Nonprofit 990 Explorer: IRS Form 990 data for US charities and nonprofits

Nonprofit 990 Explorer searches 1.8 million US tax-exempt organizations and returns each one's IRS profile and Form 990 financials: total revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, contributions and officer compensation, year by year, with links to the original filings. Search by name or keyword, state, NTEE category and 501(c) type, or look up organizations by EIN. Data comes from the official, free ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, built on IRS Form 990 e-filings and the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File.

• ✅ Official IRS data through ProPublica's documented public API. No login, CAPTCHA, proxy or API key needed.
• ✅ Search or EIN lookup: name and keyword search, filters for state, NTEE category and tax-exempt type, or a list of EINs.
• ✅ Form 990 financials per year: revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, net assets, contributions, program revenue, officer pay, salaries, with PDF links. Covers 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF.
• ✅ Revenue filters to find organizations of the right size.
• ✅ You pay per organization returned. Filtered-out organizations are free.

Start in one minute

Click Start with the prefilled input:

{
  "query": "food bank",
  "state": "CA",
  "maxResults": 20
}

You get: up to 20 California food banks with name, einFormatted, address, taxExemptStatus, latestFiling (revenue, expenses, assets, officer pay) and five years of filings.

Cost: up to $0.06: 20 organizations × $0.003, plus the $0.00005 actor-start fee.

Use with an AI assistant

Connect the Apify MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client (https://mcp.apify.com?tools=cprussin/nonprofit-990-explorer loads only this actor), then paste:

Use the Apify actor cprussin/nonprofit-990-explorer to find 501(c)(3) animal shelters in Texas with at least $1M in revenue, and list their EIN, city, latest revenue, expenses and officer compensation.

Recipes

Grant prospecting: mid-size health charities in a state

501(c)(3) health organizations in Oregon with $1M–$20M revenue.

{
  "state": "OR",
  "nteeCategory": "4",
  "subsection": "3",
  "minRevenue": 1000000,
  "maxRevenue": 20000000,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Due diligence by EIN

Profiles and ten years of 990 financials for a list of organizations.

{
  "eins": ["53-0196605", "13-1623829", "56-2618866"],
  "maxFilings": 10
}

Fast list of every chamber of commerce in a state

Names, cities and categories only (no financials), which is quicker.

{
  "query": "chamber of commerce",
  "state": "NY",
  "subsection": "6",
  "includeFinancials": false,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Who uses nonprofit 990 data?

• Fundraising and grant-prospecting teams find foundations and peer charities by size, cause and location.
• Sales teams selling to nonprofits (software, payroll, insurance, consulting) build lead lists by budget and category.
• KYB, compliance and payment providers verify a charity's EIN, exempt status and deductibility.
• Donors, journalists and researchers compare revenue, expenses and executive pay across organizations and years.
• Data teams enrich CRMs with official EINs, NTEE codes and financials.

How does the nonprofit explorer work?

1. Enter a search (name, keywords, state, category, tax-exempt type) and/or a list of EINs.
2. The actor pages through ProPublica's /nonprofits/api/v2/search.json results (up to 10,000 matches per search).
3. With financials on (the default), it fetches each organization's /nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/{ein}.json profile and its Form 990 history.
4. Revenue filters are applied and matching organizations are saved to the dataset, one item each.

The actor uses only the documented public API, sends a declared User-Agent, stays at about 4 requests per second and backs off on errors. It returns about 3–4 organizations per second with financials, and 100 per second without.

How do I filter nonprofits?

Field	Description	Example
query	Name or keywords; quotes for exact phrases	"food bank"
state	Two-letter state code	"CA"
nteeCategory	NTEE major group: 1 Arts, 2 Education, 3 Environment/Animals, 4 Health, 5 Human Services, 6 International, 7 Public/Societal Benefit, 8 Religion, 9 Mutual Benefit, 10 Unknown	"4"
subsection	501(c) type, e.g. 3 charities, 4 social welfare, 6 trade associations, 7 clubs	"3"
eins	EINs to look up directly	["53-0196605"]
includeFinancials	Fetch address and Form 990 history (default true)	true
maxFilings	Most recent 990 years to include	5
minRevenue / maxRevenue	Latest total revenue range in USD	1000000
maxResults	Maximum organizations to return	50

What data do you get for each nonprofit?

One dataset item per organization:

{
  "ein": "237111782",
  "einFormatted": "23-7111782",
  "name": "Yolo Food Bank",
  "careOfName": null,
  "address": "233 HARTER AVE",
  "city": "Woodland",
  "state": "CA",
  "zip": "95776-5917",
  "nteeCode": "K31Z",
  "nteeCategory": "Food, Agriculture & Nutrition",
  "subsectionCode": 3,
  "taxExemptStatus": "501(c)(3)",
  "deductibleDonations": true,
  "rulingDate": "1971-05-01",
  "revenueAmount": 20328084,
  "incomeAmount": 20430551,
  "assetAmount": 18624049,
  "latestFiling": {
    "taxYear": 2023,
    "taxPeriod": "2023-06",
    "formType": "990",
    "totalRevenue": 23338085,
    "totalExpenses": 23350748,
    "totalAssets": 19376488,
    "totalLiabilities": 8588506,
    "netAssets": 10787982,
    "contributions": 22785337,
    "programServiceRevenue": 277401,
    "investmentIncome": 177392,
    "officerCompensation": 103333,
    "otherSalaries": 2664449,
    "fundraisingExpenses": 0,
    "pdfUrl": "https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/download-filing?path=IRS%2F237111782_202306_990_2024040522345095.pdf"
  },
  "filings": ["… the latestFiling object, then earlier years …"],
  "otherFilingYears": [2024],
  "profileUrl": "https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237111782",
  "dataUpdatedAt": "2026-10-21T13:29:46.613Z"
}

Field notes

• latestFiling is the newest Form 990 with extracted financials; filings lists up to maxFilings years, newest first. otherFilingYears are years with a filing PDF but no extracted numbers yet (often the most recent year).
• revenueAmount, incomeAmount and assetAmount come from the IRS Business Master File and can be newer than latestFiling.
• officerCompensation is the total paid to current officers, directors and key employees (990 Part IX line 5; compofficers on 990-PF). Per-person pay is in the PDF.
• For private foundations (990-PF), revenue and expenses are the book amounts and netAssets is the fund balance.
• Without includeFinancials, items carry name, city, state, NTEE code and exempt status only.

How much does nonprofit data cost?

This actor is priced per result (pay-per-event):

Event	Price
Organization (one item in the dataset)	$0.003

For example, 1,000 organizations cost $3.00. Organizations skipped by revenue filters are free. If you set a maximum cost per run, the actor stops cleanly when it reaches that limit.

Tips

• Big lists: a single search returns at most 10,000 matches; split by state or category to go further.
• Exact names: put the name in quotes, for example "\"American Red Cross\"".
• Verification: an EIN lookup that returns nothing means ProPublica has no record of it.
• Send results to Google Sheets, a CRM or a webhook through Apify integrations.

Nonprofit 990 explorer FAQ

Where does the data come from? From the IRS (Form 990 e-file data and the Exempt Organizations Business Master File), via ProPublica's free Nonprofit Explorer API. profileUrl links to the organization's ProPublica page.

How current is it? ProPublica updates the master file monthly; new 990s appear as the IRS releases them, usually 6–18 months after the tax year ends.

Does it include churches? Churches are not required to file Form 990, so most appear with profile data but no financials.

Can I use it through the API or with AI agents? Yes. Call it through the Apify API, the MCP server or any Apify integration.

Disclaimer: This actor is not affiliated with ProPublica or the IRS. Data is provided as published by the IRS; check the original filing for decisions that matter.

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