State of Delaware Certificate of Incorporation of a Non-stock Corporation
This is a non-stock corporation Certificate of Incorporation in Delaware. The form provided here is simply a sample of what the actual form looks like.
STATE of DELAWARE
CERTIFICATE of INCORPORATION
A NON-STOCK CORPORATION
· First: The name of this Corporation is _______________________________
· Second: Its Registered Office in the State of Delaware is to be located at
__________________________________ Street,
in the City of _______________________________
County of _______________________________
Zip Code _______________________________
The registered agent in charge thereof is ________________________
· Third: The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act of activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware. (If the corporation is to be a nonprofit corporation, please add: "This Corporation shall be a nonprofit corporation.")
· Fourth: The corporation shall not have any capital stock, and the conditions of membership shall be (In lieu of setting out the conditions of membership in the Certificate of Incorporation, a statement may be inserted that the conditions of membership shall be stated in the By-Laws.) as follows:
· Fifth: The name and mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:
Name _______________________________
Mailing Address_______________________________
_______________________________
Zip Code _______________________________
· I, The Undersigned, for the purpose of forming a corporation under the laws of the State of Delaware, do make, file and record this Certificate, and do certify that the facts herein stated are true, and I have accordingly hereunto set my hand
this __________day of _______________, A.D. 20______.
BY: ________________________________
(Incorporator)
NAME: _______________________________
(Type or Print)
Re: 501(c )(3) Corporations
To Whom it May Concern:
If you wish to file a non-profit corporation and qualify as a 501(c)(3) with the IRS please include the following language in your Certificate of Incorporation:
A. The purposes for which the (name of organization) is organized are exclusively religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law.
B. Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles, this organization shall not carry on any activities not permitted to be carried on by an organization exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue law.
C. Upon the dissolution of the corporation, assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the federal government, or to a state or local government, for a public purpose. Any such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which the principal office of the corporation is then located exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said Court shall determine which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes.
State of Delaware
Division of Corporations
General Information 302-739-3073