Start an official Car/Motorcycle club for charity?

Some friends and I have had a crew / car club for years. However it was mostly just hanging out and chilling. now that we are older and some members have or are planning to get motorcycles. we are moving more towards an official auto club. We have desire to return something to our community by starting charity events and the such. We have support but we’re trying to get away from the street crew image and a real club. we have our logo and some local merchants on board to help us (making the patches and such). we are NOT a 1% oriented club and truly wish to benefit the community. However, we haven’t looked into it yet, but we see it hard to do charity events (collecting donations and such) without going through some channels to take care of taxes and such. Also to be official so someone feels better about donating to a real club insted of just a bunch bikers or people in tricked out cars. any ideas to pursue this path are appreciated thank you.
PS- I don’t have internet right now, so it may take a day or so to respond to any feedback. thank you.
Yea, thanx alot Halfass, you were REAL helpful, being a "real" biker. We are not trying to be a biker club per se, but have support of both family riding clubs and the dominant 1% in the area. get your head outta your ass and don’t reply if your not going to help. thanks again to everyone else who answered. but like I just said the community is reaching out to us right now. hopefully we will get established soon.
BTW I didnt mean bikers wernt real clubs, I only ment that from a civilians pov. an established club is prob easier to believe would take the money you give and put to a good cause rather than a bunch of guys on harleys or tricked out cars claiming to be a club

You and your friends hearts are in the right place, but starting a club for charity benefits is not an easy thing to do, alot of legal steps and paperwork. There are many organizations out there ready for someone to help with theirs. When you and your buddies are ready to get out and do good deeds check into places like the local VFW, American Legion, Blue Star Mothers, Warriors Watch, and the one I belong to, the Patriot Guard Riders. The Warriors Watch is young, maybe 50,000 nation wide.
The Patriot Guard is over 185,000 strong to date nation wide. If you are interested in doing things that make a difference give these folks a look see. You can go to www.warriorswatch.org.
.www.patriotguard.org. Then go to YOUTUBE.COM and type in the names and watch videos of them both. By the way, both the Warriors Watch and Patriot Guard have no requirements that you ride a bike, we accept cages as well.
47 years of riding
By the way, we are not a club, no dues, and we are not a gang, just have strong beliefs in doing what is right. We are an organization, period.