Minnesota does not require member or manager names in its own public LLC filing. Minnesota's own Articles of Organization already omit member and manager names — the organizer is the one public field, so route that role through a formation service rather than yourself. A Wyoming parent above a Minnesota LLC is mainly about stronger, better-tested asset protection, not closing a privacy gap Minnesota's filing doesn't have. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$155 / $135
Articles of Organization fee (online / mail)
Organizer only
No member/manager name on the Articles of Organization
$0
Annual Renewal fee, due December 31
§ 322C.0503
Exclusive remedy on paper, untested for single-member LLCs
Minnesota is more privacy-friendly on its own filing than its reputation suggests, but it stops short of true anonymity. Its Articles of Organization, filed under Minn. Stat. § 322C.0201, ask for the LLC's name, registered office and agent, and the organizer's name and street address — but not an actual member or manager name. The one name that becomes public is the organizer, whoever signs and delivers the filing, which is why a formation service typically fills that role rather than the owner. Because Minnesota's own record doesn't force an owner's name into MBLS, a Wyoming holding LLC above a Minnesota LLC is less about hiding ownership and more about upgrading asset protection: Minnesota's charging-order statute (Minn. Stat. § 322C.0503) reads as an exclusive remedy but permits court-ordered foreclosure under subdivision 3 and remains untested against single-member LLCs, and a separate Minnesota appellate decision (Guava LLC v. Merkel) shows courts here will pierce a sole owner's veil where formalities are lacking — a Wyoming parent, paired with real operating formalities, addresses both gaps.
Minnesota's Articles of Organization, filed under Minn. Stat. § 322C.0201, require only the LLC's name, its registered office and agent for service of process, and the name and street address of the organizer(s) — member and manager names are never a required field. That is a genuinely privacy-friendly filing on paper. The catch is the organizer: whoever signs and delivers the Articles has their name and address entered into the public Minnesota Business & Lien System (MBLS) permanently. Minnesota does not market itself as a no-disclosure state the way Wyoming or New Mexico do, and its own materials describe it as a middle-tier privacy jurisdiction — but on the narrow question of whether a member or manager's name is a mandatory public field, the answer is no, provided a member never signs as organizer.
Because Minnesota's Articles of Organization never ask for a member or manager name, a Wyoming holding LLC doesn't need to occupy a member/manager field the way it does in a true disclosure state like Illinois or Texas — that field simply doesn't exist on Minnesota's filing. What Minnesota does publish, permanently and searchably on MBLS, is the organizer. Naming a formation service or attorney as organizer — rather than signing the Articles yourself — is what actually keeps an individual's name off the Minnesota record. A Wyoming parent above the Minnesota LLC still earns its place on the asset-protection side: Minnesota's charging-order statute (Minn. Stat. § 322C.0503) reads as an exclusive remedy on its face and doesn't distinguish single- from multi-member LLCs, but subdivision 3 lets a court order foreclosure and sale of a member's interest if a charging order won't satisfy the judgment in a reasonable time, and no Minnesota court has yet tested the exclusive-remedy language specifically against a single-member LLC. Separately — and this is a distinct risk from the charging-order question — a Minnesota appellate court has pierced a sole member's veil before (Guava LLC v. Merkel), so formalities matter more here than the statute alone suggests.
Minnesota not requiring a member or manager name doesn't change federal law: beneficial owners of the Minnesota LLC — and of any Wyoming holding LLC above it — must still be reported to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act, which is not open to public search.
Minn. Stat. § 322C.0503 — exclusive remedy on the statute's face, but untested against single-member LLCs by Minnesota courts and subject to a statutory foreclosure exception. Minn. Stat. § 322C.0503 calls the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's transferable interest and does not distinguish single-member from multi-member LLCs on its face, but subdivision 3 lets a court order foreclosure and sale of that interest if a charging order won't satisfy the judgment within a reasonable time — a real gap compared to Wyoming's no-foreclosure rule. No reported Minnesota appellate decision has tested the exclusive-remedy language specifically against a single-member LLC. Separately, Minnesota courts have shown they will pierce a sole member's veil on the right facts (Guava LLC v. Merkel, No. A15-0254 (Minn. Ct. App. 2015)) — a distinct risk from the charging-order question, and one more reason a Wyoming parent with real operating formalities is often preferred above a Minnesota subsidiary.
Minnesota charges no fee at all for its Annual Renewal, due December 31 each year — but missing the deadline triggers administrative dissolution, which quietly unwinds any privacy structure built around the entity. There is no Minnesota franchise tax; pass-through income is taxed to members at Minnesota's graduated personal rates of 5.35% to 9.85%, a top rate among the highest in the country.
Note: Confirm the current $155 online / $135 mail Articles of Organization fee split directly at sos.mn.gov before relying on it: apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/mn.ts lists a single $135 fee labeled as the 'online submission' figure, which appears to have the online and mail amounts reversed compared to multiple independent secondary sources consulted during this build (which consistently show $155 for online/in-person and $135 for mail) — worth a human fact-check against Minnesota's live fee schedule rather than trusting either source blindly. Separately, Minn. Stat. § 322C.0503's exclusive-remedy language remains untested against a single-member LLC by any reported Minnesota appellate decision as of 2026 — treat the charging-order protection as strong statutory language, not court-confirmed doctrine, and don't oversell it in a single-member context.
No. Minnesota's Articles of Organization, under Minn. Stat. § 322C.0201, require the LLC's name, registered office and agent, and the organizer's name and street address — but not an actual member or manager name. The organizer is the one name that becomes public, searchable on the Minnesota Business & Lien System (MBLS).
Minnesota's own filing already keeps member and manager names off the public record. Use a formation service — not yourself — as the organizer so the one public field on the Articles doesn't point back to you, and consider a Wyoming holding LLC as the member on your (non-public) operating agreement for stronger, better-tested asset protection.
Not quite. Minn. Stat. § 322C.0503 calls the charging order the exclusive remedy and doesn't distinguish member count on its face, but subdivision 3 allows a court to order foreclosure if a charging order won't satisfy the judgment in a reasonable time, and no Minnesota court has tested the provision against a single-member LLC specifically. Minnesota courts have also pierced a sole member's veil before (Guava LLC v. Merkel) — a separate risk from the charging-order question, and one more reason a Wyoming parent is often used above Minnesota subsidiaries.
Bottom line: Minnesota's Articles of Organization don't require a member or manager name — only the organizer does that — so a Wyoming parent here is mainly an asset-protection and formality upgrade for a state whose own charging-order statute is untested for single-member LLCs and whose courts have shown they'll pierce a sole owner's veil.