🏛️ Charity Navigator Nonprofit Ratings Scraper

Whether you're a donor researching charities, a nonprofit benchmarking your performance, or a researcher analyzing the nonprofit sector, this tool makes it easy to collect structured charity data from Charity Navigator, the world's largest charity evaluator.

The Charity Navigator Scraper collects nonprofit data including names, ratings, scores, financial information, causes, leadership details, and IRS data. Search by keyword, cause, size, state, and rating.

✨ What Does It Do

• ⭐ Charity ratings - collect star ratings (1-4) and overall scores for thousands of nonprofits
• 💰 Financial data - extract revenue, assets, expenses, and program spending from IRS filings
• 🏷️ Cause categories - health, education, environment, human services, and 20+ categories
• 📍 Location data - city, state, and full address information
• 📋 IRS details - EIN numbers, NTEE codes, tax status, and filing information
• 👥 Leadership info - staff details, board composition, and governance policies

🔧 Input

• Search Query - search for charities by name or keyword (e.g., 'Red Cross', 'cancer', 'education')
• Max Items - how many charities to collect (free users get 10 items, paid users up to 1,000,000)
• Cause - filter by cause category (Health, Education, Environment, etc.)
• Organization Size - filter by annual revenue (Small, Medium, Large, Super)
• State - filter by US state (2-letter code)
• Minimum Rating - only include charities with at least this star rating (1-4)
• Include Full Details - fetch financial data, IRS information, and leadership details

{
    "searchQuery": "cancer",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "cause": "Health",
    "minRating": 3,
    "includeDetails": true
}

📊 Output

Each charity record includes up to 35+ data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Field	Description
url	Charity Navigator profile page
name	Organization name
ein	IRS Employer Identification Number
rating	Overall score (0-100%)
starRating	Star rating (1-4)
causes	Cause categories
size	Revenue size (Small/Medium/Large/Super)
totalRevenue	Annual total revenue
totalAssets	Total assets
programExpenses	Program service expenses
totalEmployees	Number of employees
mission	Organization mission statement
website	Official website

{
    "url": "https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/530196605",
    "name": "American Red Cross",
    "ein": "530196605",
    "city": "Washington",
    "state": "DC",
    "rating": 99,
    "starRating": 4,
    "causes": ["International development", "Disasters and emergency management"],
    "size": "SUPER",
    "subsection": "501(c)(03)",
    "totalRevenue": 3804377344,
    "totalAssets": 4565143729,
    "programExpenses": 3219189859,
    "totalEmployees": 18957,
    "mission": "Since its founding in 1881 by Clara Barton...",
    "website": "http://www.redcross.org",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose the Charity Navigator Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual Charity Navigator
Batch collection	Up to 1M charities	Browse one at a time
Multiple filters	Cause, size, state, rating	Limited search
Financial data	Revenue, assets, expenses	Click each profile
Structured output	JSON, CSV, Excel	Web pages only
Automated scheduling	Daily/weekly monitoring	Manual visits
IRS data	NTEE codes, tax status	Scattered across pages

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Configure - set your search query, filters, and how many charities you want
3. Run It - click "Start" and get structured charity data in seconds

No coding, no setup, no manual browsing required.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 💝 Donors - research and compare charities before donating to find the most effective organizations
• 🏢 Nonprofits - benchmark your ratings, financials, and governance against peer organizations
• 📊 Researchers - analyze nonprofit sector trends, funding patterns, and organizational health
• 🏦 Foundations - evaluate potential grantees using financial efficiency and governance metrics
• 📰 Journalists - investigate nonprofit finances, executive compensation, and organizational changes
• 🤝 CSR teams - identify high-performing charities for corporate giving and partnership programs

❓ FAQ

🏛️ What is Charity Navigator? Charity Navigator is the world's largest and most-utilized independent charity evaluator, rating over 200,000 nonprofits based on financial health, accountability, and transparency.

⭐ How does the rating system work? Charities receive 1-4 stars based on an overall score (0-100%) that evaluates financial health, accountability, leadership, culture, and impact measurement.

📋 What financial data is available? With details enabled, you get total revenue, assets, liabilities, net assets, contributions, program expenses, management expenses, fundraising expenses, employee count, and board composition.

⏱️ How long does a run take? Basic mode: 100 charities in about 10 seconds. With details enabled, each charity takes an additional 0.5-1 second for the full profile fetch.

🔍 What NTEE codes are? National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities codes classify nonprofits by type and purpose (e.g., P21 for Red Cross, E30 for Health Care Facilities).

🔗 Integrate Charity Navigator Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate charity research workflows
• Zapier - Get alerts when charity ratings change
• Slack - Get notified about charity updates
• Google Drive - Export charity data to spreadsheets
• Webhooks - Trigger actions when runs complete

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Charity Navigator or any nonprofit organization. It accesses only publicly available data from the Charity Navigator website.