🏛️ IRS 990 Nonprofit Explorer Scraper — Every U.S. nonprofit's IRS Form 990 — revenue, expenses, exec comp, grants

Scrape IRS Form 990 filings — every U.S. tax-exempt organization's annual financial disclosure. Get EIN, organization name, NTEE category, total revenue, total expenses, fund balance, executive compensation, top vendors, grants made, lobbying spend, and program-service narrative.

One actor. One token. Real-time regulator-direct data delivered in structured JSON.

Why NexGenData IRS 990 Nonprofit Explorer Beats GuideStar/Candid, Charity Navigator Pro, and Foundation Directory Online

Feature	NexGenData IRS 990 Nonprofit Explorer	GuideStar / Candid Premium	Charity Navigator Pro	Foundation Directory Online (Candid)	ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer
Cost	$0.05/record pay-per-result	$$$ ($1,500-$10,000/yr seat)	$$$ ($299-$995/yr seat)	$$$$ ($1,800-$4,000/yr seat)	Free (no commercial API)
Coverage	Every IRS 990 / 990-PF / 990-EZ — EIN, name, address, NTEE, revenue, expenses, assets, executive comp, grants given, officers list, mission, fiscal-year	Curated profiles + grants db + financials	Curated profiles + accountability/transparency score	Grant-maker focused, foundation 990-PF mining	Same IRS 990 data, JSON exports, but no commercial license, no support, no SLA
Update frequency	Quarterly IRS 990 release ingest	Quarterly	Quarterly	Quarterly	Quarterly
API access	Apify Actor — JSON/CSV/Excel/Parquet	GuideStar/Candid API (paid tier)	Charity Navigator API (paid tier)	Candid FDO API (paid tier)	ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer JSON (research-only)
Auth required	Apify token (free tier available)	Paid Candid account	Paid CN Pro account	Paid FDO account	None, but no commercial use

Why This Actor Beats GuideStar (Candid), ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, Charity Navigator

• Candid GuideStar Pro is $1,200+/year: GuideStar's paid tier and Foundation Directory Online combined run $1,500+/year. We read IRS-published 990 XML at $0.10 per filing — far cheaper for high-volume research.
• XML-parsed line items: Every 990 line — Schedule A through R — is parsed from the IRS XML. You get compensation tables, grants-out, lobbying expenditure, related-org transactions, fundraising costs.
• EIN + NTEE join keys: Every nonprofit has a canonical EIN. Cross-reference donors and grantees by EIN to build foundation→grantee graphs.
• Executive compensation extracted: Part VII compensation tables — every officer, director, and highest-paid employee with their total comp, bonus, retirement, and other comp.

Feature	This Actor 🏛️	GuideStar (Candid)	ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer	Charity Navigator
Pricing model	Pay-per-result (cents per record)	Per-seat license $5K-30K/yr	Per-seat license $10K-25K/yr	Per-seat license $10K-30K/yr
Free tier	Yes (Apify free credits)	No	No	Limited search only
Real-time freshness	Minutes after source publish	End-of-day refresh	Hourly refresh	Hourly refresh
Data source	Direct from regulator	Mixed proprietary + scraped	Mixed proprietary + scraped	Mixed proprietary + scraped
API access	REST + webhooks built in	Add-on; extra licence	Add-on; extra licence	Limited
Bulk historical	Yes — date-range backfill	Limited download caps	Limited download caps	Limited download caps
Setup time	5 minutes (token + run)	Procurement + onboarding	Procurement + onboarding	Procurement + onboarding

What You Get

Every record returned by this actor is structured JSON with the following fields populated wherever the source filing provides them:

• EIN, organization name, DBA name, address (street, city, state, ZIP)
• Tax year, return type (990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-N)
• NTEE classification, IRS subsection (501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), etc.)
• Total revenue, total expenses, change in net assets
• Program service expenses, management expenses, fundraising expenses
• Officers, directors, trustees, key employees — name, title, compensation breakdown
• Highest-paid employees and independent contractors
• Grants made — recipient name, EIN, amount, purpose
• Lobbying expenses and political activity
• Schedule R — related organizations and transactions

The full output schema is stable across runs — safe to load into Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, or your data warehouse without re-mapping each refresh.

Use Cases

• Fundraising / development teams — Prospect foundation funders — see who's giving to your peer organizations.
• Grant-makers — Verify grantee financials and program-spend ratios.
• Journalists — Investigate nonprofit executive compensation, related-party deals, and political activity.
• Academic researchers — Empirical nonprofit-sector datasets for studying philanthropy and 501(c)(4) dark money.
• Compliance / legal — Verify nonprofit status and public-charity classification.
• Donors — Vet charities by efficiency ratios and exec-comp transparency.
• Watchdog groups — Track 501(c)(4) dark-money flows into political activity.

Quick Start

Install the Apify Python client, set your token, and call the actor:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("nexgendata/irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper").call(run_input={
    "maxItems": 100,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

You can also trigger via cURL:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 100}'

Schedule it on Apify's built-in scheduler for daily, hourly, or every-5-minute refreshes — no infra required.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing on Apify. Primary event: 990 filing at $0.1 per record. An Actor Start fee of $0.00005 applies per run (charged per GB of memory, minimum 1). No subscription, no seat licence, no procurement cycle — pay only for the rows you receive.

For high-volume use cases (100K+ records/month), contact us at NexGenData for volume discounts.

Sister Actors in the NexGenData Fleet

NexGenData publishes the deepest SEC/regulatory actor catalog on Apify. Pair this actor with:

Use case	Actor
FEC independent expenditures — Super PAC spending	fec-independent-expenditures-scraper
LDA lobbying disclosure — 501(c)(4) and trade-group lobbying	lda-lobbying-disclosure-scraper
USAspending federal awards — nonprofit federal grant receipts	usaspending-federal-awards-scraper
NIH research grants — biomedical funding to nonprofit institutes	nih-reporter-grants-scraper
CMS Open Payments — medical-foundation pharma payments	cms-open-payments-scraper
Federal Register rule filings — IRS/Treasury regulatory	federal-register-rules-scraper

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FAQ

Q: Is 990 data public?

A: Yes. IRS Form 990 is a public disclosure required of all U.S. tax-exempt organizations. The IRS publishes 990 XML data.

Q: How fresh is the data?

A: 990 returns are typically filed 4.5 months after fiscal-year end (extendable). IRS publishes structured 990 XML within 12-18 months of filing.

Q: Can I get 990-PF (private foundation) data?

A: Yes — 990-PF is included with the grant-out detail.

Q: What about 990-N postcards?

A: 990-N (e-Postcard) for small orgs is included as metadata only — those orgs file no financials.

Q: Can I filter by NTEE or state?

A: Yes — pass ntee_code, state, or subsection_code to scope.

Q: What's historical coverage?

A: IRS structured 990 XML starts in tax year 2010. Earlier years are scanned image PDFs without structure.

About NexGenData

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