About The Foundation

Thank you for your time and consideration, and Welcome to our Fiscal Sponsorship website.

Economic Empowerment Foundation for Exempt Startups & Small Businesses (EEF-501c)™ is a national charitable foundation focused on elevating under-served & ignored market of 501c start-up & tax exempt entrepreneurs with in the small business community. In honor of the charities 10-year anniversary we’ve changed our name (from The Learners Lab Foundation) to EEF-501c™ which now reflects both our intended impact on our Stakeholder Market.

Pardon our dust as we work to update and migrate our web products across the Internet space. Both our main website and all our the other products within the Charitable Collaborative are transitioning to a new environment & platform in addition to name and content updates that are underway. These are all part of a slew of 10th Anniversary progression our volunteers are managing, and we hope will be complete or be back online as soon as possible.

EEF-501c™ a collaborative of volunteers running a growing pool of empowerment charities whose relaunches are staged for the next 12 months. We customize incubator, economic development, finance, communication, B2B, workforce training, and other business assets through our lead Charity.

The Foundation serves as Fiscal Sponsor for future 501c’s at the idea stage to the small business 5 years into their IRS approval as a tax-exempt entity, with the entire collaborative managed thru our parent entity, the 501c Business Incubator Council, LLC, also newly renamed.

Memberships & Charities of the Collaborative

EEF-501c™ works relentlessly to assure its resources, programs, products and services are available to all 501cs. We innovate to establish assets that are unreachable, and will be replicating all our resources, assets, program operations in as many languages as their is a demand for, period.

New launches for 2024 include several membership entities.

We’ve established The National Chamber for Tax Exempt Small Business (NCTSB)™, a stakeholder focused chamber, The Association of Tax Exempt Startups & Entrepreneurs (ATESE)™, a Peer-to-Peer leadership Association for the Founders of 501c’s, and The 501c Startup & Small Business Collective (501cSBC)™, our solutions impact forum we’re publishing as a weekly podcast. Our Helping Hand Fund, Podcasting Business Center & Federal Credit Union & our Fellowship Academy on Leadership & Business Continuity are also in pre-launch phase.

Our memberships are intended to develop peerage among 501c startups & entrepreneurs entering the small business market, foster their RECOGNITION & ACCEPTANCE AS BUSINESS CONCERN, provide a networking platform where they can speak freely and to create visibility for the markets their missions will serve.

Coupled with our other Charitable entities, they will eliminate gaps to business assets that simply should not be there.

As new 501s’s themselves, each Membership entity is being Fiscally Sponsored by The Foundation so their official launch will occur this year to kick off our 10-year anniversary of being a Fiscal Sponsor not just partnering to assistant peer fiscal sponsors.

We’ve had inquiries about joining and despite not yet having leadership in place, EEF-501c™ and our parent the 501c Business Incubator Council has decided to accept membership applications early. A Pre-Launch Membership Package which will bundle the Chamber, Founders Assn and Impact Solutions Forum has been drafted for review. Feel free to check out https://MembershipHQ.org to learn more about each org, the Pre-Launch Membership Package and other details will be published only on the Membership website, so stay tuned!

Meantime, thank you so much for visiting our site and considering us as your Fiscal Sponsor. We look forward to learning more about you, tailoring our incubator network to your needs and hope to serve as your Fiscal Sponsor and welcoming into TASC Clients (technical assistance service center) as well.

Feel free to reach out for a Program Description to share with your Board and other Stakeholders and we look forward to helping your propel your exempt project, program, or organization forward.

Thanks again for your time and stay safe!


EEF-501c™ received its Letter of Determination granting tax exempt status under IRS Code 501(c)3, Sub Charter 509(a)2 designation as a Public Charitable Foundation in February 2015 effective October 2014, our formation date. Monetary contributions enjoy a 50% tax credit.

The 501c Economic Development Collaborative (501cEDC)™ is the dba Trade Name for the Economic Empowerment Foundation for Exempt Startups & Small Businesses (EEF-501c)™.

EIN: 45-5222602 | NAICS: 926110, 541618, 541690, 611430, 541611 | SIC: 9611, 8748 | NTEE: S30, S43 | Membership Entity NTEE: S03, S41, S43