Terms Used In Texas Business Organizations Code 2.002

The purpose or purposes of a domestic nonprofit entity may include one or more of the following purposes:
(1) serving charitable, benevolent, religious, eleemosynary, patriotic, civic, missionary, educational, scientific, social, fraternal, athletic, aesthetic, agricultural, and horticultural purposes;
(2) operating or managing a professional, commercial, or trade association or labor union;
(3) providing animal husbandry; or
(4) operating on a nonprofit cooperative basis for the benefit of its members.