Change log
Every database migration applied to CharityFile, and changes to the fees, deadlines, exemptions, penalties and other state facts in our database, with the date of each. The database writes each fact entry itself and refuses a change that does not name who made it. It also refuses to edit or delete an entry, so a correction always appears as a new entry.
See /coverage for the share of rows whose quote we found in its source and the oldest review per jurisdiction, /api/quality for the machine-readable JSON snapshot, the RSS feed of the newest 200 entries, or the CSV export of every entry.
244 database migrations since Apr 24, 2026, and 1115 fact changes since Sep 9, 2026.
Fact changes
Oct 14, 2026
- Oct 14, 2026PA deadline rule: source quote replaced
Source: pa.gov · send source
“For all corporations (business and nonprofit, domestic and foreign), the deadline is June 30 of each year.”
Made by: CharityFile operator
Sep 23, 2026
- Sep 23, 2026PA deadline rule: due event prior to any compensated person soliciting contributions on behalf of the charitable organization → early enough for the department to approve it before the organization solicits contributions or has contributions solicited on its behalf
Source: pa.gov · send source
“No charitable organization shall solicit contributions or have contributions solicited in its behalf before approval of its registration statement by the department.”
Made by: CharityFile operator
Sep 16, 2026
- Sep 16, 2026PA deadline rule: source url https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/dos/programs/charities/CharitiesSolicitationAct-1-2018.pdf → https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/dos/programs/charities/BCO-10-instructions-REV-2024.pdf; source quote replaced
Source: pa.gov · send source
“Renewal of registration must be refiled (postmarked) no later than the 15th day of the eleventh month following the close of the organization's fiscal year.”
Made by: not recorded
Sep 15, 2026
- Sep 15, 2026PA deadline rule: due event none → prior to any compensated person soliciting contributions on behalf of the charitable organization
Source: pa.gov · send source
“No charitable organization shall solicit contributions or have contributions solicited in its behalf before approval of its registration statement by the department.”
Made by: not recorded - Sep 15, 2026PA deadline rule: extension available 1 → 0; extension days 180 → none; extension notes Up to 11/15 (FYE+11mo15d) "for good cause shown" per §162.5(k). PA Bureau practice prints 11/15 on every certificate of registration as the operative date, but the statute itself is discretionary. → § 162.5(k) is a mailing date not later than the 15th day of the eleventh month after fiscal year end. Current BCO-10 instructions print that date as the renewal due date and do not describe a 180-day extension or a remaining request. Not IRS-conditional.
Source: pa.gov · send source
“This statement must be refiled annually and postmarked by the fifteenth day of the fifth month following the close of its fiscal year in which the charitable organization was engaged in solicitation activities.”
Made by: not recorded - Sep 15, 2026PA deadline rule: offset months 5 → 11; calculation notes Statutory base date: 15th day of 5th month after fiscal year end (FYE+5mo15d) per §162.5(a). Extended date: 15th day of 11th month after FYE per §162.5(k); PA Bureau prints the extended date on each certificate of registration. Encoded as the 15th day of the 5th month after fiscal year end, from the verification quote. → Renewal is the 15th day of the eleventh month after fiscal year end (BCO-10 instructions rev. 1/2024, printed on the certificate). Statute § 162.5(a) is the 15th of the fifth month; (k) is the 15th of the eleventh month. Do not show the 5th-month date the Bureau does not use.
Source: pa.gov · send source
“This statement must be refiled annually and postmarked by the fifteenth day of the fifth month following the close of its fiscal year in which the charitable organization was engaged in solicitation activities.”
Made by: not recorded
Sep 14, 2026
- Sep 14, 2026PA deadline rule: calculation notes Initial BCO-10 must be filed before any solicitation in PA per §162.5(a). No deadline-from-FYE applies until the first annual renewal cycle. → Initial BCO-10 must be filed before any solicitation in PA per §162.5(a). The 30-day clock is 10 P.S. § 162.6(a)(8), verbatim: "Charitable organizations which receive more than $25,000 in contributions shall file the appropriate registration statement within 30 days after the contributions are received." No deadline-from-FYE applies until the first annual renewal cycle.
Source: pa.gov · send source
Quote not recorded in this entry.Made by: not recorded
Fact entries record changes to fees, deadlines, exemptions, penalties, required attachments, agencies, audit thresholds, deadline extensions and conditional duties, including changes made directly in the database. A fee, deadline, exemption or deadline extension entry shows the source quote and link of its row, or says what the entry did not record. Migration entries record every migration applied to the production database. This page shows every entry. The database refuses to edit or delete an entry of either kind. “Made by: not recorded” marks an entry from before we recorded who made each change.