Becoming Non Profit?

[amesmich]

How many have experience or have thought about being non profit. We ar ea rookie team this year and started being connected to our school. We have found it to be tricky to navigate funding since as of now everything needs to go through the school account. So to make snap purchases its becomes a process. Additionally we cant set up paypal or amazon donation accounts because we can have direct access to the account and the school system is behind the times when it comes to electronics payments regarding anything. So that leads us to set up an account on our our separate from the school but still non profit. Anyone do this? Any advice or issues that arise? Our concern is the tax work may over complicate it? Go figure, we try to get away from one bureaucracy for simplicity only to get tripped up by another. My thought is if we grow bigger it may be easier in the long run.