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NCCS Data Web: GuideStar - NCCS Nonprofit Organizations Database: “Digitized Data”

Parameters

• Key punched independently by GuideStar from images scanned by IRS and purchased by NCCS
• Finances checked and edited by NCCS
• NCCS adds classifications, and other fields for researchers
• All 501(c)(3) public charities filing 990s, EZs
• FY 1998 – 2003
• 400+ variables in multiple files
• Part 3 program & org. descriptions
• Part 5 and Sch. A, Part 1 compensation
• Gov’t grants & full revenue detail
• Full functional expense & balance sheet detail
• “Naughty bits”: Other information and Sch. A

Limitations

• Only public charities
• Approximately 1% of EINs don’t match IRS’s official list – no easy way to merge with or supplement Core Files
• Data quality issues in Part 2 due to poor reporting by charities
• Missing organizations in 1998 due to IRS scanning problems
• Challenge working with large, complex database

Click on the NCCS Data Web heading to access the database
through the Libraries' Databases list.

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