Connect and Give verifies organizations against the IRS exempt-organization registry (Publication 78) at signup โ your EIN, checked against the government's own list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible gifts.
"Donors hesitate because anyone can claim to be a nonprofit online."
Organizations verify their EIN against the real IRS exempt-org registry at signup.
Your EIN is validated against the IRS's published exempt-organization data โ over 1.4 million organizations โ not an honor-system checkbox.
Verification protects the thing your fundraising runs on: trust.
If you're in the registry, verification is instant โ no paperwork ping-pong.
At signup.
IRS Pub 78 data, directly.
And donors can tell.