Can you form a temporary nonprofit?
<p>Can you start a 501c3 organization to complete a project, collect donations, do the project, donate all leftover money to another 501c3 with similar goals, then dissolve the organization? It would exist for a year at the most.</p>

<p>Yes.</p>
<p>Getting all of the 501(c)(3) recognition paperwork processed in that time frame could be challenging, but there is nothing that requires a 501(c)(3) to have an infinite intended duration.</p>

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