We have a board member who is reluctant, if not refusing, to provide their home address on our state charitable solicitation registration form. This board member has used their P.O. Box on other filings, but this form is rejecting a P.O. Box. We tried using our office address with suite number but that was rejected. We then tried the office address without the suite number and it did work. Another director said that we need to have a home address. How should we proceed?
I would not force the home address. Most states will accept a blanket use of the office address for solicitation registration. Even if your state says they want a home address, it is unlikely that they will consider the registration incomplete if they don’t get it. If they were to actually read it and ask to have it changed, you could reconsider your position at that time and argue for an exception. But I would not expect that you would hear anything from the state.
In view of the concern about doxing, disclosure of home addresses online can be illegal in some situations. The IRS has asked for home addresses of officers, and directors only if they can’t be reached at the office address. Unfortunately doxing is real, and the ordinary director of a nonprofit corporation didn’t really sign up for that potentiality.
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