501(c)3 is not a requirement. That is only to have the IRS track you as a ‘non-profit’. An “unorganized church” would have absolutely no reason to be filing anything with the IRS. The IRS wouldn’t know it existed for all intents and purposes because it is doing nothing that needs their attention.
“An “unorganized church” would have absolutely no reason to be filing anything with the IRS. The IRS wouldn’t know it existed for all intents and purposes because it is doing nothing that needs their attention.”
If you have a bank account, you have to have some form of organization—or you the individual are the church. If the church takes in money and deposits it, it has to have something to do with the IRS.
Any time you get money, the IRS believes it needs their attention.