# Nonprofit Form 990 Tracker — Revenue, Expenses & Filings (`m_ctim/nonprofit-990-tracker`) Actor

Look up nonprofits by name or EIN and get their most recent Form 990 filings: revenue, expenses, assets, and a link to the filed PDF. For journalists, donors, and grantmakers doing due diligence without digging through IRS filings by hand.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/m\_ctim/nonprofit-990-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Timothy Kelvin](https://apify.com/m_ctim) (community)
- **Categories:** News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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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.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Nonprofit Form 990 Tracker — Revenue, Expenses & Filings

Look up nonprofits by name or EIN and get their most recent Form 990
filings: total revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities, and a link to the
filed PDF — without digging through IRS filings or ProPublica's site by
hand.

Built for journalists, donors, and grantmakers doing due diligence, and
nonprofits benchmarking against peer organizations.

### Input

```json
{
  "organizations": ["code for america", "27-1067272"],
  "state": "CA",
  "maxFilingsReturned": 3
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `organizations` | array of strings | Nonprofits to look up, by EIN (`"27-1067272"`) or name keyword (`"code for america"`). Name searches use the top match. One lookup is billed per entry. |
| `state` | string (optional) | Two-letter state code to disambiguate name searches with common names (e.g. `"CA"`). Ignored for EIN lookups. |
| `maxFilingsReturned` | number | Max recent filing years to return per organization. Default `3`, max `10`. |

### Output

One record per filing year:

```json
{
  "ein": 271067272,
  "orgName": "Code For America Labs",
  "nteeCode": "W20",
  "city": "San Francisco",
  "state": "CA",
  "taxYear": 2023,
  "totalRevenue": 37925846,
  "totalExpenses": 43413036,
  "totalAssetsEnd": 86095198,
  "totalLiabilitiesEnd": 895892,
  "filingUpdatedAt": "2025-08-05T16:08:40.814Z",
  "pdfUrl": "https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/download-filing?path=..."
}
```

An organization with no e-filed 990 data on record returns no items but
is still billed once for the lookup.

### How it works

Direct calls to the official [ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API](https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/),
built on IRS Form 990 e-file data. No proxy, no scraping.

### Pricing note

Billed per **organization checked**, not per filing year returned — one
charge per entry whether it has 1 or 10 matching filings.

### Related products

- [Grant Opportunity Tracker](https://github.com/timmKal01/grant-opportunity-tracker) — new federal funding a nonprofit could apply for, rather than its own past filings
- [SEC 8-K Material Event Tracker](https://github.com/timmKal01/sec-8k-material-event-tracker) — the for-profit equivalent: material events from public company filings

# Actor input Schema

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

Nonprofits to look up, by EIN (e.g. "27-1067272") or name keyword (e.g. "code for america"). Name searches use the top match. One lookup is billed per entry.

## `state` (type: `string`):

Two-letter state code to disambiguate name searches with common names (e.g. "CA"). Ignored for EIN lookups.

## `maxFilingsReturned` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of most recent Form 990 filing years to return per organization.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "organizations": [
    "code for america"
  ],
  "maxFilingsReturned": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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": [
        "code for america"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("m_ctim/nonprofit-990-tracker").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": ["code for america"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("m_ctim/nonprofit-990-tracker").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": [
    "code for america"
  ]
}' |
apify call m_ctim/nonprofit-990-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,m_ctim/nonprofit-990-tracker"
        }
    }
}

```

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/ecS2rdEHm7pBNuuDJ/builds/Yz57kxsfvJh45kXl1/openapi.json