Core Sources
Form 990 + IRS
Returns are combined with IRS status and companion datasets for better organization coverage.
Nonprofit
About The Nonprofit Module
The Nonprofit module combines Form 990 filings and IRS status datasets into organization pages, return pages, and searchable nonprofit financial history.
Primary Entities
Organizations
Organization pages aggregate return history, financials, officers, and related status signals.
Linking Key
EIN
EIN is the main identity key used for linking organizations across returns and modules.
Use Case
Financial Review
The module is designed for long-term financial review and cross-linking, not only one return at a time.
What The Nonprofit Module Covers
This module focuses on nonprofit organizations, their filed returns, and the IRS datasets that help explain standing, identity, and filing history.
It is designed to present both organization-level summaries and return-level detail without losing provenance back to the source filings.
How The Data Is Combined
The module merges multiple IRS data sources around organization identity, especially EIN, so one public profile can bring together historical returns and companion status information.
The result is a more complete organization page than a single raw return file can provide on its own.
Cross-Domain Value
The Nonprofit module is especially valuable when another domain can identify the same organization by EIN.
That is what makes the school-to-nonprofit financial links useful: the school page can show key financial context while still linking back to the full nonprofit record.
FAQ
What is the main identity key in the Nonprofit module?
EIN is the main identity key used to merge return history, IRS datasets, and cross-domain links.
Does the module keep individual returns available?
Yes. Organization pages aggregate data, but the underlying return-level views are still first-class public pages.
Is every nonprofit record equally complete?
No. Coverage and completeness vary by source availability, but the module is designed to surface gaps and preserve provenance instead of hiding them.
Can other modules link into nonprofit records?
Yes. Where a stable EIN match exists, the platform can link related records from other domains back to the nonprofit organization page.