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While the non-profit industrial complex sucks, this won't be used to target the shitty ones (the ones most complicit in that complex). Instead, it will be used against advocacy groups, e.g. non-profits helping trans kids.
Keep in mind as well that if you want your organization to have an operating budget and not be individually liable if some right wing asshole sues you, you need to register some kind of legal entity that will hold and dispense the funds. For many orgs, this is a non-profit. They will use this to effectively limit your ability to raise and use funds without committing a crime or being personally liable (as in they take your car, your house, garnish your wages) for organizing activities.
Unfortunately, the left is very small in the US. Rather than create an impetus for strong underground cash-based networks, this will probably result in successful intimidation and the disposession of some of your comrades.
We have forgotten how to fight and have largely failed to integrate with the masses (such as they are), so if we want to succeed and survive in the imperial core, and I can't stress this enough, we need to organize and educate as fast as we possibly can. Join a decent org, focus on political education and talking to young people and supporting taking action on issues relevant to them that intersect with socialist causes.