North Dakota requires none on the initial Articles of Organization — but managers/governors, or the managing member(s), must be named on the mandatory Annual Report every year on its public LLC filing. North Dakota's Articles of Organization omit member and manager names, but the Annual Report requires managers/governors or managing member(s) to be named publicly every year — so a Wyoming holding LLC needs to be named in that slot (typically as manager) for the structure to keep an individual's name off North Dakota's recurring public record. See our Wyoming holding company guide and full list of anonymous LLC states for more.
$135
Articles of Organization filing fee
Annual disclosure
Managers/governors named yearly, not at formation
$50
Annual Report due every November 15
§ 10-32.1-45(g)
Charging order exclusivity covers single-member LLCs
North Dakota looks like a privacy state at first glance and partly is — its Articles of Organization ($135) require only an organizer, a registered agent, and a management-structure designation, with no member or manager name. What changes the picture is the Annual Report: N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-89 requires the names and addresses of managers/governors or the managing member(s) every year by November 15, and that filing is public through FirstStop. So North Dakota's anonymity is real at formation and gone within a year unless a Wyoming holding LLC is named as manager or governor in that filing instead of an individual. North Dakota's other genuine strength is its charging-order statute, N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-45(g), which explicitly extends exclusive-remedy protection to single-member LLCs — a rare, flagship-tier guarantee that makes a Wyoming-over-North-Dakota structure worth the extra layer.
North Dakota's Articles of Organization, filed through the FirstStop portal for $135, ask only for the LLC's name, principal office, registered agent, and a member-managed/manager-managed designation under N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-20 — no member or manager name is required at formation. That changes the moment the LLC's first Annual Report comes due: N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-89 requires the names and addresses of the managers and governors (North Dakota's CEO/Chief-Manager/President equivalent), or of the managing member(s), and that report is a public FirstStop record filed every year by November 15. So North Dakota keeps names off the record at birth but not on an ongoing basis — a materially different privacy profile than a state like Wyoming or Delaware, where no annual filing ever names an owner.
Because North Dakota's Annual Report requires the names and addresses of managers/governors or managing member(s) every year — not just at formation — a Wyoming holding LLC earns its keep here by occupying that disclosed slot instead of an individual. Structure the North Dakota LLC as manager-managed with the Wyoming holding LLC named as the manager (or governor), and the annual FirstStop filing shows the Wyoming entity's name, not a person's. Wyoming's own filings disclose nothing further about who owns that holding LLC. This pairs well with North Dakota's other strength: N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-45(g) is one of the few statutes in the country that explicitly extends exclusive-remedy charging-order protection to single-member LLCs, so a Wyoming parent adds a privacy layer on top of a state whose asset-protection statute is already flagship-tier.
Whatever North Dakota's Articles or Annual Report show, beneficial owners of the North Dakota 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.
N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-45(g) — exclusive remedy, explicitly extended to single-member LLCs, foreclosure barred. N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-45 makes the charging order the exclusive remedy against a member's interest, and subsection (g) states in its own text that the section 'applies to single member limited liability companies in addition to limited liability companies with more than one member' — a rare, explicit statutory guarantee placing North Dakota alongside Wyoming and South Dakota. A creditor cannot foreclose the interest, vote it, or force distributions; the main caveat is that North Dakota courts have published comparatively little case law interpreting the provision.
North Dakota charges no franchise tax on LLCs. The recurring state cost is a $50 Annual Report due on the fixed date of November 15 each year (not an anniversary date), which is also the filing that requires manager/governor or managing-member disclosure. Pass-through income is taxed to members at North Dakota's graduated personal income rates, which top out at 2.5% — among the lowest in the country.
Note: Confirm the $135 formation fee and $50 Annual Report fee directly at sos.nd.gov before relying on them. This page corrects an earlier internal discrepancy over whether North Dakota discloses member/manager identity (see dataDiscrepancyNote) — the Articles of Organization do not, but the Annual Report does, and that annual disclosure requirement is worth re-verifying against the current FirstStop Annual Report form since North Dakota's naming-distinguishability rule was also just recodified effective January 1, 2026.
Note: apps/LLA/data/states/anonymous-llc/nd.ts describes North Dakota's Articles of Organization as naming only the organizer and registered agent and states in its FAQ that 'the owners of the LLC do not appear in North Dakota's public business records' — but apps/LLA/data/states/llc-search/nd.ts (membersPubliclyListed: true) and North Dakota's own Annual Report requirement (N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-89, confirmed against the North Dakota Secretary of State's Maintain Registration and LLC Annual Report pages) require the names and addresses of managers/governors or managing member(s) every year, and that report is public through FirstStop. This page follows llc-search's account: the Articles of Organization keep names off the record at formation, but North Dakota does not deliver ongoing anonymity because of the annual manager/governor/managing-member disclosure — the broader anonymous-llc/nd.ts prose overstates North Dakota's privacy on this point and should be revisited.
Not at formation. The Articles of Organization, filed for $135, require only the organizer, registered agent, and a member-managed/manager-managed designation. But North Dakota's Annual Report (N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-89), due every November 15, requires the names and addresses of managers/governors or managing member(s), and that report is a public FirstStop record — so anonymity doesn't hold past the first year without further structuring.
Name a Wyoming holding LLC as the North Dakota LLC's manager (or governor) rather than an individual. The annual FirstStop Annual Report will then show the Wyoming entity's name in that slot, and Wyoming's own filings disclose nothing about who owns it.
Yes, unusually so. N.D.C.C. § 10-32.1-45(g) explicitly extends exclusive-remedy charging-order protection to single-member LLCs — the same tier as Wyoming — barring foreclosure, voting, or forced distributions. North Dakota courts have published comparatively little case law testing the statute, which is the main reason some owners still layer a Wyoming parent above a North Dakota LLC.
Bottom line: North Dakota keeps names off the Articles of Organization but discloses managers, governors, or managing members every year on the Annual Report — so a Wyoming holding LLC named in that slot is what actually delivers ongoing anonymity here.