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Nonprofit Explorer is run by ProPublica, a nonprofit, investigative news organization. Our goal is to increase the accessibility of nonprofit information in the public interest. The information in this database comes directly from data published by the federal government, and we do not accept filing submissions or generally alter or remove that data.

I want to report incorrect information about an organization on Nonprofit Explorer.

The way to get information on Nonprofit Explorer corrected is to update it at the source — either the IRS or the Federal Audit Clearinghouse. We update our data monthly, so if you have new or amended filings, or other changes you have already made with the IRS, those should make their way into Nonprofit Explorer.

However, if you want to update information about your organization’s…

Name, city, state or organization classification

This information comes from the IRS’ Exempt Organizations Business Master File, which is updated monthly. Contact the IRS’ Exempt Organizations office for any changes to this.

Financial or employee data

Annual financial and employee data come directly from 990, 990EZ and 990PF documents submitted to the IRS. To correct data in these filings, you must submit an amended return to the agency.

Audit information

Audited financial documents, as well as flags that note auditor findings, come from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse. To correct information related to an audit, you must submit an amended audit. We will then receive that updated information from the FAC.

I want to remove information on Nonprofit Explorer.

Since Nonprofit Explorer hosts public tax documents as submitted to the IRS, we decline to remove information. To fix incorrect filing information, please see the questions above.

I want to submit information to Nonprofit Explorer.

We aren’t able to accept documents directly from an organization — all of our data comes from the IRS or the Federal Audit Clearinghouse. It typically takes a few months for the IRS to process and release filings so that we can upload them to the database. Audits submitted to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse are typically posted to Nonprofit Explorer within a month of their submission.

I want to know when a filing will be available on Nonprofit Explorer.

We update Nonprofit Explorer on a monthly basis. If you’d like to know when an organization’s next filing becomes available, hit the “Subscribe” button under the name on the organization’s Nonprofit Explorer page. We’ll send you an email when we publish a new filing for that organization!

I have a different question that’s not answered above.

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About This Data

What Is This Data?

Nonprofit Explorer includes summary data for nonprofit tax returns and full Form 990 documents, in both PDF and digital formats.

The summary data contains information processed by the IRS during the 2012-2019 calendar years; this generally consists of filings for the 2011-2018 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 and digital copies of full Form 990 documents wherever possible. This consists of separate releases by the IRS of Form 990 documents processed by the agency, which we update regularly.

We also link to copies of audits nonprofit organizations that spent $750,000 or more in Federal grant money in a single fiscal year since 2016. These audits are copied from the Federal Audit Clearinghouse.

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 »

Get the Data

For those interested in acquiring the original data from the source, here’s where our data comes from:

  • Raw filing data. Includes EINs and summary financials as structured data.
  • Exempt Organization profiles. Includes organization names, addresses, etc. You can merge this with the raw filing data using EIN numbers.
  • Form 990 documents. Prior to 2017, these documents were obtained and processed by Public.Resource.org and ProPublica. Bulk PDF downloads since 2017 are available from the IRS.
  • Form 990 documents as XML files. Includes complete filing data (financial details, names of officers, tax schedules, etc.) in machine-readable format. Only available for electronically filed documents. Electronic data released prior to October 2021 is also available through Amazon Web Services.
  • Audits. PDFs of single or program-specific audits for nonprofit organizations that spent $750,000 or more in Federal grant money in a single fiscal year. Available for fiscal year 2015 and later.

API

The data powering this website is available programmatically, via an API. Read the API documentation »

About Nonprofit Explorer

Nonprofit Explorer

Browse millions of annual returns filed by tax-exempt organizations with ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer. See details like executive compensation, revenue, expenses and more. Search for an organization or a person, or search the full text of filings.

By Andrea Suozzo, Alec Glassford, Ash Ngu and Brandon Roberts.

Design by Jeff Frankl. Additional development by Ken Schwencke, Mike Tigas, and Sisi Wei.

E-file viewer adapted from IRS e-File Viewer by Ben Getson. Code for scraping audit documents adapated from Govwiki.

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