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Know which chapters the IRS lists under your group, then file your yearly Form 15644 yourself, on time.

For the treasurer, secretary or director of a federation, council or association that holds an IRS group exemption for its chapters. Every central organization with a group exemption (church centrals excepted) now files Form 15644 each year. We pull your chapter roster from IRS data, check every chapter, and prepare a Form 15644 worksheet for you to review. You file the form with the IRS yourself.

Looking up your group is free. The full report is $29, one time. A private service, not the IRS.

File free with the IRS: online or by fax (how).

Not sure you have a group exemption? You may have one if your clubs don’t have their own IRS letters. Search your federation’s name to check.

When your Form 15644 window opens and closes

If your year ends Dec 31: this year’s window

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38 days until it closes

Cleanup due for every group exemption letter that existed on Jan 20, 2026, whatever your year-end

89 days left

If you must remove chapters, add a first chapter, or keep one group letter and terminate the others (Rev. Proc. 2026-8 §12.02(2)), file that before this date, as an interim update if your annual window is later. See the cleanup checklist.

Other year-ends have other windows: find your group to see yours. Days counted from today in your time zone.

This season for a December 31 fiscal year-end. The window runs from 90 to 30 days before the year ends (Rev. Proc. 2026-8 §7.01). Other year-ends have other windows.

What the IRS changed this year

Rev. Proc. 2026-8, in effect since January 20, 2026, replaced the 1980 rules for group exemptions. Four changes matter most if you keep the books for a federation.

  • A filing every year

    Each central organization (church centrals excepted) now files Form 15644 every year, in a window from 90 to 30 days before its fiscal year ends. If nothing changed, you still file and say so.

  • The whole group exemption is at stake

    The IRS may end a group exemption when the filing is late or incomplete, or when more than half of its chapters have been automatically revoked for not filing their annual returns.

  • A cleanup due before Jan 22, 2027

    Every group exemption letter that existed on Jan 20, 2026 must complete its cleanup before Jan 22, 2027, whatever its year-end. If your window is later, the cleanup goes in as an interim update.

  • Supervision means more than a 990-N e-Postcard

    Each year you collect each chapter’s finances and activities and remind it how to stay exempt. A copy of its 990-N isn’t enough.

Sources: Rev. Proc. 2026-8 §§4.02, 7.01, 8.01 and 12.02; Form 15644 and its instructions (Rev. 10-2026). A plain-English summary, not legal advice. The Form 15644 guide covers the details, and the glossary explains the terms.

What the report gives you

$29, one time, the same for every group. Your roster, checks on every chapter, and a worksheet for the IRS’s own form.

  1. See your IRS roster

    Every chapter the IRS lists under your group number, in a spreadsheet. Compare it with your own list in minutes, right in your browser.

  2. Catch the problems

    Chapters already revoked (they must be reported on the form, and the IRS removes them from your group), and chapters one missed return away from losing their exemption, while there’s still time to call them.

  3. Get a Form 15644 worksheet

    A worksheet prefilled from that data, keyed to the form’s item letters, with each answer marked for your review. You enter the answers on the IRS’s own Form 15644.

Where each part comes from

What you getWhere it comes from
Your IRS chapter list, as a spreadsheetIRS EO BMF, posted Oct 13, 2026 (the IRS roster file)
Chapters automatically revoked since October 2024, with datesIRS revocation list, includes revocations posted through Oct 13, 2026, matched to your chapter list in the IRS EO BMF as archived Oct 1–3, 2024 (Internet Archive)
Chapters one missed return from revocation, and chapters with no return on record to checkIRS 990-N file, updated Oct 19, 2026
Our estimate of the share of your chapters revoked, with the count it’s based onRev. Proc. 2026-8 §8.01(1)(g) sets the more-than-half rule but doesn’t say over what period or out of what count
A Form 15644 worksheet (not an IRS form): the header items, Part I answers marked for review, the Part III counts and one entry per changed chapter, with copy buttonsForm 15644 (Rev. 10-2026) and the data above
A check of your own chapter list against the IRS list, by EIN or by name and cityRuns in your browser. Your list is never uploaded.
A one-page handover summary for the next treasurer, plus CSV downloads and a printable reportGenerated on your computer

Every number in the report shows its IRS source and that source’s date. We email you a private link to your report.

See a sample report

The report for a fictional garden club federation. Open it to try every tab.

Sample State Garden Club Federation

Group exemption 9999, Sampleville, OR. A fictional group.

IRS EO BMF, posted Oct 13, 2026

Form 15644 window

Oct 2 – Dec 1, 2026

Chapters on file

40

Posted to the revocation list since Oct 1, 2024

4

Our estimate: 4 of 46 chapters listed since Oct 1, 2024 (40 on file now + 4 revoked + 2 that left for other reasons) · 8.7%

One missed filing from revocation

4

Plus 4 with no return on record, to check.

Form 15644 worksheet, Section B: first 2 of 4 entriesA Removal takes only 3a and 3b; the full report adds copy buttons and the reference name and address.

Chapter (reference)3a. Entry3b. EINRevoked
Marigold Bend Garden ClubRemoval00-0020102May 15, 2025
Peony Flats Garden ClubRemoval00-0020101May 15, 2025
Open the sample reportNo sign-up. Try the tabs, the CSV downloads and the roster check. The report is $29, one time, for every group size.

Pricing

One price for every group, posted, no sales call. Filing Form 15644 with the IRS is free, and everything you need to do it yourself is free here. What you’d pay for is the matching: we line up the IRS’s files with your group number, including chapters revoked since October 2024 that no longer appear in today’s IRS roster, and turn the result into a worksheet you copy from. In US dollars; sales tax may apply. Pay by card.

Free, always

Filing Form 15644 with the IRS is free. The do-it-yourself chapter count starts from your own chapter list.

Report

$29 one time

For the treasurer who’d rather not download and match IRS files by hand.

  1. Chapters revoked since Oct 2024 that no longer appear in today’s IRS roster, with dates
  2. Your full IRS chapter roster as a spreadsheet, with each chapter’s status, including the chapters a single missed return from revocation
  3. A Form 15644 worksheet, filled in from IRS data, to copy into the IRS’s own form
  4. A compare-your-list tool that runs in your browser
  5. A handover summary for the next officer

Saves you: finding your chapters in the IRS roster files (up to 1,975,975 rows across regional files; IRS EO BMF, posted Oct 13, 2026), matching them against the revocation list, and working out the worksheet.

Not useful? Email us within 14 days for a full refund, no questions. Pay by card.

Filing Form 15644 with the IRS is free, and you can do it yourself; our free guide shows how. You pay us only if you want your IRS chapter roster, the checks and a filled-in worksheet to copy from.

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Questions

How much does it cost?

The group lookup and the Form 15644 guide are free. The report (your IRS chapter roster, the checks and a Form 15644 worksheet) is $29, one time. Prices are in US dollars, and sales tax may apply. Pay by card. No payment now: reserve a report by email, and when checkout opens, we’ll let you know by email; you’ll pay on keepyourgroup.com.

How is the price set?

One price for every group: $29, one time. A group with 3 chapters and a group with 3,000 pay the same.

Where does the data come from, and how current is it?

All of it comes from public IRS bulk files: the Exempt Organizations Business Master File (the roster), the Form 990-N e-Postcard file and the automatic revocation list. An Internet Archive copy of the IRS roster file, captured Oct 1–3, 2024, lets us see which chapters left your group since then. Every number shows its source file and that file’s date. The IRS updates these files about monthly, and they can lag. In our analysis, revocations usually appear in the IRS file about three months after the revocation date, and 90% appear within 390 days. So check anything important about a single chapter, by EIN, in the IRS’s own Tax Exempt Organization Search. It draws on the same IRS data, so it can lag too.

Do you file Form 15644 for us?

No. We prepare a worksheet and the supporting lists. It is not an IRS form, so don’t fax or mail it. Your organization’s officer enters the answers on the IRS’s own Form 15644, signs it and files it with the IRS, online or by fax, free. We never submit anything to the IRS for you, and we don’t give tax or legal advice.

What happens to our own chapter list?

If you compare your own roster with the IRS roster, the comparison runs in your web browser and your file isn’t uploaded to us. For now we keep only the emails you send us, such as a reservation or a question. The site sets no cookies and runs no trackers. We don’t sell data. See the privacy policy.

What if the report isn’t useful, is wrong or never arrives?

Not useful? Email us within 14 days for a full refund, no questions. We also refund in full if your report never arrived, or if we processed the IRS data for your group wrongly. Gaps or errors in the IRS’s own files aren’t covered; every number shows its source and date so you can check. Write to support@keepyourgroup.com.

Did this email really come from you?

Our emails are plain text, signed by a named person, and sent from an address ending in keepyourgroup.com. They have no attachments, no QR codes, no tracking links and no prices. The only links go to public pages anyone can open, such as your group’s page. We never ask for passwords, IRS account access, Social Security numbers, or card or bank details by email, we never email you a way to pay, and we never file anything for you.

If you’re unsure, don’t click anything in the message. Type keepyourgroup.com into your browser yourself and look up your group: you’ll see the same public facts, and each one can be checked on the IRS’s own Tax Exempt Organization Search. Or forward the message to support@keepyourgroup.com and ask.

Are you part of the IRS?

No. KeepYourGroup is a private service operated by Studio Pyrizhky, in Washington State. We are not affiliated with the IRS or any government agency.

Do you offer ongoing monitoring?

Yes, as an option at checkout: same $29 today, then $29 each year. A monthly check of your chapters, an email when one slips or is revoked, and a fresh report before each window. It renews yearly until you cancel online, and we email you before each renewal.

How do I cancel?

Online, anytime, from the link in your receipt email.

We’re a CPA firm. Can we use this for clients?

Yes. You can reserve reports for client groups; write to hello@keepyourgroup.com. The report gives you the IRS data organized for the form; the professional judgment stays with you.

We’re a church or religious group. Do we need to file?

A central organization that is itself a church, or a convention or association of churches, may file Form 15644 but isn’t required to (Rev. Proc. 2026-8 §7.05). Our free lookup currently lists the groups that IRS codes show as non-church groups. If your group is religious but the central isn’t a church, ask your adviser whether the exception applies.

Find your group’s window

3,081 non-church group exemptions in the IRS file (IRS EO BMF, posted Oct 13, 2026), searchable by number, EIN or name.