🏛️ IRS 990 Nonprofit Filings Scraper — ProPublica Explorer Data

Scrape any IRS 990 filing via ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer — full org metadata + multi-year financial extracts. Pull by keyword, state, NTEE sector, or direct EIN lookup. For journalists, grant-makers, donors, academic researchers, and competitive nonprofits.

📦 What you get per organization

• ein, strein (with hyphen), name, sub_name, careofname
• address, city, state, zipcode
• ntee_code, subsection_code, ruling_date
• tax_period, asset_amount, income_amount, revenue_amount
• latest_filing: tax_period/year, total_revenue, total_functional_expenses, total_assets_end, total_liabilities_end, fundraising_gross_revenue/net_income, compensation_pct_current_officer, pdf_url
• all_filings[]: per-year tax_period, tax_year, total_revenue, total_assets_end, pdf_url
• source_org_url — link to the ProPublica detail page

🎯 Use cases

1. Investigative journalism — exec compensation patterns, sudden revenue swings, related-party transactions.
2. Grant-makers — cross-check applicants' financial health and operational scale.
3. Major-donor due diligence — verify a charity's overhead, fundraising efficiency, and trajectory.
4. Academic researchers — empirical studies on nonprofit sector effectiveness or compensation.
5. Competitive nonprofits — benchmark against peer org spend and revenue mix.
6. Fundraising consultants — surface high-revenue prospects in a target NTEE sector.

🚀 Quick start (JSON input)

{
  "query": "red cross",
  "state": "",
  "ntee": "",
  "maxOrgs": 10
}

💻 Code Example — Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
# Direct EIN lookup
run = client.actor("nexgendata/irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper").call(run_input={
    "query": "53-0196605",  # American National Red Cross
})
for org in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(org["name"], "rev:", org["latest_filing"]["total_revenue"])

🌐 Code Example — cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"humane society","state":"CA","maxOrgs":25}'

🔌 Integrations

• Zapier — sync new high-revenue 990 filings into Airtable for grant-officer review.
• Make.com — refresh an internal donor-prospect database monthly with latest 990 numbers.
• n8n — quarterly NTEE-sector benchmarking pipeline.

💰 Pricing (pay per event)

• Actor Start: flat per-run fee (depends on memory).
• Nonprofit organization: charged once per organization pushed to the dataset.

Cost example: 100 orgs ≈ 100 × per-org event + 1 start. Pulling a state's full top-100 is comparable to a single Charity Navigator API call.

❓ FAQ

Q: How is this different from ProPublica's free site? The free site gives you per-org HTML pages; this actor returns JSON-formatted, paginated, multi-year financial data ready for spreadsheets, BI, or custom dashboards. No HTML scraping, no rate-limit babysitting.

Q: Does it return full 990 line items? The actor returns the 30+ most-used summary fields (revenue, expenses, assets, fundraising, exec comp). For deep line-item drilling, follow the pdf_url in latest_filing or all_filings[] to fetch the original IRS PDF.

Q: What's NTEE? National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities — the IRS's nonprofit-classification system. Major codes A–Z; the actor accepts the major-letter and maps it to ProPublica's numeric ID.

Q: How fresh is the data? ProPublica refreshes the database periodically as IRS releases extracts. Most filings are 12–18 months old by the time they appear (standard IRS reporting lag).

Q: Bug reports? Open an issue on the Apify console — responses within 24 hours.

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