131F defines 'charitable organization' directly at G.S. 131F-2(3) with a three-way disjunctive test: (a) hold... | North Carolina has no standalone charitable-assets-protection act comparable to Idaho's ICAPA. AG oversight is instead built directly into the Nonprofit Corporation Act as two separate triggers: mergers of a charitable/religious corporation with a non-chari... |
| NDchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | North Dakota Secretary of State (NOT a separate AG-run registry; the Attorney General's Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division handles enforcement only) | $25 fee | Unlike several sibling states with no general charitable-registration regime (hence no term to define), North Dakota's ch. 50-22 supplies its OWN single-prong definition of "charitable organization" at 50-22-01(2)(a): a person that engages in or purports to... | North Dakota's general AG-oversight mechanism is a PRE-TRANSACTION NOTICE regime, not an AG-initiated dissolution lawsuit like some sibling states: any corporation that holds assets for a charitable purpose, or is exempt under IRC 501(c)(3), must notify the... |
| NEchecked 2026-09-13 | No general registration | None for general charity registration | No general charity-registration fee | Unknowntyped unknown | A public benefit or religious corporation must give the Attorney General written notice of its intent to dissolve, at or before delivering articles of dissolution, and must wait 20 days before transferring assets unless the Attorney General consents in writ... |
| NHchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Office of the Attorney General, Charitable Trusts Unit (Division of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice) | $25 registration | RSA 7:21, II(b) defines 'charitable organization' specifically for the RSA 7:19-32-b registration/reporting regime, using a two-prong, disjunctive test: (1) IRS 501(c)(3) determination-holders, or (2) any self-described or appeal-based charitable-purpose or... | New Hampshire's AG oversight of charitable assets operates on two integrated tracks. (1) An ONGOING regulatory track under RSA 7:19-32-b: the Director of Charitable Trusts can investigate any charitable trust/solicitation/sales-promotion at any time (RSA 7:... |
| NJchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | NJ Division of Consumer Affairs, Charities Registration & Investigation Section | $10,000 | Unlike several sibling states in this corpus (e.g. NE, TX, WY -- no registration regime, hence no term to define), NJ's CRI Act supplies its OWN two-prong statutory definition of "charitable organization" at 45:17A-20: (1) any person the IRS has determined... | NJ structures Attorney General oversight differently from notice-before-dissolution states like Nebraska: rather than requiring advance NOTICE to the AG before a corporation dissolves voluntarily, 15A:12-11 gives the Attorney General an independent statutor... |
| NMchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | New Mexico Department of Justice, Charities Unit (formerly the Attorney General's Registry of Charitable Organizations) | null registration | 57-22-3(A) of the Charitable Solicitations Act defines 'charitable organization', for THAT act's registration/reporting regime, with the same disjunctive structure seen elsewhere in this corpus: (1) any entity with an IRS 501(c)(3) determination, OR (2) any... | A full read of the Nonprofit Corporation Act (Chapter 53, Article 8) located ZERO references to the attorney general anywhere in its 99 sections -- New Mexico's structure is materially different from states that build AG notice/hearing rights directly into... |
| NVchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Nevada Secretary of State, Commercial Recording Division (NOT the Attorney General) | See source note | For purposes of the solicitation-registration chapter, 'charitable organization' means any person who directly or indirectly solicits contributions and who either (a) is IRS-determined 501(c)(3)-exempt, (b) is or purports to be established for one of a long... | A Nevada 'corporation for public benefit' and any corporation holding assets in charitable trust is subject at all times to examination by the Attorney General to ascertain whether it has departed from its assumed trusts or formation purposes, with power to... |
| NYchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Office of the New York State Attorney General, Charities Bureau | $25 / $1,500 / $250 / $1 | Exec. Law Section 171-a(1): a charitable organization for Article 7-A registration purposes is any benevolent/philanthropic/patriotic/eleemosynary person (or one purporting to be such), or a law enforcement support organization | New York requires AG (or court, with AG notice) approval on both legs for a CHARITABLE corporation: substantial asset sales (Section 510(a)(3), via Section 511's 15-day-AG-notice court petition) and dissolution plans (Section 1002(d), AG approval annexed, o... |
| OHchecked 2026-09-14 | Registration required | Ohio Attorney General, Charitable Law Section (filed via the "Charitable Ohio" online system at charitable.ohioago.gov) | $0 / $25 / $50 / $100 | ORC 1716.01(A) defines "charitable organization" for registration purposes with the same two-prong, disjunctive structure seen elsewhere in this corpus: (1) IRS 501(c)(3) determination-holders, or (2) any self-described or appeal-based eleemosynary-purpose... | Ohio's AG oversight of charitable assets runs through the Charitable Law Section on two formally separate but practically converging tracks. (1) The TRUST track (ORC 109.23-109.33): any "fiduciary relationship ... to deal with property within this state for... |
| OKchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Oklahoma Secretary of State (NOT the Attorney General -- though the AG's Charity Enforcement Unit receives a statutorily dedicated funding cut of the fee and has an independent notice/enforcement role, see ag_oversight_charitable_assets) | $65 fee | 18 O.S. Section 552.2(2) defines "charitable organization" as any person (other than a natural person) described in IRC Section 501(c) that solicits contributions and is organized and operated PRIMARILY for an extensive enumerated purpose list -- religious,... | Oklahoma's AG-oversight mechanism is a PRE-TRANSACTION NOTICE regime, codified inside the SAME Solicitation of Charitable Contributions Act chapter as the registration requirement (18 O.S. Section 552.24) rather than inside the General Corporation Act -- a... |
| ORchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration requiredchain-bound | Oregon Department of Justice, Charitable Activities Section (NOT the Secretary of State) -- administered under the Attorney General's ORS ch. 128 authoritychain-bound | See source notechain-bound | ORS 128.620(1) defines "charitable corporation" as any nonprofit corporation organized under Oregon law for charitable or eleemosynary purposes (or a similar foreign corporation doing business or holding property in Oregon for such purposes) -- with a disti... | Oregon's general mechanism is a DISSOLUTION-SPECIFIC pre-transfer notice, not a merger/consolidation-wide notice: a public benefit or religious corporation may not transfer or convey assets as part of a dissolution until 30 days after giving the Attorney Ge...chain-bound |
| PAchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | PA Department of State, Bureau of Charitable Organizations | See source note | PA's 'charitable organization' definition (10 P.S. Sec. 162.3) is deliberately broad -- it reaches not just IRS 501(c)(3) holders but anyone holding itself out as charitable or using a charitable-sounding solicitation appeal. Two explicit statutory exclusio... | Unknowntyped unknown |
| RIchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation | $90 registration | Rhode Island's charitable-solicitation registration statute defines "charitable organization" directly, for registration purposes, as any organization soliciting for a charitable purpose OR any organization holding itself out as such (R.I. Gen. Laws Section... | Rhode Island's Attorney General maintains a Division of Charitable Trusts (R.I. Gen. Laws Section 18-9-1) and must be notified of, and is deemed an interested party to, any judicial proceeding affecting a charitable trust or a trustee holding Rhode Island p...chain-bound |
| SCchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | SC Secretary of State, Division of Public Charities | $50 fee | Defined at Section 33-56-20(1) with a three-part disjunctive test (IRS 501(c)(3) determination, OR a stated eleemosynary purpose, OR use of a charitable appeal to solicit), and an express carve-out for houses of worship and their integrated auxiliaries and... | South Carolina's AG oversight is broader than Wyoming's in one respect and narrower in another: general investigatory power under 33-31-171 reaches every nonprofit corporation regardless of type, while the transaction-specific 20-day notice-and-consent regi... |
| SDchecked 2026-09-13 | No charity registration; paid telephone-solicitor regime | None for general charity registration | No general charity-registration fee | Unknowntyped unknown | South Dakota codifies three distinct Attorney General oversight mechanisms for nonprofit charitable assets. First (47-24-17), at least 10 days before any sale, transfer, conversion, or merger of at least 30% of a nonprofit corporation's assets, the corporat... |
| TNchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration requiredchain-bound | Tennessee Secretary of State (Department of State) -- not the Attorney General. The Act's own defined term for the administering unit is the 'department of state's division of business and charitable organizations' (T.C.A. 48-101-501(b)(9)); the Secretary of State's current public-facing division name for this program is 'Charitable Solicitations and Gaming.'chain-bound | $50 / $50,000chain-bound | Tennessee's Charitable Solicitations Act (T.C.A. 48-101-501(b)(3)) defines 'charitable organization' specifically for registration purposes with a disjunctive two-prong test: any IRS-determined 501(c)(3) organization, OR any person who is or holds itself ou...chain-bound | Tennessee's AG oversight of charitable-asset transactions is embedded directly in the Nonprofit Corporation Act rather than existing as one standalone statute: three separate chapters -- merger (T.C.A. Section 48-61-123), non-regular-course sale or disposit...chain-bound |
| TXchecked 2026-09-11 | No general registration; narrow special-category registration triggers | No general registrar; OAG/SOS for narrow category-specific registration triggers | No general charity-registration fee | Unknowntyped unknown | Texas Property Code ch. 123 requires AG notice, but only once a charitable trust/entity matter becomes a court proceeding - a materially narrower trigger than NY's or CA's blanket administrative-filing requirement. A routine, uncontested nonprofit dissoluti... |
| UTchecked 2026-09-13 | Registration required | Division of Corporations and Commercial Code (DCCC) -- NOT the Division of Consumer Protection (DCP), though DCP retains statutory enforcement authority over the Charitable Solicitations Act | See source note | 13-22-2 (the Charitable Solicitations Act's definitions section, which secondary sources indicate defines 'charitable organization' for registration purposes) could not be independently confirmed this pass -- see note.chain-bound | 16-6a-1414(1) gives the Utah ATTORNEY GENERAL (jointly with the Division director) direct standing to bring a judicial action to dissolve a nonprofit corporation on two grounds: fraud in obtaining the articles of incorporation, or continued exceeding/abuse... |
| VAchecked 2026-09-14 | Registration required | Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Charitable and Regulatory Programs | $100 initial registration | Virginia's solicitation law defines charitable organization broadly to include persons organized or operated for charitable purposes and persons soliciting or obtaining public contributions, with stated exclusions for churches, political organizations, and... | Virginia Code Section 2.2-507.1 gives the Attorney General authority regarding assets of charitable corporations incorporated in or doing business in Virginia; those assets are deemed held in trust for the public. |
| VTchecked 2026-09-14 | Paid-fundraiser duties confirmed; charity rule unconfirmedchain-bound | Attorney General's Office for paid fundraiser dutieschain-bound | $675 paid-fundraiser annual; $270 campaign notice; $20,000 bondchain-bound | For Vermont's paid-fundraiser solicitation subchapter, a charitable organization is any organization that is or holds itself out to be furthering any charitable purpose. | The Attorney General may seek judicial dissolution when a public benefit corporation's assets are being misapplied or wasted, and Title 11B requires Attorney General notice for major public-benefit merger and asset-sale transactions. |
| WAchecked 2026-09-14 | Registration required | Washington Secretary of State, Charities Program | $60 initial registration | For Washington charitable-solicitation registration, a charitable organization is any entity soliciting or collecting public contributions for a charitable purpose, excluding the categories named in RCW 19.09.020. | Washington chapter 24.03A gives the Attorney General notice, action, intervention, and investigative powers over charitable corporations and property held for charitable purposes. |
| WIchecked 2026-09-14 | Registration required | Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions | $15 application | For Wisconsin charitable-solicitation registration, a charitable organization includes 501(c)(3) exempt organizations and persons established for charitable purposes. | Wisconsin Chapter 202 gives the Department of Justice investigation and enforcement powers for charitable-solicitation violations, including injunction, restitution, and forfeiture remedies. |
| WVchecked 2026-09-14 | Registration required | West Virginia Secretary of State | $15 for organizations collecting under $1 million per year; $50 for organizations collecting over $1 million per year | For West Virginia charitable-solicitation registration, a charitable organization includes organizations holding themselves out as charitable and persons soliciting public contributions for charitable purposes. | West Virginia charitable-solicitation law authorizes Secretary of State investigations and allows the Secretary, Attorney General, or prosecuting attorney to seek enforcement relief. |
| WYchecked 2026-09-11 | No general registration | None for general charity registration | No general charity-registration fee | Unknowntyped unknown | Wyoming DOES require AG involvement, but narrower than NY/CA: gated to public-benefit/religious corporations only (not mutual-benefit), via a 20-day SoS-to-AG notice-and-waiver mechanism for merger (17-19-1102), sale of assets outside the regular course (17... |
Hover column headers for field definitions and cells for source notes. Chain-bound and typed-unknown labels preserve the source-corpus caveat.
Register-required rows and no-general rows are different claims.
The regime count is derived from the charitable_solicitation_registration cell for each jurisdiction. A no-general or limited row appears only when that cell carries an affirmative source basis. It is not inferred from silence.
| Registration regime | Rows |
|---|---|
| Registration required | 39 |
| No general registration | 5 |
| Fundraiser permit and disclosure duties; entity rule disputed | 1 |
| No charity registration; paid telephone-solicitor regime | 1 |
| No charity registration; professional-fundraiser regime | 1 |
| No general registration; narrow special-category registration triggers | 1 |
| No general registration; veterans' organizations must file a registration statement with the Secretary of State (A.R.S. §13-3722(A)) | 1 |
| Paid-fundraiser duties confirmed; charity rule unconfirmed | 1 |
| Paid-solicitor trigger only | 1 |
Registrar families do not collapse into one agency.
The registrar field reports the office named by the source cell. Some states use an Attorney General or Department of Justice unit, some use a Secretary of State, and others route through agriculture, consumer protection, business regulation, or a different office.
| Registrar family | Rows |
|---|---|
| Attorney General / DOJ / Department of Law | 22 |
| Secretary of State / Department of State | 11 |
| No general registrar | 8 |
| Other or special regulator | 5 |
| Consumer-protection agency | 3 |
| Agriculture or consumer services | 2 |
None-state claims carry their affirmative basis.
This table is the negative-claim bar made visible. Rows listed here are not treated as blank fields. Their source notes name the published basis for no general registration, a narrow special-category regime, or an unresolved standalone charity-registration question.
| State | Affirmative basis |
|---|---|
| AZ | Arizona has NO general charitable-solicitation registration requirement - repealed effective 2013-09-13 (HB 2457). The Secretary of State's own current guidance affirmatively states that a charity not soliciting in the name of veterans does not need to register. The only surviving state filing duty is for Veterans' Charitable Organizations (A.R.S. Section... |
| DE | No state charitable-solicitation registration, licensing, or bonding requirement. The Charitable/Fraternal Solicitation Act (6 Del. C. Section Section 2591-2597) regulates solicitation conduct only (disclosure, recordkeeping, anti-fraud, calling-hours); the separate Telemarketing Registration Act (Ch. 25A - $50,000 bond + certificate of registration for c... |
| IA | Iowa has NO single 'charitable solicitation act'. TWO duties are textually clear and AG-practice-confirmed: (1) a paid THIRD-PARTY 'professional commercial fund-raiser' must register/obtain a permit under IC 13C.2(1); (2) regardless of registration status, a charitable organization must provide financial disclosure to the Attorney General or any requester... |
| ID | Idaho does not require charitable organizations to register with the state before soliciting donations generally. This is confirmed affirmatively by the Attorney General's own published FAQ ("ICAPA does not require charitable organizations and those who solicit contributions on their behalf to register with the Attorney General"), not merely an absence on... |
| IN | Indiana does NOT require a charitable organization that solicits on its own behalf to register. Registration under the Professional Fundraiser Consultant and Solicitor Registration Act (IC 23-7-8) is required only of paid THIRD-PARTY professional solicitors and fundraiser consultants acting for a charity -- not the charity itself. |
| LA | Louisiana does NOT require a charitable organization to register merely because it solicits contributions. Registration is triggered ONLY when the organization uses a paid PROFESSIONAL SOLICITOR: the charitable organization itself then registers annually with the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Section for a $25 fee (La. Admin. Code tit. 16, Pt. II... |
| MT | Montana has NO general state-level charitable-solicitation-registration statute or agency. This is a dual-source negative finding, not a bare absence-on-the-SoS-site guess: (1) the Department of Justice's Office of Consumer Protection -- the office that would administer such a regime if one existed, and whose own 'Donations to Charities' page is entirely... |
| NE | Nebraska does NOT require charitable-solicitation registration. Prior to 1996 the Secretary of State's Office registered charitable solicitors; that law was repealed following a Nebraska Supreme Court decision, and neither the Secretary of State nor the Attorney General currently operates a registration program for charities or paid solicitors soliciting... |
| SD | South Dakota imposes NO licensing or registration requirement on nonprofit or charitable organizations themselves, and does not require charities that solicit via direct mail to register -- confirmed directly and affirmatively by the Attorney General's own Division of Consumer Protection publication: "South Dakota does not have licensing or registration r... |
| TX | No general registration; narrow LETSA/public-safety/veterans registration triggers |
| VT | Official Vermont sources confirm registration/notice duties for paid fundraisers and paid solicitors; they do not provide a standalone, publish-ready charitable-organization registration/no-registration statement.chain-bound |
| WY | No state charitable solicitation registration - Wyoming has no charity or fundraiser registration requirement with the SoS or AG |
How to read this matrix
The main matrix is state-grain data. registration_regime, registrar, and fee_signal come from charitable_solicitation_registration. The definition and AG oversight columns come from the two companion cells named in their notes. Typed unknown cells render as caveats; chain-bound cells keep the source-chain limitation attached.
Sources
Per-figure citations live in this page's sources.json companion. The page is staged from gov_entities.nonprofit_t1_cellsand remains subject to the counsel pre-publish gate. Method notes live at /about/methodology/.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as forming a nonprofit corporation?
No. Formation creates the nonprofit corporation with the state business office. Charitable-solicitation registration is a separate state regime that can apply when an organization solicits, holds charitable assets, or falls within a state's charity statute.
How does this page handle states with no general registration?
No-general-registration rows are printed only when the charitable_solicitation_registration cell provides an affirmative basis. The page does not infer a negative claim from silence.
Why are the registrar columns different by state?
States assign charity registration to different offices: Attorney General or Department of Justice units, Secretaries of State, agriculture or consumer-protection agencies, and a few other regulators. The matrix reports the registrar stated in the source cell.