# IRS 990 Nonprofit Filings Scraper (`nexgendata/irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper`) Actor

Scrape IRS 990 filings via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer — EIN, name, address, NTEE code, ruling date, latest revenue, expenses, assets, executive comp %, fundraising gross/net, all filing PDF URLs. For journalists, grant-makers, donors, academic research, competitive nonprofits.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Stephan Corbeil](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 nonprofit organizations

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## 🏛️ 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)

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

### 💻 Code Example — Python SDK

```python
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

```bash
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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### 🚀 Apify Affiliate Program

New to Apify? [Sign up via our referral link](https://apify.com/nexgendata?fpr=2ayu9b) — you get free platform credits on signup, and you help fund the maintenance of this actor fleet.

***

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# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Free-text search (e.g. 'red cross', 'humane society') OR a 9-digit EIN ('581771391' / '58-1771391') for direct organization lookup. EIN input skips the search step and pulls just that one organization with full filing history.

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

Filter to nonprofits headquartered in a specific US state (e.g. 'NY', 'CA', 'TX').

## `ntee` (type: `string`):

NTEE major-group letter (A=Arts/Culture/Humanities, B=Education, C=Environment, E=Health/Hospitals, P=Human Services, Q=International, R=Civil Rights, S=Community Improvement, T=Philanthropy/Voluntarism). Leave blank for all sectors.

## `maxOrgs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of organizations to return (1–500). Each org is one dataset row containing all available 990 filings.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "red cross",
  "maxOrgs": 10
}
```

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

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper").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 = {
    "query": "red cross",
    "state": "",
    "ntee": "",
    "maxOrgs": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "red cross",
  "state": "",
  "ntee": "",
  "maxOrgs": 10
}' |
apify call nexgendata/irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "IRS 990 Nonprofit Filings Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape IRS 990 filings via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer — EIN, name, address, NTEE code, ruling date, latest revenue, expenses, assets, executive comp %, fundraising gross/net, all filing PDF URLs. For journalists, grant-makers, donors, academic research, competitive nonprofits.",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "2cp3XVQdYcVTUMD28"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
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                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
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                "tags": [
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        "/acts/nexgendata~irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper/run-sync": {
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                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                    "required": true,
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                "parameters": [
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
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        }
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    "components": {
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                    "query": {
                        "title": "Search query, EIN, or NTEE code",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Free-text search (e.g. 'red cross', 'humane society') OR a 9-digit EIN ('581771391' / '58-1771391') for direct organization lookup. EIN input skips the search step and pulls just that one organization with full filing history."
                    },
                    "state": {
                        "title": "State (optional, 2-letter)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Filter to nonprofits headquartered in a specific US state (e.g. 'NY', 'CA', 'TX')."
                    },
                    "ntee": {
                        "title": "NTEE major code (optional, A-Z)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "NTEE major-group letter (A=Arts/Culture/Humanities, B=Education, C=Environment, E=Health/Hospitals, P=Human Services, Q=International, R=Civil Rights, S=Community Improvement, T=Philanthropy/Voluntarism). Leave blank for all sectors."
                    },
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                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of organizations to return (1–500). Each org is one dataset row containing all available 990 filings.",
                        "default": 50
                    }
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                                "type": "string",
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                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
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                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
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                                        "type": "string",
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                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
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                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    }
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                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
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                                        "type": "string",
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                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                "type": "string"
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}
```