{"id":4161,"date":"2019-02-18T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2025-02-07T05:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:50:45","slug":"apply-for-a-non-profit-organization-tax-id-ein-number-how-to-apply-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/apply-for-a-non-profit-organization-tax-id-ein-number-how-to-apply-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply for a Non-Profit Organization Tax ID (EIN) Number | How to Apply Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display: none!important;\">Does a non-profit organization need an EIN number? The answer is yes. EIN stands for Employer Identification Number, but these numbers aren&#8217;t just for employers. Instead, the EIN acts as a unique tax ID, and you must include this number on a range of government documents, tax forms, and banking applications. In other words, your non-profit organization needs an EIN whether you have employees or not. Here&#8217;s a closer look at the details so you know what to expect.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does a non-profit organization need an EIN number? The answer is yes. EIN stands for Employer Identification Number, but these numbers aren&#8217;t just for employers. Instead, the EIN acts as a unique tax ID, and you must include this number on a range of government documents, tax forms, and banking applications. In other words, your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"irs-zf-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,11],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ein-tax-id-numbers","category-tax-forms","tag-zoomfilings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}