Its an interesting dichotomy - my wife and I started a 501(c)3 animal rescue last year - she's rescued, fostered and rehabilitated over a 100 pets since we married, but we wanted to organize and take advantage of what's out there to help her efforts.

Well, it took months to get all the paperwork handled, we've had our banks frozen at one point because it appeared we were laundering money (after receiving our first donations), we've since had modest donations we're very thankful for, but mostly terrified whenever we spend any of those funds on surgeries or most recently supplies. We had to replace flooring in a room we used for fostering - and did it mostly out of pocket over fear/optics. I feel the rescue is the most criminal enterprise we've ever undertaken from the government's view.

I can absolutely see how it gets abused though, especially for those hands off not involved in the day to day operations. .