Other tax-exempt organizations

 

The following is a list of other types of tax-exempt organizations. For more information regarding these types of organizations, download Publication 557, Tax-Exempt Status for Your Organization PDF, or contact the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division.

IRC Section Types of Tax-Exempt Organizations
501(c)(1) Corporations Organized Under Act of Congress (including Federal Credit Unions)
501(c)(2) Title Holding Corporations for Exempt Organization
501(c)(4) Civic Leagues and Social Welfare Organizations and Local Associations of Employees
501(c)(5) Labor, Agricultural and Horticultural Organizations
501(c)(6) Business Leagues, etc.
501(c)(7) Social and Recreation Clubs
501(c)(8) Fraternal Beneficiary Societies
501(c)(9) Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Associations
501(c)(10) Domestic Fraternal Societies
501(c)(11) Teachers' Retirement Fund Associations
501(c)(12) Benevolent Life Insurance Associations, Mutual Ditch or Irrigation Companies, Mutual or Cooperative Telephone Companies, or Like Organizations (if 85 percent or more of the organization's income consists of amounts collected from members for the sole purpose of meeting losses and expenses)
501(c)(13) Cemetery Companies (owned and operated exclusively for the benefit of their members or which are not operated for profit)
501(c)(14) State Chartered Credit Unions, Mutual Reserve Funds
501(c)(15) Mutual Insurance Companies or Associations
501(c)(16) Cooperative Organizations to Finance Crop Operations
501(c)(17) Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Trusts
501(c)(18) Employee Funded Pension Trusts (created before June 25, 1959)
501(c)(19) Veterans' Organizations
501(c)(21) Black Lung Benefit Trusts
501(c)(22) Withdrawal Liability Payment Funds
501(c)(25) Title Holding Corporations or Trusts with Multiple Parents
501(c)(26) State-Sponsored High-Risk Health Coverage Organizations
501(c)(27) State-Sponsored Worker's Compensation Reinsurance Organizations
501(c)(28) National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust (45 U.S.C. 231n(j)
501(c)(29) Qualified Nonprofit Health Insurance Issuers
501(d) Religious and Apostolic Associations
501(e) Cooperative Hospital Service Organizations
501(f) Cooperative Service Organizations of Operating Educational Organizations
501(k) Child Care Organizations
521(a) Farmers' Cooperative Associations