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Re: Is your FRC team a nonprofit?

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Originally Posted by JaneYoung (Post 646667)

LASA Robotics is a non-profit that is completely separate from our school. We formed a corporation with the state, with limited liability. We applied for and received non-profit status under IRS rules much as a booster club for athletics or band - but we are robotics.

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Originally Posted by RoboMom (Post 646670)

The Baltimore Area Alliance teams got a small local family foundation to agree to incorporate the local FIRST teams. Donations to these teams can be sent to this foundation, and the donors get a tax write off. It's not a lot of work for the local foundation. It is a little work for the local Senior Mentor (me). And the BAA teams have discovered the effectiveness of fundraising as an alliance.

team xbot has operated under both of these schemes (and still does, to some extent) and has had good luck with each. We work outside the public schools system for a few reasons and by first working with an existing non-profit and then achieving that status ourselves, we've been able to develop a sustainable program that's outside the purview of the school system and keep control with the people who are most familiar with the program.

Re: Is your FRC team a nonprofit?

Our school is Non-profit and so in turn so are we. All sponserships need to be done through the school. This way we do not risk our non-profit status.

Re: Is your FRC team a nonprofit?

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...Teams_2007.pdf

This basically allows a sponsor to send in their money through FIRST, who then uses that money to sign a team up for an event

Re: Is your FRC team a nonprofit?

River City Robots is a not-for-profit, 501 (c) 3 registered in Missouri.
Under the main organization, we have:

Channel Cats - FRC Team 1094
Multiple FLL teams - I think 10 or 11 this year

We are not associated with a school district and we have kids from 3 or 4 districts and about 8 different schools (2 are private schools) along with 3 or 4 home schooled families.

As we aren't part of a school district, we can meet on snow days and as as long as we want, but we are responsible for our own finances and space. I think it's a good mix of kids and mentors from the community.

DeAnna