Nonprofit Guide: How to Dissolve & Terminate a Nonprofit in Missouri

This is the guide that every Missouri nonprofit hopes it will never need.

The legally-required steps to dissolve and terminate a nonprofit in Missouri are scattered across the internet and buried in Missouri's nonprofit law.

This guide collects the requirements from the Missouri Attorney General, Missouri Secretary of State, Missouri Nonprofit Corporation Act, and the IRS. Many of the steps are dependent on completing previous steps, so the guide sequences the process in the required order. And the guide provides an estimate of the timeline you can expect to complete the whole process.

This guide applies to organizations with the most common nonprofit governance structure:

• Governed by a board of directors

• Organization does not have "members" in the legal sense (who have the authority to elect the board of directors)

• Public benefit corporation

Following these steps will dissolve and terminate the nonprofit with the State of Missouri and the IRS.