State | | Normal Due Date | | | COVID-19 Extended Due Date | | | Comments from State Charity Official | | |
Alabama | | 3 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Unchanged | | | “The expiration dates are still in effect but we are willing to work with each charity in these uncertain times. Extensions can be requested if there is not an extension already in place.” | | |
Alaska | | 8/31/2020 | | | Unchanged | | | No plans to grant additional extensions at this time, but there are no late fees. | | |
Arkansas | | 6 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: Arkansas has not posted information on their website or responded to our inquiries. However, the state does not enforce penalties or late fees for filing after their deadline. | | |
California | | 5/15/2020 | | | 7/15/2020 | | | The Registry of Charitable Trusts does honor ALL IRS extensions. The new due date to file with the IRS will become the due date to file with the Registry. The Registry status will remain current unless the filing has not been received by the final IRS due date. Please wait until the 990 is complete and submit all of the documents together. | | |
Colorado | | 5/15/2020 | | | 8/15/2020 | | | All registrant reports and filings that were or are due to the secretary of state between April 1, 2020 and July 15, 2020 are now due by August 15, 2020. If you have any questions concerning these rules please email charitable@sos.state.co.us or sos.rulemaking@sos.state.co.us. | | |
Connecticut | | 5/31/2020 | | | Unchanged | | | “It has no impact on our renewal dates. We are going to be very lenient with the assessment of late fees. Connecticut already has a 6 month extension for financial documents already built into the renewal date unlike other states. For example, a charity with a fiscal year end for December 2019 does not renew until November 30, 2020.” | | |
District of Columbia | | Based on registration date of applicant | | | Undefined | | | Any business licenses, professional/occupational licenses, vending licenses, etc. that expire during the declared emergency will be considered valid, and people will have until 45 days after the declared emergency is over to renew their licenses (90 days for special police officers). All late fees and penalties will be waived for those who complete the renewal within 45 days of the end of the emergency. | | |
Florida | | Based on registration date of applicant | | | Unchanged | | | It does not affect the renewal application because the charity already has the opportunity to request the 180 day extension for the financials. | | |
Georgia | | Based on registration date of applicant | | | Conditional | | | Charities with renewals due between 3/1/2020 and 4/30/2020 are relieved from the requirement to file financial statements when registering or renewing their charity registration so long as they file said financial statements not later than 6/30/2020. Charities that plan to use the extended deadline for submission under this order must be unable to meet the requirement due in some way to COVID-19 and must email the Secretary of State explaining the reason they could not meet the requirement and provide an estimation of when financials will be available. | | |
Hawaii | | 5/25/2020 | | | Conditional | | | Annual reports are due within 10 business days of when the organization filed their Form 990/990EZ with the IRS. | | |
Illinois | | 6 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: Illinois has not posted information on their website or responded to our inquiries. However, the state requires two separate notices to extend beyond the regular due date. | | |
Kansas | | 6 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: Kansas has not posted information on their website or responded to our inquiries. However, the state does not enforce penalties or late fees for filing after their deadline. | | |
Kentucky | | 5/15/2020 | | | 7/15/2020 | | | The IRS extension is acceptable to our office for filing of Form 990. | | |
Louisiana | | Based on registration date of applicant | | | Unchanged | | | Louisiana does not require the IRS Form 990 for annual registrations. | | |
Maine | | 11/30/2020 | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: Renewal filings are due November 30 for all organizations. No information currently exists regarding extensions along that timetable. | | |
Maryland | | 5/15/2020 | | | Undefined | | | Annual registration and reporting deadlines for charities and professional solicitors have been extended to 30 days after the state of emergency is terminated. | | |
Massachusetts | | 5/15/2020 | | | Undefined | | | “At this point we haven’t set a concrete deadline but we are working on it. For now, we are expecting reasonable delays. Please keep an eye on our website for any updates.” | | |
Michigan | | 7 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: Recently, the state has been giving an additional month to file (licenses that expire 7/31 are now pushed to 8/30). This is not necessarily how they are treating all filings. Most organizations do not have a May 15 filing deadline in this state. | | |
Minnesota | | 5/15/2020 | | | 9/15/2020 | | | The Minnesota Attorney General is granting an automatic 4-month extension for any filings due between April 15 and July 15, 2020. | | |
Mississippi | | 5/15/2020 | | | 7/15/2020 | | | Charities with a 5/15/2020 renewal date are now automatically extended to a 7/15/2020 due date. | | |
Missouri | | 501(c)(3) organizations are exempt from registration | | | N/A | | | N/A | | |
Nevada | | Based on registration date of applicant | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: Nevada has not posted information on their website or responded to our inquiries. However, Nevada generally requires a filing of some kind by the expiration date in order to keep the registration active. | | |
New Hampshire | | 5/15/2020 | | | 7/15/2020 | | | If the entity has already filed an extension so that its due date is April or May, we will grant it until 7/15/2020, but the organization needs to notify us. | | |
New Jersey | | 6 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: New Jersey has not posted information on their website or responded to our inquiries. However, most organizations do not have a May 15 filing deadline in this state. | | |
New Mexico | | 6 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Conditional | | | “We simply request that an extension is requested on the orgs COROS page. Some organizations will not need an extension …some will. Requests can be done easily in less than 60 seconds on COROS.” | | |
New York | | 5/15/2020 | | | Conditional | | | The Charities Bureau currently grants to all registered charities an automatic six-month extension of the deadline for filing an annual financial report. Therefore, for example, organizations whose year-end was June 30, 2019 are required to file their annual financial reports by May 15, 2020. However, any organization whose filing deadline, including the automatic six-month extension, falls after February 15, 2020 will be given an additional six-month extension to file its annual financial reports. | | |
North Carolina | | 5/15/2020 | | | 7/15/2020 | | | Every entity has the capability to extend their renewal requirements up to a total of 90-days. If all the extensions have expired, late fees will still incur. Harbor Compliance note: North Carolina already grants an automatic 60 day extension to all filers. An additional 30 days can be requested (until August 15 for calendar year organizations) by submitting Form 8868. | | |
North Dakota | | 9/1/2020 | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: Renewal filings are due September 1 for all organizations. No information currently exists regarding extensions along that timetable. | | |
Ohio | | 5/15/2020 | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: The state has issued only formal extension to filers with tax years ending 5/31/2019. We are monitoring communications from the Attorney General regarding organizations with tax years ending 6/30/2019. | | |
Oklahoma | | Based on registration date of applicant | | | Unchanged | | | Harbor Compliance note: Oklahoma has not posted information on their website or responded to our inquiries. However, Oklahoma generally requires a filing of some kind by the expiration date in order to keep the registration active. | | |
Oregon | | 5/15/2020 | | | 8/15/2020 | | | Our office is automatically extending the due dates for the CT-12/CT-12F/CT-12S annual financial reports and increasing the maximum extension period so that all reports that were or are due between March 15, 2020 and July 15, 2020 are now due by August 15, 2020. For those organizations that are eligible for a longer extension, please submit your extension request on or before August 15, 2020. For example, if your organization’s 2019 report is initially due on May 15, 2020, please file an extension request by August 15 if you would like to extend the deadline to November 15, 2020. | | |
Pennsylvania | | 5/15/2020 | | | 8/17/2020 | | | Due to the COVID-19 emergency, the following charitable organization registration renewal deadlines, which fall between April 30, 2020, and July 31, 2020, are extended for three months, with the renewal of each registration required to be postmarked by the 15th day of the 14th month following the close of the organization’s fiscal year. | | |
Rhode Island | | Based on registration date of applicant | | | Unchanged | | | “That is not an applicable factor to our process as we already do grant all charitable filers a filing extension upon request. Just email an extension request; either a form 8868 or a .pdf letter request will suffice.” | | |
South Carolina | | 5/15/2020 | | | 7/15/2020* | | | For those organizations with a FYE of (for example) June 30 who extended the due date for the financial report from November 15, 2019 to May 15, 2020, they must file no later than July 15th and do not need to request that extended due date.For those organizations with a FYE of (for example) December 31 that are due on May 15, 2020 will need to request an extension or file one online only if you will not have the report filed by the federally extended due date. If the IRS extends again to August 15th we will follow suit.If a May 15th organization knows they need until November 15th to file the financial report go ahead and request the extension now, the extended date of July 15th does not extend the due date past November 15th. *Harbor Compliance note: South Carolina has two filings due each year, a registration renewal and an annual financial report. Registration renewals are not extended because they do not require financial information. Only the annual financial reports are extended. | | |
Tennessee | | 6 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Unchanged | | | Calendar year filers can take advantage of Tennessee’s 150 day extensions, which can be submitted online. June fiscal year end organizations are currently not eligible for further extension until the Tennessee legislature resumes session in June 2020 and enacts changes. | | |
Texas | | Most organizations are exempt from registration | | | N/A | | | N/A | | |
Utah | | Based on registration date of applicant | | | Unchanged | | | “We are working with organizations who expired April 1, 2020, and cannot file due to the Covid virus, but the Charitable Solicitations Act only requires a copy of the most recently filed IRS form 990. This means that the previous years 990 filing will suffice with any registrations that are past due or coming up.” | | |
Virginia | | 5/15/2020 | | | Unchanged | | | Our renewal date and expiration date is still the same. | | |
Washington | | 11 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Unchanged | | | Our office is taking into consideration the events that are occurring and are handling these as a case by case basis. When possible please proactively communicate regarding which organizations are having troubles submitting their renewals on time. Our office does provide online filing services at: https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/#/Home to allow organizations to submit their renewals and other submissions with electronic signatures. | | |
West Virginia | | Based on registration date of applicant | | | Unchanged | | | For organizations that currently have an extension or request one prior to their expiration date, will automatically get an additional 90 days from their extension date to file. | | |
Wisconsin | | 7/31/2020 and 12 months after charity’s tax year ends | | | Unchanged | | | Wisconsin already gives 12 months for organizations to file their annual financial report. However, organizations that need additional time to file can submit a written request, which are evaluated on a case-by-case basis. There is a second filing due 7/31/2020 for all organizations, which can be done online and cannot be extended. | | |