Recess prepares the yearly IRS and Illinois filings for PTOs, booster clubs, and youth sports leagues. $149 a year, flat.
The e-Postcard has no late fee, so a missed year is easy to shrug off. The third one isn’t. Once status is revoked, donations to your group stop being tax-deductible, and getting it back means a new IRS application with a $275 or $600 fee.
Illinois keeps its own list. Groups that must report to the Attorney General owe a $100 late fee on a late report. Some PTOs are exempt from Illinois registration. Booster clubs and leagues often aren’t.
Rules from the IRS, IRS user fees, and the Illinois Attorney General.
Pay the $49 deposit and tell us your group’s name. It’s a short online checkout.
Bank statements or your treasurer’s report, plus your officers’ names. Messy is fine. We’ll ask if something’s missing.
Your IRS e-Postcard, and your Illinois Attorney General report if your group has to file one. We check that for you.
When your filings are ready for review, you pay the $100 balance. Nothing is submitted until your officers approve it, and you get next year’s deadlines on one page.
$149/year
For groups that are up to date and want to stay that way.
$499one time
For groups the IRS has already removed from tax-exempt status.
$29/month
For treasurers who want someone to ask all year.
Groups that take in more than $50,000 a year file a longer IRS form. Email us for a quote.
$149 a year, locked for two years.
Pay $49 now to hold your spot. Pay the other $100 when your filings are ready for you to review. Reserve by October 31, 2026. We start work October 20.
Pay the $49 depositIf we can’t start your work, the deposit comes back in full. Either side can cancel by email, and any unused deposit is refunded. Paying the deposit means you agree to the Founding Group terms.
Questions first? hello@recessfilings.com
Annual Filing is $149 a year.
Get Annual FilingQuestions first? hello@recessfilings.com
Form 990-N, the yearly filing for tax-exempt groups that normally take in $50,000 a year or less. It’s due by the 15th day of the fifth month after your year ends. For a June 30 year-end, that’s November 15, or the next business day when the 15th is a weekend or federal holiday.
Maybe not. Illinois exempts a PTO from registration when parents and teachers run it, volunteers do the fundraising, the school is named, all money goes to that school, and it takes in no more than $50,000 in contributions a calendar year. Booster clubs and leagues often do, unless they take in under $15,000 a year and are run entirely by volunteers. We check your group and tell you which applies.
No. Missed e-Postcards can still be filed, and there is no IRS late fee for them. We add them to your Annual Filing for $49 per missed year, so a group that missed two years pays $247 in all. If the IRS has already revoked your status, Rescue covers the catch-up and the reinstatement application. Not sure where your group stands? Check it free.
Your group’s legal name and EIN, your year-end date, the year’s bank statements or treasurer’s report, and your officers’ names. You send it by email.
A small filing-preparation service, started in 2026, built only for Illinois school and youth groups. We are not a CPA firm or a law firm and don’t give legal advice. Our preparer will hold an IRS Preparer Tax Identification Number before preparing any filing.
We fix it at no cost and pay any IRS or Illinois penalty our error caused.
We use them only to prepare your filings. We never share or sell them, and we return or delete them when you ask.