Sources

Philanthropic.work reads public US nonprofit records.

It is not the IRS, and it is not a law firm.

What a search does

A name looks for matching organizations.

A 9-digit EIN looks up that tax ID.

Financials, people, programs, and award lines load after you open a record.

The site does not offer a general pass-through to outside services.

Freshness

Each figure keeps the date on the public record.

The page also shows when this site fetched it.

Those clocks are different.

If the register cannot be reached, an older copy is not shown in its place.

What is withheld

A missing number stays missing.

It is not shown as zero.

No efficiency ratio, overhead share, or charity score is calculated.

A missing Federal Audit Clearinghouse date is not a clean audit.

Headlines are the first results from a Google News search for the organization's name and place.

Social links are read from the website on the record.

Filing alerts are not available.

Funding notices from Grants.gov, state portals, and community foundations are not displayed.

North Carolina records are commercially restricted.

Maryland notices remain under legal review.

Community-foundation seed listings are restricted.

Award rows are limited to IRS Form 990 grant lines and a short public-domain allowlist: the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, California, and Connecticut.

Publication 78, the Business Master File, and the automatic revocation list are register lookups.

They are not a determination that a gift is deductible.

Credit

Organization records are read from the Fluxx Open Exchange at https://open.fluxx.io, which republishes public filings.

That service is not open source.

Cite IRS organization, financial, and Form 990 award data as: Source: Internal Revenue Service, Tax Exempt Organization Search bulk data and Form 990 series e-file data.

Thematic search looks through organization names, including names filed on a return, and through grant purposes.

The first results also include a short line from a program description when that text is on the record.

A thematic result is not a finding that the organization works on the cause.

People search uses e-filed Form 990 officer lines prepared by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. Data source: NCCS / Urban Institute, efile v3.1, https://nccs.urban.org/.

Privacy

Treat a search as public.

This site has no accounts and sets no tracking cookies.

Saved organizations and the compare list remain in this browser.

Sample data

The page at /snapshot shows one fictional organization, Example Community Foundation, EIN 00-0000000, in Anytown, Example.

The name, place, and dollar figures are invented.

A failed live lookup does not switch to that page.