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ProPublica.org Database “Nonprofit Explorer” Allows Free Search of 3 Million Tax Filings of Nonprofit Organizations Held by the US Internal Revenue Service

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The database is here.

See also here for the advanced search interface and explanatory notes on the records and organizations represented in the database, including:

About This Data

Nonprofit Explorer includes summary data for nonprofit tax returns and PDFs of full Form 990 documents.

The summary data contains information processed by the IRS during the 2012-2017 calendar years; this generally consists of filings for the 2011-2016 fiscal years, but may include older records. This data release includes only a subset of what can be found in the full Form 990s.

In addition to the raw summary data, we link to PDFs of full Form 990 documents wherever possible. This consists of a separate release by the IRS of Form 990 documents processed by the agency through June 2016; these documents may contain filings as recent as the 2015 fiscal year.

Which Organizations Are Here?

Every organization that has been recognized as tax exempt by the IRS has to file Form 990 every year, unless they make less than $200,000 in revenue and have less than $500,000 in assets, in which case they have to file form 990-EZ. Organizations making less than $50,000 don’t have to file either form but do have to let the IRS they’re still in business via a Form 990N “e-Postcard.”

Nonprofit Explorer has organizations claiming tax exemption in each of the 27 subsections of the 501(c) section of the tax code, and which have filed a Form 990, Form 990EZ or Form 990PF. Taxable trusts and private foundations that are required to file a form 990PF are also included. Small organizations filing a Form 990N “e-Postcard” are not included in this data.

Types of Nonprofits

There are 27 nonprofit designations based on the numbered subsections of section 501(c) of the tax code. See the list »

How to Research Tax-Exempt Organizations

We’ve created a guide for investigating nonprofits for those just getting started as well as for seasoned pros.

Please see here for an article [“New: You Can Now Search the Full Text of 3 Million Nonprofit Tax Records for Free: Search the full text of nearly 3 million nonprofit IRS filings, including investments and grants given to other nonprofits,” by Ken Schwencke, ProPublica.org, June 6, 2019] on the database.


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