Legal Question in Employment Law in New York

The short, but cover all bases answer to your question is "it depends." Generally, the answer would be no, but I would need more information and your question provides certain information but not other information. Non-profit status is not, by itself, going to answer the question, but I do not know what you are doing (for example, if you were in some sort of religious missionary type volunteer work for a church that would be important to the answer). You refer to a "stipend" which is something often given to persons who are students/learners, not regular employees, and that could also be important. I would need to understand more about your situation to give an informed opinion on your question. Feel free to telephone me at 702-383-6085. I am licensed to practice law in New York even though my office is not located there.