🏛️ ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer Scraper

🚀 Export 1.8M+ US nonprofits in seconds. Search by keyword, state, or NTEE category, or look up any organization by EIN. Pull IRS Form 990 financials, addresses, NTEE codes, and filing history. No login, no scraping pipeline.

The ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer Scraper taps the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API and returns clean, structured records covering mission, address, officers, financials, IRS Form 990 filings, NTEE classifications, and tax-exempt status for every US 501(c) organization that has filed with the IRS. The underlying dataset is sourced directly from IRS 990 returns and Business Master File.

Coverage spans 1.8M+ tax-exempt organizations across all 50 states, DC, and US territories, with rich classification by NTEE category (Arts, Education, Health, Human Services, Environment, etc.). This Actor exports them as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under a minute, with two query modes: keyword search across the whole index, or batch lookup by EIN.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Investigative journalists, philanthropy researchers, board governance teams, due-diligence analysts, grant writers, academic researchers, foundation officers	Donor research, board diligence, grant-program analysis, 990 financials, peer benchmarking, FOIA backgrounders

📋 What the ProPublica Nonprofit Scraper does

Two workflows in a single Actor:

• 🔍 Search mode. Keyword search across name, alias, and address. Optional state and NTEE category filters. Returns enriched profiles with full 990 data, not just search hits.
• 🆔 Lookup mode. Batch-resolve an array of EINs to full organization profiles, including filing history and asset / income / revenue.

Each record includes the organization name, address, NTEE classification, IRS subsection code, tax-exempt status, foundation type, financial totals from the latest 990, and a list of filings with and without supporting data files.

💡 Why it matters: investigative reporting, philanthropic due diligence, and grant analysis all start with structured nonprofit data. Pulling it manually means clicking through ProPublica one EIN at a time. This Actor batches the whole pipeline.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: accountingPeriod, address, assetAmount, assetCode, careofName, city, classificationCodes, createdAt, dataSource, deductibilityCode, ein, exemptOrganizationStatusCode, filingRequirementCode, filingsWithData, filingsWithoutData, foundationCode, incomeAmount, incomeCode, name, nteeCode, recordType, revenueAmount, rulingDate, score, scrapedAt, sortName, state, strein, subsectionCode, taxPeriod, updatedAt, url, zipcode. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode (search or lookup), set keyword, state, category, or EIN list.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor pull enriched profiles.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ProPublica, the Internal Revenue Service, or any nonprofit organization. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available IRS-disclosed nonprofit data is collected.

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