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hi Kristian lefur here creator of get nonprofit status and the nonprofit launch kit where we help you launch your world-changing nonprofit vision into reality today in this short tutorial video which runs about eight minutes we're going to help you go through the process of getting your EIN or employer identification number also known as a tax ID number from the IRS so why don't we get started if you're not if you don't have a browser window open go ahead and open one up if you'd like and you can follow right along and you'll have your EIN number and less than ten minutes here if at any point you need to pause this video to be able to follow along online go ahead and do that that's what this is designed for so let's get started what you'll do first is just go right up to your address bar and type in WWI ARS gov on the IRS page we'll go straight down the left-side navigation bar and select apply for an employer identification number on the following page a lot of fairly useless information they do mention a couple of new questions you'll have to answer on the way but we're going to show you right right now how to do that so click apply online now and again you have another splash page with a lot of not very useful information so select begin application here you'll go down these entities you will ignore them all and click view additional types including tax-exempt organization on the following page here you might want to review a couple of these if you're doing a church or ministry but for the most part you're going to go straight down to other nonprofit tax-exempt organizations down on the bottom right and select that this will cover 99% of 501 C 3s that somebody might want to file on this page there's simply a little discussion about what is and what is not qualified to be a nonprofit organization just hit continue and again you'll look at either started new business hired employees banking purposes change types of organizations or purpose or I'm sorry purchased active business the reason for getting the ein in many cases we've get nonprofit status calm is you started a new business but if you've been in existence for a while maybe that's the first time you're ramping your organization up and hiring employees and/or doing banking so just pick the question the answer that suits best and that's exactly what the IRS will tell you to do as well but for our purposes we're going to select started a new business hit continue on this page the responsible party information needs to be entered on the following screen so in most cases you'll hit individual and you'll fill out your personal information if for some reason an existing business or an existing nonprofit is launching a baby organization or nonprofit within it then you would select existing business and input the information from that organization so on the following page here you selected individuals so go ahead and type in your name and your social security number down below now this is a live-fire exercise so we're doing this for real and getting an EIN number right now I am appropriate and fully authorised member or officer so I will be hitting continue if you're a third party being hired to do it you would make the other selection where is your nonprofit physically located a p.o box will not do for this page you do have to put in a physical address and the IRS when you hit continue on this particular page the IRS actually does go out to the United States Postal Service database and matchup and address with a real live address that the USPS has on file it's important in most cases that you have a specific person that this paperwork will be directed to and the reason for that is if you're a new organization and you're borrowing an office or you have a P o box or you're using a home address it helps the postal the postal workers to know that there's a name associated and they'll be more familiar with where that person is at that address so good go ahead and do that if you have a different mailing address that you'd like your information to go to indicate that at the bottom of the page in this case that we do not have a separate address we want the information to go to and go ahead and click continue voila the IRS actually does have a slightly different they've abbreviated South here so we're going to accept the database version on the following page they want you to describe your nonprofit so put the official name in most cases disregard the next the next base unless you're doing business as a different organization it'll automatically fill in your county and your state based on where your address is and the date that you started go ahead and click continue in most cases on the following page the for questions the four of the five questions will be know very few organizations will say yes to those things they regard gaming and some other particulars if you think you'll have employees you may want to click yes in the question five and then you'll have one more page to fill out in this case we're just going to have contract workers and volunteers so we'll click continue on the following page this has to do with the types of activities your organization is going to be involved in in most cases you'll select other and continue and there's one more page here where they get a little bit more particular about what it is you do in most cases you'll go straight down to the bottom of the page except for a religious or social organizations civic organization something like that I typically would select other for most nonprofits but most 501 C 3s and then select and then indicate what your primary business activity is in this case it's community service we're starting a community service type organization so we'll put that in there and go ahead and select continue and we're just about ready to verify our information so of course we're going to want to receive the letter online and not wait for the mail so select that and click continue now this page is very important with all the information you want to very carefully scroll down and make sure that you did not make a mistake on this page go ahead and click Submit if everything is correct and wonderful congratulations you now have an IE i-n number with the IRS now what I generally recommend here in case you have some kind of malfunction or or something is that you right-click and open up your EIN confirmation letter from the IRS which is a PDF open that up in a separate tab this way you can go ahead and save it you can print it but you know it's there but you still have the other page there in case you need to go back and print a screenshot or something to verify I generally would recommend saving this document first it's very important and it takes a long time to go get a copy from the IRS should you lose your so I'm going to go ahead and name this document appropriately save it on my local hard drive and now got it saved I'm going to go ahead and print it out and put it in a special folder where I have all of my other nonprofit organizations materials kind of backed up on paper but thanks so much for for coming and we'll see you in the next training video have a great day you