🏛️ GuideStar/ProPublica Nonprofit Scraper

🚀 Collect U.S. nonprofit organization data from IRS Form 990 filings in minutes. Filter by state, city, NTEE category, revenue range, and asset size. No coding, no ProPublica account required.

The GuideStar/ProPublica Nonprofit Scraper pulls detailed profiles of tax-exempt organizations using public IRS Form 990 data. Each record includes the organization name, EIN, address, total revenue, total expenses, net assets, NTEE classification, tax-exempt subsection, and filing history. You can filter results by state, city, NTEE category (A through Z covering arts, education, health, human services, and more), subsection code, revenue range, and asset size. Free users can collect up to 10 organizations per run, while paid users can retrieve up to 1,000,000 records.

This tool is built for anyone who needs structured nonprofit data at scale. Grantmakers can screen thousands of organizations by cause area and financial health before making funding decisions. Researchers can analyze nonprofit density and revenue distribution across states and industries. Fundraising consultants can build prospect lists segmented by geography and size. The scraper handles pagination and search logic automatically, delivering clean records you can export to JSON, CSV, or Excel and load directly into your database, CRM, or analysis tool.

Target Audience	Use Cases
Grantmakers and Foundations	Screen nonprofits by cause area, location, and financial size
Nonprofit Researchers	Analyze sector trends using IRS Form 990 financial data
Fundraising Consultants	Build prospect lists segmented by geography and revenue
Due Diligence Teams	Verify nonprofit financial health and filing status
Policy Analysts	Study nonprofit density and spending patterns by state
Philanthropic Advisors	Compare organizations by efficiency ratios and net assets

📋 What the GuideStar/ProPublica Nonprofit Scraper does

• 🏢 Organization profiles - extract names, EINs, addresses, and contact information for every matched nonprofit
• 💰 Financial statements - pull total revenue, total expenses, net assets, and program spending data from IRS filings
• 🏷️ NTEE classifications - segment nonprofits by National Taxonomy category (A=Arts, B=Education, C=Environment, E=Health, P=Human Services, and more)
• 📍 Geographic filtering - narrow results by state and city to focus on specific markets or regions
• 📊 Revenue and asset ranges - filter by minimum and maximum annual revenue or total assets to find organizations of a specific size
• 📅 Filing recency - filter for organizations with recent Form 990 filings to ensure current data

The scraper queries the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer database, which aggregates IRS Form 990 data for over 1.8 million tax-exempt organizations. It iterates through search results, collects structured data for each organization, and pushes records to an Apify dataset in real time. Duplicate organizations are handled automatically.

💡 Why it matters: IRS Form 990 data is public but spread across millions of filings. This scraper gives you structured, filterable access to the key fields that matter for research, grantmaking, and due diligence.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: accounting_period, address, affiliation_code, alternate_name, city, contributions, data_completeness, deductibility_code, ein, executive_compensation, filing_count, filings_with_data_count, form_type, foundation_code, guidestar_url, has_recent_990, investment_income, is_501c3, latest_filing_year, name, net_assets, net_gain_loss, nonprofitRecords, ntee_category, ntee_code, organization_code, other_revenue, other_salaries, payroll_taxes, pdf_url, professional_fundraising, program_revenue, propublica_url, rental_income, ruling_date, secured_mortgages, state, subsection_code, subsection_name, tax_exempt_bonds, tax_period. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: Free users are automatically limited to 10 items per run. Leave searchQuery empty to browse organizations by state and category. The scraper uses a letter-based search pattern when no keyword is provided to cover the full directory.

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up - Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
2. Find the Actor - Search for "GuideStar Nonprofit Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set your filters - Choose state, NTEE category, revenue range, and other criteria
4. Start the run - Click "Start" and monitor results in real time
5. Export your data - Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the dataset tab

🕒 Typical run time: 1 to 3 minutes for 100 organizations. Larger runs with 1,000+ records may take 10 to 20 minutes.

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💡 Pro Tip: Combine the Nonprofit Scraper with the USAspending Scraper to cross-reference nonprofit grant recipients with federal spending records.

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by GuideStar, Candid, ProPublica, or the IRS. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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