What is true now
FLDI is a Missouri nonprofit corporation
Full Living Disability Initiative, Inc. is an active/compliant Missouri domestic nonprofit corporation.
Support FLDI
Raise your hand now. Give later, when the pathway is ready.
FLDI is not yet federally recognized as a 501(c)(3) organization and is not accepting direct charitable donations through this website. If you may want to support the work financially, you can join our notification list now.
What is in progress
Federal 501(c)(3) preparation
FLDI is preparing its own federal application and is not yet federally recognized as a 501(c)(3).
What comes next
A direct FLDI giving pathway
FLDI is building the financial controls, records, and compliance steps needed to accept charitable contributions responsibly once its federal tax-exemption process is ready.
How future support can help
Funding the organization behind the programs.
Early support is not only about launching a visible program. It can help build the governance, accessibility, people, and operating systems that make responsible programs possible.
Organization & compliance
Governance, financial controls, records, administration, and the practical systems needed to operate a nonprofit responsibly.
Accessible technology
Accessible web, intake, communication, learning, and community infrastructure designed around varied support needs.
Mentorship & adult-life resources
Mentor preparation, matching, check-ins, practical guides, relationship and independence resources, and referral boundaries.
Training, moderation & safeguarding
Preparation for mentors and moderators, accessibility practices, privacy, participant protection, and quality review.
Stories & directory infrastructure
Consent-led profiles, editorial workflows, accessible content, and the technical foundation for the planned FLDI Magazine & Directory.
Evaluation & program operations
Outcome tracking, participant feedback, project coordination, and the operating capacity needed to improve what FLDI delivers.
These are planned uses, not a current solicitation or promise that every future contribution will fund every area. Actual use will follow approved budgets, applicable restrictions, and the compliant giving structure in place at the time.
About tax deductibility
Potentially retroactive does not mean guaranteed.
If FLDI files a timely federal exemption application and the IRS approves recognition effective from FLDI's legal date of formation, qualifying contributions made during that recognized period may become deductible. The IRS—not FLDI—determines the effective date.
Until recognition is granted, donors do not have advance assurance that a direct contribution to FLDI will be deductible. FLDI therefore is not promising a tax deduction or tax credit for a contribution made before recognition.
FLDI is also not currently accepting direct online donations through this website. A direct giving option will open only after the applicable federal and state requirements, financial controls, and donation-processing systems are in place.
Support interest list
Tell us how you may want to help.
This is a notification list only. It is not a donation, pledge, payment authorization, or representation that a contribution is tax-deductible.
When FLDI has a compliant giving pathway in place, we can contact you with the current details so you can decide whether you still want to contribute.
No payment information here
Do not enter credit-card, bank, or other financial-account information in this form. FLDI will never ask for payment details through this interest form.
Why the careful wording?
We would rather be clear now than overpromise.
FLDI wants people to be able to support the mission, but the organization is still completing board formation, governance, federal tax-exemption preparation, and financial systems.
When FLDI is ready to accept direct charitable contributions, this page will be updated with the current giving instructions and tax-status information. Until then, this page is only a way to express interest.
Questions about future support can also be sent to contact@thefldi.org.