Non Profit Explorer
- Logo
Nonprofit explorer is a database showing the tax returns and financial details of tax exempt organisations
- URL
- https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
- Keywords
- non profit, financial information, US, propublica, journalism, oversight
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2012
- Launch Date
- 2013
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- yes
- Thematic Focus
- Exposure
- Issue addressed
- Tracking
- Geographic Focus
- US
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- Yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
Use this database to search over 1.8 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations and see financial details such as their executive compensation and revenue and expenses.
- Approach (How?)
- ProPublica source IRS data on tax exempt organisations and have created a database allowing this information to be explored easily
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- ProPublica
- Publisher
- ProPublica (US)
- Partners
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- International
- No ( followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- 409K
- Online Rank
- Google: Alexa: OSE Domain Authority Rank: 84/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 80/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: 7 Alexa: 342,430
- News Source
- Some
- Offline Audience Reached
- National
- Outcome
- Facilitates journalistic research into non-profits http://journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/reporting/investigating-nonprofits-and-charities-where-to-find-internal-data-and-public-records and helps the public to decide to which non-profits to donate http://mashable.com/2015/11/30/giving-tuesday-impact/#eMdXhL8kbPqA
- Last updated
- 22/10/2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Small
- Team Experience
- Research
- Some
- Data Science
- None
- Engineering
- Dedicated
- Design
- Some
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Traditional
- Open Source
- No
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- No
- Risk Planning
- No planning
- Sustainability Planning
- No planning
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api
- Collect / Find Data Sources
- https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/
- Publish / Facilitate Data Reuse
- https://www.propublica.org/about/propublica-data-terms-of-use
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- List
- Ethical Collection
- No guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- Spot Check
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Simple
- Data Description
- Basic
- Data Licensing
- Restricted
- Ethical Publishing
- Cited Sources
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- API