Form 990 filing help for chapters

The IRS automatically revokes a chapter's tax-exempt status after three consecutive missed Form 990 filings. No warning letter arrives at the chapter house; the clock just runs. And because most chapters turn over their treasurer every year, the person who filed last (or didn't) is usually gone by the time it matters — which is exactly how organizations discover the problem years too late, when a bank or national asks for proof of exemption.

This is a deadline-tracking problem, not an accounting problem — and deadline tracking is what software is for. Dueflow will pin the obligation to the chapter itself: the current treasurer gets warned early, every year, no matter how many officer transitions have happened since the last filing.

Which form a chapter files depends mostly on gross receipts: $50,000 or less usually means the five-minute 990-N e-Postcard, larger chapters file the 990-EZ or full 990. For a chapter running on spreadsheets, even answering "what were our gross receipts?" is a project.

For a chapter on Dueflow, that number already exists — dues, store sales, and every other dollar of revenue are on the books. The 990 work collapses into confirming numbers instead of reconstructing them. Join the early-access list and we'll notify your chapter the moment 990 support launches.