US Funeral Industry Licenses — Homes, Directors & Crematories

The funeral industry's official license rolls, in one clean feed. Funeral homes, funeral directors, embalmers, crematories, cemetery licensees, and prepaid-funeral sellers — pulled straight from state government registries and normalized into one format, with lead flags computed for you. States included: Illinois (funeral and cemetery boards), Delaware, and Texas preneed sellers. Every state that publishes its full license roster through an official data feed gets added as we find it - no request needed.

Who this is for

• Suppliers to the death-care industry — caskets, urns, vaults, embalming supplies, management software, preneed insurance. The new licenses filter hands you every newly licensed director and newly opened establishment: prospects nobody else has called yet.
• Funeral home acquirers & consolidators — a complete establishment roster by state, county, and city for mapping markets and finding targets.
• Recruiters & staffing — every licensed director and embalmer in a state, with license status and disciplinary history flags.
• Continuing-education and renewal-services providers — the expiring soon filter shows exactly when renewal season hits. (Illinois renews every funeral license in the state on the same date — over 3,000 licensees needing CE hours in the same window.)
• Preneed & insurance compliance teams — Texas's official registry of licensed prepaid funeral contract sellers, with addresses and phone numbers.

What you get

One normalized record per license:

{
    "state": "IL",
    "record_type": "individual",
    "license_type": "FUNERAL AND EMBALMER — LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER",
    "license_number": "034017507",
    "name": "KENNEDY JACOBS",
    "city": "DOWNERS GROVE",
    "status": "ACTIVE",
    "issue_date": "2019-06-12",
    "expiration_date": "2027-05-31",
    "expires_in_days": 277,
    "is_expiring_soon": true,
    "is_new_license": false,
    "ever_disciplined": false,
    "lead_reasons": ["License expires in 277 days"],
    "source": "Illinois IDFPR Professional Licensing roster"
}

Business records (funeral homes, crematories, establishments) carry the business name; Texas preneed records include street address and phone. Export to Excel, CSV, or JSON in one click, or pull on a schedule via API.

How to use it

1. Pick your states (or leave empty for all).
2. Pick a record filter: all records, licenses expiring soon (set the window), or recently issued licenses (set the window).
3. Choose businesses, individuals, or both, and whether to include lapsed licenses.
4. Set maximum records — you're only charged for what's delivered.

One schema across every state

Every licence roster in this catalogue delivers the same columns, in the same order, meaning the same thing — whichever state or profession the records came from. Stack this dataset on top of any other KempData roster and the columns line up.

That takes real work. Illinois writes a lapsed licensee as NOT RENEWED in block capitals; Delaware writes the identical situation as Delinquent. Both arrive here as status: "lapsed". Names arrive SHOUTING and glued together; they leave as full_name, first_name, middle_name, last_name in proper case. Dates are MM/DD/YYYY, with an _iso twin for spreadsheets and imports.

The state's own word is never thrown away. Every translated value ships beside a *_raw twin — status_raw, credential_raw, name_raw — holding the source's exact string, so you can always check our work or apply your own rules. status_basis tells you whether the standing is the state's published fact or computed from the expiration date.

lapsed is worth knowing about. It is the recall pool: people who held the licence, let it run out, and can renew. When you need experienced people in a hurry, that is the list to call.

Full column reference: docs/SCHEMA.md in the source repository.

Data source & fair use

Every record comes from an official state open-data API: the Illinois IDFPR professional-licensing roster, the Delaware Division of Professional Regulation roster, and the Texas Department of Banking's prepaid funeral seller registry. These are public records the states publish for exactly this kind of use — no scraping, no bot games. The Actor reads politely (paged requests, rate-limit handling) and republishes only what the state itself makes public.

Want another state?

State funeral boards publish their rosters in wildly different ways, and they're being added to this Actor in the order people request them. Open an issue and name your state — it moves to the front of the line.

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