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Below, you'll find licensing requirements for a range of fundraising activities.
At a glance, you can see requirements, fees, filing instructions, and links to forms for
everything from charitable gaming and cause marketing to professional fundraisers and
charitable gift annuities.
Make sure your fundraising activities meet the unique requirements of each jurisdiction where
you’re soliciting. Feel free to explore, bookmark, and share!
Charitable Gift Annuity licensure is not required on the State level in Rhode Island.
Rhode Island statutes do not address charitable gift annuities, but division of insurance rules exempt charitable organizations from disclosure rules that apply to other entities.
Rhode Island Charitable Organization Registration
Agency:
Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation
Law:
Rhode Island General Laws §7-6-1 and following
Foreign Qualification is Prerequisite:
No
Registered Agent (Special Agency) Required?
No
Fact Checked:
1/16/19
Automatic Exemption
Exemption Eligible Organizations:
Educational institutions, including parent-teacher associations, the curricula of which in whole or in part are registered or approved by a governmental agency as well as all other educational institutions within this state recognized or certified as educational institutions by a generally recognized and accepted regional or national educational accrediting organization
Persons requesting any contributions for the relief of any individual, specified by name at the time of the solicitation, if all of the contributions collected, without any deductions whatsoever, are turned over to the named beneficiary
Any charitable organization that does not intend to solicit and receive and does not actually raise or receive contributions in excess of $25,000 during a fiscal year of the charitable organization, provided none of its fundraising functions are carried on by professional fundraisers and no part of its assets or income inures to the benefit of or is paid to any officer, director, member (if a limited-liability company), trustee, partner, or member of the charitable organization (Not including contributions received from corporations, charitable foundations, government agencies, or a duly registered federated fund, incorporated community appeal, or United Way, shall not be included in determining the total amount of contributions received)
Organizations that solicit only from their own membership. The term "membership" shall not include those persons who are granted a membership upon making a contribution as the result of a solicitation
Persons soliciting contributions solely from corporations, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies
Foundations or associations exclusively for the benefit of religious organizations, education institutions, nonprofit or charitable hospitals, and public libraries
Hospitals that are nonprofit and charitable
Veterans' organizations and their auxiliaries so long as the veterans' organizations are chartered under chapter 6 of title 7
Public libraries
Historical societies duly organized under the laws of this state
Free, not-for-profit, public art museums
Grange organizations and their auxiliaries
Churches or recognized denominations and religious organizations, societies, and institutions operated, supervised, or controlled by a religious organization or society that solicit from other than their own membership. Institutions indirectly or affiliated with but that are not operated, supervised, or controlled by any religious organizations or religious society that own, maintain, and operate homes for the aged, orphanages, and homes for unwed mothers
Volunteer fire and rescue associations
Land trusts duly organized under the laws of this state
Online or mail the form on CD-ROM (paper filings are not accepted)
Agency Fee:
$90 + $3 online filing fee.
Due:
By the anniversary of initial registration.
Notes:
Make check payable to General Treasurer, State of Rhode Island
You must attach an annual financial report.
Fact Checked:
2/22/17
Rhode Island Commercial Co-Venturer Registration
Not required
Commercial Co-venturer licensure is not required on the State level in Rhode Island.
Rhode Island does not currently have a traditional registration requirement for commercial co-venturers, but they may need to follow other regulations before and after fundraising events.
Filing fees depend on your individual situation. We do our best to calculate your filing fees
upfront and collect those fees today so we can get started. Your specialist will determine your
exact filing fees and invoice additional fees if required.
When processing government applications or disbursing filing fees, we may add an order processing fee to cover our administrative expenses.
