Nonprofit Data Explorer

Open nonprofit records, grant trails, and evidence-backed watchboards.

PublicMetadata is the free open data layer for people following nonprofit money: IRS 990s, funders, grant relationships, and source-backed boards.

Open Search Example Open Grant Trails Find Funders Open Foundation Example
IRS-first Organization records, grant trails, and board evidence start from public source material.
Watchboards Evidence-first research objects with citations, excerpts, linked entities, and next-step branches.
Free to explore Individuals, journalists, and nonprofits use the explorer free. Paid access is for heavier data and API usage.

What You Can Do

Search organizations, inspect grant relationships, browse funders, and open watchboards built from source-backed engine outputs.

SearchOrganizations

Name and EIN lookup

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

Grant TrailsMoney Flow

Inspect source-backed grant relationships

See funder-to-recipient trails, exact amounts, recipient resolution status, and filing excerpts without leaving the public surface.

WatchboardsEvidence

Inspect source-backed boards

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

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.

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.
Grant trailsOpen source-backed funder-to-recipient relationships with excerpts and resolution status.
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 claims, citations, excerpts, and branches for further work.

Open watchboards

Engine Snapshot

A direct snapshot of the current engine bundle behind this public surface.

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.