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NCCS_BMF,,,1/1/1989,8/31/2016,NCCS,IRS Business Master File,Shena Ashley,datacatalog@urban.org,Irregularly,Street Address,Nonprofits and Philanthropy,High,Open Data Commons Attribution License,Public,Public,The IRS Business Master File of all tax exempt organizations registered with the IRS at the date marked on the file.,Organization,IRS Business Master File,https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organizations-business-master-file-extract-eo-bmf,,"All tax exempt organizations registered with the IRS (all nonprofit organizations with at least $5,000 in gross receipts, excluding religious congregations and other organizations not required to register) filing within 3 years of the given date",Business Master Files Download Site ;; Business Master Files Data Dictionary Site,CSV ;; html,Direct Download ;; View,http://nccs-data.urban.org/data.php?ds=bmf ;; http://nccs-data.urban.org/showDD.php?ds=bmf,,Free,"Internal revenue Service Business Master Files, Exempt Organizations ([Date])",,,https://nccs.urban.org/publication/nonprofit-sector-brief-2018,"Contains information for all registered tax exempt organizations.  Note that registered does not mean ""active.""  BMF data files only contain a very limited selection of Form 990 data fields.  For a larger selection of fields, refer to the NCCS Core files or IRS SOI Sample Files.","Financial fields are provided by the IRS, and are subject to verification.  Where possible, NCCS recommends users use ""NCCS Financial Info"" fields in place of fields provided by the IRS, as these fields represent information cleaned and verified by NCCS (see data dictionaries for more info).  NCCS also recommends users exclude all cases which are flagged ""Out"" on the field ""OUTNCCS"" as these represent organizations deemed out of scope by NCCS.",Nonprofit ;; 990,HTML - See resource link above,,,
NCCS_Core,,,1/1/1989,12/31/2013,NCCS,NCCS Core Files,Shena Ashley,datacatalog@urban.org,Annually,Street Address,Nonprofits and Philanthropy,High,Open Data Commons Attribution License,Public,Public,"NCCS consolidations of the IRS Return Transaction File, containing all organizations of the given type (Public Charity, Private Foundation, or Other Tax Exempt Organization) filing a Form 990 or 990-EZ.",Organization,IRS Return Transaction Files,https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/,,"All active and reporting tax exempt organizations filing a Form 990 or 990-EZ for the given fiscal year, or the most recent fiscal year if information for the given fiscal year is not available.",NCCS Core Data Download Site ;; NCCS Core Data Dictionary Site,CSV ;; html,Direct download ;; View,http://nccs-data.urban.org/data.php?ds=core ;; http://nccs-data.urban.org/showDD.php?ds=core,,Free,"Urban Institute, National Center for Charitable Statistics, Core Files ([Public Charities, Private Foundations, or Other 501(c ) Organizations], Year)",,,https://nccs.urban.org/publication/nonprofit-sector-brief-2018,"Contains information for all tax exempt organizations filing a Form 990 or 990-EZ.  Note that this will exclude organizations falling below the minimum filing threshold for the Form 990-EZ (<$50,000 in gross receipts) as well as organizations not required to register with the IRS (organizations with <$5,000 in gross receipts, and religious congregation).   File will contain all the returns received by the IRS in a certain calendar year as well as returns of organizations that have filed in the preview two years, but do not appear in the present year's files.","Financial fields are provided by the IRS, and are subject to verification.  ""Estimate"" fields represent NCCS calculations for fields appearing on the Form 990 but not provided by the IRS.  Estimates are calculated based on financial proportions for organizations of similar type (NTEE code) and size (expenses) and are intended only for us in large aggregations; for highly specific research, NCCS recommends referring directly to the Forms 990 images.   NCCS also recommends users exclude all cases which are flagged ""Out"" on the field ""OUTNCCS"" as these represent organizations deemed out of scope by NCCS.",Nonprofit ;; 990,HTML - See resource link above,,,
NCCS_CoreFY,,,1/1/1989,12/31/2013,NCCS,NCCS Core Fiscal Year Trend Files,Shena Ashley,datacatalog@urban.org,Annually,Zip Code,Nonprofits and Philanthropy,High,Open Data Commons Attribution License,Public,Public,"NCCS aggregations all individual NCCS Core Files for all organizations of the given type (Public Charity, Private Foundation, or Other Tax Exempt Organization) filing a Form 990 or 990-EZ.  Records organized by organization EIN and fiscal year of filing.",Organization,NCCS Core Files,http://nccs-data.urban.org/data.php?ds=core,,All active and reporting tax exempt organizations filing a Form 990 or 990-EZ between 1989 and year of most recent NCCS Core File update.,NCCS Core 1989-2013 PC Fiscal Year Trend Download Site ;; NCCS Core 1989-2013 PC Fiscal Year Trend Data Dictionary Site,CSV ;; html,Direct download ;; View,http://nccs-data.urban.org/data.php?ds=trend ;; http://nccs-data.urban.org/showDD.php?ds=trend,,Free,"Urban Institute, National Center for Charitable Statistics [PC, PF, or CO] Fiscal Year Trend File  ([Years])",,,http://apps.urban.org/features/nonprofit-gains-and-losses/,"Contains information for all tax exempt organizations filing a Form 990 or 990-EZ for all available years.  Note that this will exclude organizations falling below the minimum filing threshold for the Form 990-EZ (<$50,000 in gross receipts from 2010 to present, <25,000 in prior years) as well as organizations not required to register with the IRS (organizations with <$5,000 in gross receipts, and religious congregation).   Consequently, not all years of financial information will be included for all organizations.  ","Financial fields are provided by the IRS, and are subject to verification.  Only fields provided in each year of the NCCS Core files are included.   NCCS recommends users exclude all cases which are flagged ""Out"" on the field ""OUTNCCS"" as these represent organizations deemed out of scope by NCCS.Information is organized by EIN and fiscal year.  Information is intended for longitudinal analysis by organization.  For measures of the nonprofit sector within a given year, NCCS recommends using the individual NCCS Core File for that given year.  ",Nonprofit ;; 990,HTML - See resource link above,,,
NCCS_Digitized,,,1/1/1998,12/31/2003,NCCS,Digitized Data Files,Shena Ashley,datacatalog@urban.org,Irregularly,Street Address,Nonprofits and Philanthropy,Medium,Open Data Commons Attribution License,Public,Public,Cumulative listing of public charities filing Form 990 and Form 990-EZ from FY 1998 to FY 2003,Organization,Internal Revenue Service scanned Form 990 Data,,,Public Charities filing Form 990 and Form 990-EZ,NCCS Digitized Data Download Site ;; NCCS Digitized Data Dictionary Site,CSV ;; html,Direct download ;; View,http://nccs-data.urban.org/data.php?ds=digitizeddata ;; http://nccs-data.urban.org/showDD.php?ds=digitizeddata,,Free,"The Urban Institute, Guidestar-NCCS National Nonprofit Research Database ([year])","Data set provides information on a number of fields derived from Form 990 data not available through other sources.  However, data set may exclude some organizations filing within the given years.  For aggregate analyses, NCCS recommends using the NCCS Core Files or IRS Business Master Files.",,,"Contains  information for tax exempt organizations filing a Form 990 or 990-EZ between FY 1998 to FY 2003.  Note that this will exclude organizations falling below the minimum filing threshold for the Form 990-EZ (<$50,000 in gross receipts from 2010 to present, <25,000 in prior years) as well as organizations not required to register with the IRS (organizations with <$5,000 in gross receipts, and religious congregation).  Note that the mode of data collection appears to exclude a number of potential organizations, and therefore should not be taken as indicative of the entire population of nonprofit organizaitons in the given years. In FY 1998, the year when the IRS began scanning Form 990s, a number of organizations were probably missed. The number of organizations in 2001 and 2002 is virtually identical, an oddity that appears to be attributable to data processing, not to any reality within the nonprofit sector. Consequently, this data set is not intended for aggregate analysis, but should be considered for panel or other types of analyses.  Furthermore, ",,Nonprofit ;; 990,HTML - See resource link above,,,
NCCS_Miscellaneous,,,1/1/1989,12/31/2016,NCCS,Miscellaneous NCCS Master and Lookup Files,Shena Ashley,datacatalog@urban.org,Irregularly,,Nonprofits and Philanthropy,Medium,Open Data Commons Attribution License,Public,Public,"Collection of NCCS master files, lookup tables, crosswalks, and other miscellaneous files.",,,,,,Miscelleanouse NCCS Master Lookup Files Download Site ;; Miscelleanouse NCCS Master Lookup Files Data Dictionary Site,CSV ;; html,Direct download ;; View,http://nccs-data.urban.org/data.php?ds=misc ;; http://nccs-data.urban.org/showDD.php?ds=misc,,Free,,,,,"Current Master NTEE Lookup (nccs.nteedocAllEins.csv) is the NCCS master list of all tax-exempt organizations, including most current address information, tax exempt status ruling date, and NTEE classificaiton.  This file is updated on a rolling basis with new information.  NCCS highly advises referring to this master list for all analyses of current organizations, joining the information in this data set to other data sets as necessary to ensure research is using the most up to date information",,Nonprofit ;; 990,HTML - See resource link above,,,
NCCS_SOI,,,1/1/1982,12/31/2012,NCCS,IRS Statistics of Income Division Exempt Organizations Sample Files,Shena Ashley,datacatalog@urban.org,,,Nonprofits and Philanthropy,,Open Data Commons Attribution License,Public,Public,The IRS Statistics of Income Files (SOI) contain more than 300 variables for a weighted sample of tax exempt organizations filing a Form 990 or 990-EZ,Organization,The IRS SOI Sample Data Files,https://www.irs.gov/uac/soi-tax-stats-charities-and-other-tax-exempt-organizations-statistics,,Public Charities filing Form 990 and Form 990-EZ,SOI Files Download Site ;; SOI Files Data Dictionary Site,CSV ;; html,Direct download ;; View,http://nccs-data.urban.org/data.php?ds=soi ;; http://nccs-data.urban.org/showDD.php?ds=soi,,Free,IRS Statistics of Income Division Exempt Organizations Sample ([Year(s)]),,,http://apps.urban.org/features/nonprofit-gains-and-losses/,The IRS Statistics of Income Sample Files (SOI) are produced annually by using information from organizations? Form 990. The SOI files include more than 300 variables for all 501(c)(3) organizations with $50 million or more in assets (the threshold has ranged from $10 to $30 million in earlier years) and all organizations filing under sections 501(c)(4) through 501(c)(9) with $10 million or more in assets and a sample of a few thousand smaller organizations per year that is selected to represent the entire universe of nonprofit organizations.,"The IRS SOI files represent the highest quality Form 990 data provided by the IRS, albeit for a limited sample of organizations.  The sample is weighted to be representative of the size of the total population of nonprofit organizations.  Researchers are advised to use the proper weights when analyzing the data in aggregate.  Furthermore, researchers are advised that the SOI weighting only takes into account nonprofit size (by total assets); therefore aggregating SOI files for detailed analysis by other factors (e.g, nonprofit subsector or geography) is not advised.",Nonprofit ;; 990,HTML - See resource link above,,,