Weirding Centers

Weirding Centers are community spaces where people can come together to create weirdness together. These hybrid vortexes of weird operate as media centers, performance spaces, social club,  private bars/cafes, art space and as sites of ritual weirdness. 

The Weirding Centers will operate as a 501(1)10 or lodge-based nonprofit entity and will be affiliated with the Center of Weirdness which is to be the parent body of The Weirding Network. 

Here is relevant information from the IRS:

To be exempt under IRC 501(c)(10), a domestic fraternal society, order, or association must meet the following requirements:

  1. It must have a fraternal purpose. An organization has a fraternal purpose if membership is based on a common tie or the pursuit of a common object.  The organization must also have a substantial program of fraternal activities.
  2. It must operate under the lodge system. Operating under the lodge system requires, at a minimum, two active entities: (i) a parent organization; and (ii) a subordinate organization (called a lodge, branch, or the like) chartered by the parent and largely self-governing.
  3. It must not provide for the payment of life, sick, accident, or other benefits to its members. The organization may arrange with insurance companies to provide optional insurance to its members without jeopardizing its exempt status.
  4. It must devote its net earnings exclusively to religious, charitable, scientific, literary, educational, and fraternal purposes.
  5. It must be a domestic organization, that is, it must be organized in the United States.

To be exempt, a fraternal organization should apply for exemption.