# Nonprofit Financial Lookup — IRS 990, Summarized (`alaudinburki/nonprofit-financial-lookup`) Actor

A nonprofit's financial profile from public IRS Form 990 data: revenue/expense trend year-over-year, assets, liabilities, and the expense-to-revenue ratio — free, keyless, via ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer. Built for grant-seekers researching a funder's giving history and donor due diligence.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alaudinburki/nonprofit-financial-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [alaudin burki](https://apify.com/alaudinburki) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
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## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Nonprofit Financial Lookup — IRS 990, Summarized

Every US 501(c) nonprofit above a size threshold files a Form 990 — public
by law. ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer already parses this into
structured JSON, free and keyless. Grant-seeking nonprofits currently
research a potential funder's giving history by hand, PDF by PDF, on IRS's
own clunky viewer.

This turns a name into a financial profile: **revenue/expense trend,
assets, liabilities, and the latest filing's key figures** — in one row,
not a document to read.

### Input

```json
{ "organizations": ["American Red Cross", "United Way Worldwide"] }
```

An approximate name is fine — ProPublica's own search relevance scoring
picks the best match.

### Sample output

```json
{
  "matchedQuery": "American Red Cross",
  "ein": 530196605,
  "name": "American National Red Cross",
  "city": "Washington",
  "state": "DC",
  "latestFilingYear": 2023,
  "latestRevenue": 3217077611,
  "latestExpenses": 2971106889,
  "latestAssets": 4028321133,
  "expenseToRevenueRatio": 0.924,
  "revenueTrend": "stable",
  "filingsOnFile": 13,
  "latestFilingUrl": "https://..."
}
```

### Typical uses

- **Grant-seeking research** — check a potential funder's actual giving
  capacity and financial trajectory before applying.
- **Donor due diligence** — verify an organization's financial health
  before a major gift.
- **Competitive intelligence** — nonprofits sizing up peer organizations'
  revenue and program spending.
- **Journalism / watchdog research** — spot a revenue or asset trend worth
  investigating.

### Pricing

**$3.00 / 1,000 results** (`$0.003` per organization profile).

### ⚠️ Read before you act

- **Name matching uses ProPublica's own search relevance score** and takes
  the top result — for a common name ("United Way" has hundreds of local
  chapters), verify the returned EIN/city/state is the specific
  organization you meant before relying on the financials.
- **`revenueTrend` compares only the two most recent filings** (±10% =
  growing/shrinking, else stable) — a single-year swing, not a
  multi-year trajectory. Check `filingsOnFile` and pull the full filing
  history yourself for deeper trend analysis.
- **Data lag is real.** Form 990s are filed annually with a real delay —
  `latestFilingYear` may be a year or more behind the current date, which
  is normal for this kind of public filing.

### FAQ

- **Do I need an API key?** No — ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer API is
  free and keyless.
- **What if my organization isn't found?** Either it's below the filing
  threshold (small nonprofits file a simpler form with less financial
  detail, or none at all), or the name needs adjusting — check the
  problems report.
- **What does `expenseToRevenueRatio` mean?** Expenses divided by revenue
  for the latest filing — above 1.0 means the organization spent more than
  it took in that year, a real but not necessarily alarming signal (some
  years draw down reserves intentionally).

### Related actors

- **Financial Complaint Monitor** — the same "official public filing,
  summarized into a profile" pattern, for CFPB financial-company complaints.
- **Federal Award Intelligence** — another public-filing-as-profile actor,
  for federal contract award history.

# Actor input Schema

## `organizations` (type: `array`):

Nonprofit names to look up, e.g. American Red Cross, United Way. An approximate name is fine — the best-scoring match from ProPublica's search is used.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "organizations": [
    "American Red Cross"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per organization, ranked by latest revenue.

## `qualityReport` (type: `string`):

Organizations queried, resolution rate, and problems.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "organizations": [
        "American Red Cross"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("alaudinburki/nonprofit-financial-lookup").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "organizations": ["American Red Cross"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("alaudinburki/nonprofit-financial-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "organizations": [
    "American Red Cross"
  ]
}' |
apify call alaudinburki/nonprofit-financial-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,alaudinburki/nonprofit-financial-lookup"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OvcRTFREY6cMvxhic/builds/PCbeOdPht6nLxiskc/openapi.json