Wyoming Registered Agent Prime LLC offers Wyoming nonprofit corporation formation for $111 + $50 state fee, preparing and filing the formation documents for a Wyoming nonprofit corporation with the Wyoming Secretary of State and providing the Wyoming registered agent and registered office the entity is required to maintain.

A Wyoming nonprofit corporation is formed by filing articles of incorporation with the Wyoming Secretary of State and is governed by the Wyoming Nonprofit Corporation Act. Federal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status is a separate step with the IRS, not part of the state filing.

One (1) or more persons may act as the incorporator or incorporators of a corporation by delivering articles of incorporation to the secretary of state for filing.

Wyoming Nonprofit Corporation Act — Wyo. Stat. § 17-19-201

Forming the Wyoming entity and becoming a 501c3 nonprofit are two separate steps. We file the Wyoming nonprofit corporation with the Secretary of State; federal tax-exempt status — whether a 501c3 nonprofit for charitable, educational, or religious work, or a 501c4 nonprofit for social-welfare work — is applied for separately with the IRS on Form 1023 or 1023-EZ, and only the IRS can grant it. We are not a law firm or tax adviser and do not file the exemption application.

The two also report separately. The Wyoming annual report keeps the state entity active, while the 501c3 annual report requirements are federal: a recognised 501(c)(3) files an IRS Form 990 each year. State formation comes first; the federal exemption is built on top of it.

Starting a nonprofit organization in Wyoming begins with incorporation. How to start a nonprofit in Wyoming is, in practice: choose a name, appoint at least three directors, and file the articles of incorporation nonprofit founders must submit to the Secretary of State. That nonprofit incorporation — the nonprofit registration with the state — is the nonprofit application we prepare and file for you, creating one of the Wyoming nonprofit corporations on the public record. Bylaws and a mission statement are prepared alongside it but are not filed with the state.

A Wyoming nonprofit corporation is run by a nonprofit board of directors — at least three individuals under Wyoming law. The nonprofit mission statement sets the charitable, educational, or religious purpose the board serves, and a statement of activities nonprofit boards prepare reports how the organisation used its funds toward that purpose. Among the nonprofit advantages of the Wyoming corporation are limited liability for directors, privacy, and low annual cost. Religious nonprofit organizations are expressly provided for as one of Wyoming’s three nonprofit types, alongside public-benefit and mutual-benefit corporations.

Every Wyoming nonprofit needs an EIN for nonprofit banking and its IRS filings; we can obtain that federal number as part of getting you set up. The non profit filing requirements with the state are light: keep a nonprofit registered agent, and meet the nonprofit annual report requirements by filing the Wyoming annual report each year under W.S. 17-19-1630. If the organisation winds down, a nonprofit dissolution is filed with the Secretary of State to close it cleanly.