The World of Not-for-Profits (990)

Master the Master File

The IRS provides a few Master Files that list all Exempt Organizations with over 2 million organizations listed.

Comparing our Results

The Foundation Trustee Fees: Use and Abuse report, The Nonprofit Sector in Brief and Fast Company through Civis provide some analysis and data summaries that we can try to recreate to validate our data source.

References

Background on 990 IRS Form

• Telling the not-for-profit story through Form 990
• Revised Form 990 Article
• Finding Organization’s 990 Forms
• IRS 990 PDF Form
• Wikipedia: Form 990
• Charity Navigator Rating System
• The IRS is Using Data Analytics on Form 990

Data Stories

• Foundation Trustee Fees: Use and Abuse
• The Nonprofit Sector in Brief

990 data

• Exempt Organizations Master File
• Open990 Data
• Applied Nonprofit Research
• AWS 990 Filings data & AWS Main page

Investigation Ideas

• Top 50 Non-profit Hospitals
• Pay Attention to the Information Reported on Form 990

Other

• IRS Activity Codes