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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

50-115

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Promotes or operates an art gallery, museum or collection in a permanent location or on tour that is open to the public. Tax Code Section 11.18 (d)(14)

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Provides for the organized solicitation of gifts and grants to non-profit human services organizations. Tax Code Section 11.18 (d)(15)*

If this function is checked, answer the following questions.

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a. Does the organization have a volunteer board of directors? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Yes

b. Is the organization affiliated with a state or national organization that authorizes, approves

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or sanctions volunteer fundraising organizations? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Yes

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c. Does the organization qualify for exemption under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), as amended? . . . . . . . . .

Yes

d. Does the organization distribute contributions to at least five other organizations which (1) use the funds for

charitable purposes; (2) are governed by volunteer boards of directors; (3) qualify for exemption under

Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), as amended; (4) receive a majority of their revenue from charitable

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gifts and government agencies; and (5) provide services without regard to their beneficiaries’ ability to pay? . . . . . . . .

Yes

If yes, attach a list of organizations.

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Performs biomedical or scientific research or scientific education for benefit of the public. Tax Code Section 11.18 (d)(16)*

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Operates a television station that produces or broadcasts educational, cultural or other public interest programming and that receives grants from

the Corporation for Public Broadcasting under 47 U.S.C.A. Section 396. Tax Code Section 11.18 (d)(17)*

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Provides housing for low-income and moderate-income families, unmarried individuals 62 years old or older, handicapped individuals and families

displaced by urban renewal through the use of trust assets irrevocably dedicated, through a contract entered into before Dec. 31, 1972, for the sale

of housing to a charitable organization performing the athletic development of boys and girls under 18 years of age. Tax Code Section 11.18 (d)(18)*

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Provides housing and services to people 62 years old or older in a retirement community that provides independent and assisted living services

and nursing services to residents on a single campus, without regard to ability to pay or in which at least 4 percent of community’s combined net

resident revenue is provided in charitable care to its residents. Tax Code Section 11.18 (d)(19)

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Provides housing on a cooperative basis to students of an institution of higher education as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization that is open to all

students enrolled in the institution, governed by its members, and housing is managed by shared responsibility of its members. Tax Code Section

11.18 (d)(20)

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Acquires, holds and transfers unimproved real property under an urban land bank demonstration program established under Local Government

Code Chapter 379C, as or on behalf of a land bank. Tax Code Section 11.18 (d)(21)

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Acquires, holds or transfers unimproved real property under an urban land bank program established under Local Government Code Chapter 379E,

as or on behalf of a land bank. Tax Code Section 11.18 (d)(22)

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Provides housing and related services to individuals who are unaccompanied, homeless and have a disabling condition who have been

continuously homeless for a year or more or have had at least four episodes of homelessness in the preceding 3 years and is owned by a

charitable organization that has been in existence for at least 12 years. The exemption applies to property that is used to provide housing and

related services to individuals described by that subsection that is located on or consists of a single campus owned by a municipality with a

population of more than 750,000 and less than 850,000 or within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of such a municipality. Tax Code Section 11.18(d)(23)

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Operates a radio station that broadcasts educational, cultural or other public interest programming, including classical music, and that in the

preceding five years has received or been selected to receive one or more grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting under 47 U.S.C.

Section 396, as amended. Tax Code Section 11.18 (d)(24)

* A corporation that performs a function that is marked with an asterisk(*) does not have to be organized as a non-profit corporation.

** A charitable organization that performed this function must engage primarily in performing the described function, but may engage in other activities that support or are related to its charitable functions.

5. Does the organization perform, or does its charter permit it to perform, any functions other than those checked

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in question 4? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Yes

If yes, attach a statement describing the other functions in detail.

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