Organizations that are exempt from the charitable solicitation licensing requirement are:

• organizations that receive less than $8,000 in a 12-month period and pay no individuals (even employees) for fund raising services of any kind
  
  
• solicitations that are exclusively for the benefit of a named individual, so long as the individual is specified in the solicitation and so long as no one is compensated for fund raising services
  
  
• churches and religious organizations
  
  
• governmental entities
  
  
• educational institutions
  
  
• veterans organizations that are chartered by the U. S. Congress
  
  
• licensed hospitals and their foundations and auxiliaries
  
  
• private foundations that receive contributions only from the members, directors, incorporators, or members of the families of those individuals
  
  
• organizations that are licensed by the State of Michigan to serve children and families, such as day care facilities
  
  
• organizations whose sole source of funding is another charitable organization that holds a charitable solicitation license, so long as that solicitation license is current