IRS 990 Nonprofit Officers and Compensation

What does IRS 990 Nonprofit Officers and Compensation do?

IRS 990 Nonprofit Officers and Compensation reads the official IRS e-filed returns (Form 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF) of US tax-exempt organizations and returns one row per person: the officers, directors, trustees, key employees and highest-paid employees the return lists, with title, weekly hours, role flags and the pay the organization reports for them. Form 990-PF and Form 990-EZ also give the five highest-paid employees and contractors, which is where the large salaries of private foundations such as the Gates Foundation sit. Look up organizations by EIN or by name, filter by role or minimum pay, and export the result as JSON, CSV or Excel, call it through the Apify API, or plug it into n8n, Make and AI agents through MCP.

The data comes straight from the IRS TEOS e-file archives, not from a third-party search API, so a return is available as soon as the IRS publishes it. When an organization filed an amended return for a period, the latest one is used.

Why use IRS 990 Nonprofit Officers and Compensation?

• Fundraising and prospect research – find who leads an organization, how they are paid and how big the organization is (revenue and expenses are on every row).
• Journalism and watchdog work – compare executive pay across organizations, or across the last few tax years (2022 and later) with the tax-year option, and trace every figure to the filing it came from.
• Compliance and due diligence – list the people behind a nonprofit or private foundation, including related-organization pay and independent contractors.
• Executive search and compensation benchmarking – filter to officers or key employees above a pay threshold.

Example output

organizationName	taxYear	personName	title	role	totalCompensationUsd	baseSalaryUsd	bonusUsd
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES	2024	GAIL MCGOVERN	PRESIDENT & CEO	officer	1313605	685738	600000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES	2024	JENNIFER BAILEY	BOARD MEMBER	director-trustee	0	null	null

{
  "query": "53-0196605",
  "found": true,
  "ein": "530196605",
  "organizationName": "AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES",
  "formType": "990",
  "taxYear": 2024,
  "taxPeriodEnd": "2024-06-30",
  "filedAt": "2025-04-28T14:55:29-05:00",
  "personName": "GAIL MCGOVERN",
  "title": "PRESIDENT & CEO",
  "role": "officer",
  "isOfficer": true,
  "averageHoursPerWeek": 60,
  "compensationUsd": 1296862,
  "otherCompensationUsd": 16743,
  "totalCompensationUsd": 1313605,
  "baseSalaryUsd": 685738,
  "bonusUsd": 600000,
  "deferredCompensationUsd": 14850,
  "filingObjectId": "202511189349301681"
}

How much does it cost?

You pay per person row plus a small fee for starting a run. Pricing depends on your Apify plan: the price per row is lower on paid plans, and the Apify free plan includes monthly credit you can use to try it. A query with no results returns one status row (found: false) that is not charged. Set a maximum spend on the run and the Actor stops when it is reached. The price per row is shown on the Actor page; a large organization such as the Red Cross has around 30 rows per return, a small charity usually 3 to 8, a large private foundation 10 to 30. The Actor uses plain HTTP requests and reads only the part of the IRS archive that holds your filings, so runs are fast on platform resources; the IRS filing index (14 to 28 MB per filing year) is read on every run, which is why one run with many organizations is cheaper than many runs with one organization each.

Input

• Organizations (EIN or name) – 9-digit EINs (with or without the dash) or part of an organization name, at least 3 characters. A name can match many organizations, so pair it with Maximum results.
• IRS filing years – the years in which returns were e-filed, 2024 or later. Leave empty for the current and the previous year, which covers the latest return of almost every organization. Returns e-filed before 2024 are not available.
• Only the latest tax year per organization – on by default; turn it off, and optionally set Tax years, to compare pay over time.
• Form types – 990, 990EZ, 990PF; all three by default.
• Roles – officer, director-trustee, key-employee, highest-compensated-employee, former, independent-contractor. Form 990 reports all six; Form 990-PF and Form 990-EZ report highest-compensated-employee and independent-contractor, while their officers, directors and trustees have no role flags, so setting roles leaves those out.
• Minimum total compensation (USD) and Include independent contractors (the five highest-paid contractors on Form 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF) narrow or widen the people returned.
• Maximum results – total limit across all organizations.

Output fields

Each row describes one person on one return: organization identity (ein, organizationName, city, state, website, revenue and expenses), the return (formType, taxYear, taxPeriodEnd, filedAt, amendedReturn, filingObjectId), the person (personName, title, role, role flags, averageHoursPerWeek) and pay (compensationUsd, relatedOrgCompensationUsd, otherCompensationUsd, totalCompensationUsd). Form 990 filers that complete Schedule J also get baseSalaryUsd, bonusUsd, deferredCompensationUsd and nontaxableBenefitsUsd; these are the amounts paid by the filing organization itself, while pay from related organizations is in relatedOrgCompensationUsd. Independent contractors carry servicesDescription. Fields the form does not report are null, never an empty string.

Form 990-EZ and the officer list of Form 990-PF do not classify roles, so those rows have role set to officer-director-or-key-employee and the role flags are null. The five highest-paid employees listed on Form 990-PF and Form 990-EZ (those paid over 100,000 USD) have role highest-compensated-employee and isHighestCompensated true. Small organizations filing Form 990-EZ usually enter "None" there, so most 990-EZ returns give only officers, directors and key employees. The status message at the end of a run shows how many filings were read and how many rows carry a pay amount.

Is it legal to scrape this data?

The IRS publishes these returns as public records. The Actor reads only public information and does not log in or bypass access controls. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws (including data protection rules) and the source's terms. If you find an issue, open it in the Issues tab; problems are answered within one business day.

FAQ

How far back does the data go? Returns e-filed in 2024 and later, which means tax years from about 2022. Organizations that file on paper or only a Form 990-N postcard have no return to read, and a lookup by EIN for them returns the found: false row; the status message at the end of the run says why a query returned nothing.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads the IRS index and archives live. The IRS adds new e-filed returns continuously; an organization's latest return can lag its filing by a few weeks.

Why is a person's pay 0? Unpaid board members are reported with 0. A missing value (null) means the form did not report that amount.

Why does a name return other organizations too? A name matches any organization whose name contains it: "Gates Foundation" also returns RED GATES FOUNDATION and MARSHALL GATES FOUNDATION. Use a longer part of the name or the EIN to get one organization.

Why do I get fewer filings than expected? A few index entries have no file in the IRS archive yet; the status message counts them.

Can I schedule runs? Yes, use Apify schedules or call the Actor from your own workflow.

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