Tax-Exempt Status Revoked for 17 Apple Valley Organizations

Seventeen nonprofit organizations that listed Apple Valley addresses have had their federal tax-exempt status revoked, according to data the Internal Revenue Service released earlier in June.

Those organizations were among 275,000 nationwide that lost exemptions.

Lois Lerner, director of the division of the IRS that oversees tax-exempt groups, told the New York Times the agency believed most of the organizations on the list were defunct, though there was really no way to know because so many of them couldn’t be reached.

“In many cases, we didn’t have a good address because the last one was many years old and they hadn’t had to file since then because they weren’t big enough,” Lerner said in the article.

The organizations the IRS listed that had Apple Valley addresses are:

• Banner Brothers Communications
• Dakota County Amateur Radio
• Financial Services Policy Institute
• From Glory to Glory, Inc.
• Gospel Outreach of Apple Valley
• Help Our Public Education
• Lutheran Stewards
• Minneapolis Public Elementary
• Minnesota Commercial Flower Growers
• Minnesota League of Rural Voters
• MJM Private Foundation
• National Association of Postal Supervisors
• Olowan-A Song for Life
• Opt
• Soo Line Locomotive and Car
• The Minnesota Academy for [sic]
• The Parenting Oasis

For nonprofits in Minnesota that are still operating but actually did lose their tax-exempt status and want to get it back, the IRS is working to help them regain that status, according to an article by Tierney Plumb of the Washington Business Journal.

Organizations fill out an application to try to regain tax-exempt status, and pay an $850 fee if their annual gross receipts are more than $10,000, the Journal article says. The fee is $400 if receipts are less than $10,000.

Until a change in federal law in 2006, only organizations with annual revenue of $25,000 or more—about one-third of the 1.6 million nonprofit groups—were required to file, the New York Times article says.