Texas Charity Registration: No General Requirement
Texas has no general charity registration. Agency page
What Texas's lack of a registration regime means
No general charity-registration filing here
Texas has no general charitable-solicitation registration regime CharityFile tracks. That is not a claim that other states' rules vanish if you solicit there, or that Texas will never adopt a regime. The duties below apply only to some organizations.
Penalties under the state's consumer-protection law
In addition to the request for a temporary restraining order, or permanent injunction in a proceeding brought under Subsection (a) of this section, the consumer protection division may request, and the trier of fact may award, a civil penalty to be paid to the state in an amount of: (1) not more than $10,000 per violation; and (2) if the act or practice that is the subject of the proceeding was calculated to acquire or deprive money or other property from a consumer who was 65 years of age or older when the act or practice occurred, an additional amount of not more than $250,000.
Source: Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §17.47(c) · verified September 16, 2026 (28 days ago) · send source
“In addition to the request for a temporary restraining order, or permanent injunction in a proceeding brought under Subsection (a) of this section, the consumer protection division may request, and the trier of fact may award, a civil penalty to be paid to the state in an amount of: (1) not more than $10,000 per violation; and (2) if the act or practice that is the subject of the proceeding was calculated to acquire or deprive money or other property from a consumer who was 65 years of age or older when the act or practice occurred, an additional amount of not more than $250,000.”
Duties that apply only to some organizations
- If the organization is a nonprofit corporation formed or qualified in this state
“The secretary of state may require a domestic corporation or a foreign corporation registered to conduct affairs in this state to file a report in accordance with Chapter 4 not more than once every four years as required by this subchapter.”
Source: tcss.legis.texas.gov · verified September 16, 2026 (28 days ago) · send source
- If the organization starts a court proceeding of a kind that state law says involves a charitable trust
“Any party initiating a proceeding involving a charitable trust shall give notice of the proceeding to the attorney general by sending to the attorney general, by registered or certified mail, a true copy of the petition or other instrument initiating the proceeding involving a charitable trust within 30 days of the filing of such petition or other instrument, but no less than 25 days prior to a hearing in such a proceeding.”
Source: tcss.legis.texas.gov · verified September 23, 2026 (21 days ago) · send source
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Texas require charitable solicitation registration?
Texas has no general charity registration. Agency page: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/index.shtml
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