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How does an organization get removed from your website when it has dissolved?

Organizations registered with the IRS are supposed to notify the IRS when they formally dissolve. After submitting the required paperwork with the IRS the organization will be removed from the IRS Business Master File.

Detailed instructions on how to terminate a tax-exempt organization are available on the IRS webpage:

For public charities: http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=156422,00.html.

For private foundations: http://www.irs.gov/charities/foundations/article/0,,id=141392,00.html.

Information on active and inactive tax-exempt organizations is available on the NCCS DataWeb at http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/PubApps/990search.php?bmf=M.