To clarify: the Colorado filings aren't "tax" as such, so much as business registration; if they hadn't kept this up, the whole company would have ceased to legally exist, not just fallen out of federal non-profit status.
The point of the federal Form 990 is to provide public insight into the organization's finances, or (for the 990-N) to assert that the organization's revenues are under a certain figure, such that it's reasonable to assume it's doing the right thing without detailed reports; and at least keep contact addresses up to date.
In some respects, the bigger issue around such non-profit revocations is not that RMFC itself might be dodging taxes, but that its notification of 501(c)(3) status may have misled others into making incorrect tax deductions for contributions to them. I don't have any evidence that this has happened, though; it would be more common for pure charities which do not provide services to contributors.
To clarify: the Colorado filings aren't "tax" as such, so much as business registration; if they hadn't kept this up, the whole company would have ceased to legally exist, not just fallen out of federal non-profit status.
The point of the federal Form 990 is to provide public insight into the organization's finances, or (for the 990-N) to assert that the organization's revenues are under a certain figure, such that it's reasonable to assume it's doing the right thing without detailed reports; and at least keep contact addresses up to date.
In some respects, the bigger issue around such non-profit revocations is not that RMFC itself might be dodging taxes, but that its notification of 501(c)(3) status may have misled others into making incorrect tax deductions for contributions to them. I don't have any evidence that this has happened, though; it would be more common for pure charities which do not provide services to contributors.