Nonprofit Data Explorer

Search nonprofits, follow the money, and move fast.

IRS 990 data, funder trails, and watchboards for people following the money. Free for individuals, journalists, and nonprofits. Paid tiers for organizations and platforms at scale.

Open Search Example Find Funders Open Foundation Example
IRS-first Organization records, funder surfaces, and board evidence start from public source material.
Watchboards Public research objects with citations, excerpts, and branches for the next investigative step.
Free to explore Individuals, journalists, and nonprofits use the explorer free. Paid tiers cover data and API usage at scale.

What You Can Do

Search 990-backed organizations, open record pages, browse funders, and inspect watchboards built from source-backed outputs.

SearchOrganizations

Name and EIN lookup

Search by nonprofit name or EIN, filter by state, category, and subsection, and open the matching organization record.

FundersFoundations

Browse funders by place and scale

Start from a state-level funder slice, then narrow by name, sector, and asset size to find likely grantmakers.

WatchboardsEvidence

Inspect source-backed boards

Open watchboards that expose evidence excerpts, source locations, entities, and branches for further inspection.

Try It

Hunger Free AmericaOpen a real organization page from the shipped data.
Jewish Communal FundOpen a large funder record and inspect its assets and classification.
New York fundersStart with a usable funder slice instead of an empty or overloaded index.

Watchboards

Watchboards are the public research object: source-backed trails with citations, evidence excerpts, and branches for further work.

Open watchboards

Who It Is For

Journalists, researchers, watchdogs, nonprofits, and teams that need financial transparency data and practical tools to make sense of it.

AudiencePublic-Interest Work

For people following the money

Use it to inspect organizations, shortlist funders, trace grant relationships, and move from a name or EIN to a usable record quickly.

Use ModelFree + Paid

Free for individuals. Paid at scale.

Individuals, journalists, and nonprofits use the explorer for free. Organizations and platforms use the broader data and API layer at paid tiers.