Hi, I'm Dima Bocha. Here is why we want to know every nonprofit in America
Every dot on this map is a nonprofit, 1,955,467 of them. I built 501c3.help so that the small ones among them spend less time on paperwork and more time on their work.
Hi, I'm Dima Bocha. I live in California, and I run a small nonprofit of my own. We write children's books for kids with ADHD.
Running it taught me how much of a nonprofit's time goes to things that are not the mission. A registration in every state where you raise money, annual reports, deadlines that differ from one state to the next, rules that change without anyone telling you. I kept running into the same walls, and I kept meeting founders who were running into them too. So I decided to build one place that helps all of us. That place is 501c3.help.
Every dot is a nonprofit
The photo above is our map of every nonprofit in the United States: 1,955,467 organizations, one dot each. We put them all on one map because to help a nonprofit, you have to know it first. We want to know every one of them, and to understand what each one needs.
Who we are for
We work for small and midsize nonprofits, the ones run by a founder, a few volunteers and a board that meets around a kitchen table. We help people shape a mission and open a new nonprofit. We help young organizations grow. And for the ones that need it, we take on the operations: the filings, the deadlines, the paperwork that keeps an organization in good standing.
We use technology to do it, AI included. It takes on the routine, so the people on our team have more time for yours, and a person checks every result before it reaches you. What we are after is simple: an organization that stays in good standing, with as little of your time as possible.
Everything here is yours to use
Everything on this site is free to read, and we keep it current. There is a compliance guide for each of the 50 states, built from the state's own agencies and dated the day it was last checked. When a fee or a deadline changes, we publish the change instead of quietly editing the old number. There are 61 short lessons on running a nonprofit, and 54 pages for donors.
Use them, and link to them. Send your board to your state's guide, so everyone works from the same deadlines. Send your donors to our pages for donors, which explain the rules on their side of a gift, state by state, so you do not have to write that yourself.
And tell us what is happening at your nonprofit: a new program, an anniversary, the person who started it all. Send it to The Nonprofit Herald, and we will write the story and put it on the front page, free. Your work deserves to be seen.
If your nonprofit is one of the dots on that map, I would love to hear from you.
About this column
Founder's Notes is the column of Dima Bocha, founder of 501c3.help, in The Nonprofit Herald.
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