Tax Center: E-File Your Form 990-N (e-Postcard)

What is the Tax Center?

The Tax Center is where you file your organization’s annual return with the IRS, right from BeeKeeper. Its first form is Form 990-N, also known as the e-Postcard — the short annual return the IRS asks small tax-exempt organizations to file when their gross receipts are normally $50,000 or less.

Instead of retyping your organization’s information into the IRS’s website, BeeKeeper fills in what it already knows, checks your return for problems before anything is sent, and files it directly with the IRS. When the IRS responds, you’ll get an email and a copy of your accepted return saved for your records.

The Tax Center is included with your BeeKeeper subscription — there’s nothing extra to buy.

Who can file

You need to be an admin on your organization. A 990-N is a federal return signed by a principal officer, so filing sits alongside billing and organization settings rather than everyday bookkeeping — an editor can keep the books, but only an admin can file on the organization’s behalf.
The Tax Center only appears for organizations that file a nonprofit return with the IRS. If your organization is an ASB (Associated Student Body), your funds belong to your school district, which files its own return — so you won’t see a Tax Center link, and that’s expected.

Finding the Tax Center

Look for Tax Center in the left navigation (it uses a document icon). If you don’t see it, you’re either not an admin, or your organization type doesn’t file its own return with the IRS.

Starting a return

Go to Tax Center.
Click to start your Form 990-N for the current filing year.
Review the prefilled information:
- Legal name, EIN, address, phone, and website
- Your principal officer’s name and address
- These are the exact details the IRS checks your filing against, which is why you’re asked to confirm them rather than have them submitted silently.
Check the box confirming your gross receipts are normally $50,000 or less. Next to that checkbox, BeeKeeper shows your income total for the year as a guide — but since that number only reflects what’s been entered in BeeKeeper, the attestation is yours to make, not something BeeKeeper decides for you.
Save and continue to review.

Your filing deadline

BeeKeeper works out your due date from your organization’s own fiscal year — a Form 990-N is due by the 15th day of the 5th month after your fiscal year ends. For example, an organization with a June 30 fiscal year end sees a deadline of November 15; a December 31 fiscal year end sees May 15. If your filing window has already passed, the Tax Center tells you that directly instead of just showing a date.

Review before you file

Before anything is sent to the IRS, BeeKeeper runs your return through the same rules engine the IRS uses to validate 990-N filings. This catches problems — like a mismatched EIN or an unsupported tax year — while they’re still free and easy to fix, instead of after the IRS has already seen them. Fix anything flagged, then continue to transmit.

Filing and what happens next

Once you transmit, BeeKeeper sends your return directly to the IRS — there’s no separate website to visit or data to re-enter. Most organizations hear back within minutes:

Accepted: You’ll get an email, and the accepted return is saved in your Tax Center as your proof of filing. You can come back and download it any time.
Rejected: You’ll see the IRS’s reason and error code laid out next to everything you submitted, so you can compare it against your IRS determination letter, fix the problem, and re-file the same return — no need to start over.

Filing history

Every return you’ve filed stays listed in your Tax Center, so last year’s 990-N is right there when an auditor, your board, or an incoming treasurer needs to see it.

Common questions

Does this replace my state filing requirement? No. Form 990-N is a federal filing with the IRS only. Check with your state PTA or your state’s charity registration office for any separate state requirements.

What if our gross receipts are over $50,000? Form 990-N is only for organizations whose gross receipts are normally $50,000 or less. If you’re over that threshold, you’ll need to file Form 990-EZ or Form 990 instead — see Form 990-EZ Tax Preparation for how BeeKeeper can help you gather those numbers.

Can I edit a return after I’ve transmitted it? Once a return has been successfully transmitted, it’s locked as your filing record. If the IRS rejects it, you can edit and re-file that same return in place.

Why don’t I see a Tax Center link? You need to be an admin, and your organization needs to be one that files its own nonprofit return with the IRS (this excludes ASBs, whose funds are filed under their school district).