# BRD-058 — Keep the charity evidence bundle together

> A charity brand must retain its organisation name, EIN, charity website and accreditation listing URL as proof of 501(c)(3) standing.

- **Rule ID:** BRD-058
- **Layer:** Brand (`BRAND`)
- **Checks:** `charity evidence bundle`
- **Severity:** BLOCKING — Breaking this rule gets the submission rejected outright.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** External record we cannot query — reported as a warning to verify
- **Fix type:** Supply evidence only you hold
- **Required by:** T-Mobile, Bandwidth, Infobip
- **Applies:** Applies when the use case is CHARITY.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-058/

## Why this rule exists

The charity claim is re-examined whenever a campaign under it is reviewed, and the four items are asked for together because each covers a different substitution — a real charity's name with someone else's EIN, a real EIN with a lookalike website. Charities that assembled the evidence once for the original submission and did not keep it end up rebuilding it under time pressure during a review.

## How to fix it

Keep one folder holding the registered organisation name, the EIN, the charity website URL and the accreditation listing URL, and keep it current — a lapsed Charity Navigator rating invalidates the bundle. Done when all four can be produced in a single reply to a review request.

## Check this yourself

**Can one person produce all four items — registered organisation name, EIN, charity website, accreditation listing URL — in a single reply to a carrier review?**

1. Put the four in one folder where whoever answers a review can reach it, not with the person who happened to file the registration.
2. Re-check the accreditation listing periodically: a lapsed Charity Navigator rating invalidates the bundle.

*What wrong looks like:* The evidence was assembled once for the original submission and never kept. A campaign review arrives with a deadline and the bundle is rebuilt under time pressure.

## Notes

Evidence only the organisation holds. What the user must do is assemble the four items now and store them where whoever answers a carrier review can reach them, rather than relying on the person who filed the registration still being there.