ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION NONPROFIT
FOR THE HANDY CAMP, INCORPORATED
ARTICLE 3
The
organization
will teach the
physically-challenged how to hunt
and fish and work to
increase the physically-challenged access to public lands for outdoor activities.
This corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious,
educational and
scientific purposes including.
for such purposes; the making of
distributions to organizations that
qualify as exempt
organizations under Section
501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any futuie federal tax code.
No part of the net
earings of this corporation shall inure to the benefit of,
or be
distributable to, its members, directors, officers, or other private persons, except that
this corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensaton for services rendered
and
to
make payments and
distrthutions
in
furtherance of the
purposes set forth
in these Articles.
No substantial part of the activities
of this corporation
shall consist of carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation
(except as otherwise
provided by Section
501(h) of the Internal Revenue code), and this corporation Shall not
participate or
intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements)
any political campaign
on
behalf of, or
in opposition to, any candidate for public office.
Not withstanding
any other
provision of these Articles, this organization
shall not carry
on any other activities not permitted to be carried on
(1) by
an organization exempt from
federal income tax under Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code or (2) by
an
organization contributions to which.
are deductible under Section 170(c)(2) of the
Internal Revenue Code.
Upon the
dissolution or winding up of the corporation, its assets
remaining after
payment, or provision for payment, of all debts and liabilities of this corporation
shall be
distributed to a nonprofit fund, foundation or corporation which is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes and which
has established its tax exempt
status under Section 501(c)(3), Interal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future
federal tax code, or shall be
distributed to the federal government, or state or
local government, for a public purpose.
ATTACHMENT A
The Handy Camp, Incorporated
P.O. Box 147
Dagus Mines, PA 15831-0147
EN: 20-4659502
The Handy Camp, Incorporated (HC) is a
recently incorporated
Pennsylvania nonprofit organization dedicated to
making
the outdoor recreation
accessible to the physically challenged.
HC has been established and will be
operated for charitable and
educational purposes. The organization is seeking recognition of exemption from the Internal Revenue Service under
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Handy Camp’s mission is to educate physically
challenged men,
women, children and their
families on
how to hunt and fish and enjoy the great
outdoors. HC will also work to make public lands more accessible to the physically-challenged hunters and fishermen.
Our activities will include providing a lodge for disabled hunters and fishermen and their
families. We will
teach these physically-challenged outdoorsmen
how to hunt and fish and make
these
outdoor activities accessible to them. For example, we may
have
a father, with his physically-challenged son who is confined to a
wheelchair. The father wants to teach his
son
how to harvest his first white tail deer. Our organization
would make this possible by
determining the necessary equipment needed
for this
family
to have a successful hunt. We
would help
teach the
son to shoot a gun or how to use abow and arrow at a range. An HC
volunteer
would then take the father and son into the woods to scout for deer and to find the blind
or area where the
hunters will be settling in to wait for their quarry.
Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code provides tax exemptions to groups
organized and
operated exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary, and educational purposes. The word “charitable”, as used in Section
501(c)(3),
has been
broadly defined to mean “providing
services beneficial to the public interest”. The activities of Handy Camp will
clearly benefit the
public interest Providing the disabled access to outdoor activities is beneficial to the physically- challenged and the community as a whole.
The activities of HC also
serve educational purposes, Treasury Reg.
1.501(c)(3)-1(d)(3)
defines “educational” as instructing the public on subjects useful to the individual and
beneficial
to the comnunity. Teaching people who are interested in
outdoor activities how to
overcome their physical challenges in order to enjoy the activity is beneficial to
HC’S
patrons. The community benefits by having
obstacles to accessibility
removed for its citizens.
The Handy Camp, Incorporated deserves
IRC Section
501(c)(3) status because its programs
serve both
charitable and educational purposes.
Attachment B to
Form 1023
Response to Part IV
The Handy Camp, Incorporated
P.O. Box 147
Dagus Mines, PA 15831-0147
EN: 20-4659502
Our organization has not established a formal fundraising program. We hope to fund our operations by soliciting contributions from individuals and businesses. We will conduct a sporting clays, trap and skeet shooting event as a fundraiser. We may also apply for grants from governmental agencies and private foundations. We will not solicit funds on behalf of any other organization.
