Variable pages · IRS 990 Master Concordance
SB_01_CONTRIBUTOR_NUM
Contributor number
- Description
- Schedule B Part I, column (a): contributor number
- Table
SB-P01-T01-CONTRIBUTORS(many)- Part
- Part I - Contributors
- Location
SCHED-B-PART-01- Type
- numeric
- Scope
- PZ – 990 and 990-EZ
- Database
- F990, F990PF
- Forms
- SZ
2 / 2
xpaths observed / mapped
2.5M
filings with a value
2009–2024
tax years observed
2 + 6 reviewed
open flags
Checks
Value checks
| Result | Value check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| ⚠ fail | Values parse as numbers | 22.4% of values are numeric |
| ✓ pass | No sudden change in the median between adjacent years | largest change 1.4x (IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInfo/ContributorNumber, 990PF, TY2011) |
| ✓ pass | Pooled xpaths are on the same scale (same return type) | largest ratio of medians between xpaths: 1.0x |
Flags
| Flag | Severity | Xpath | Detail | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
INCIDENCE_BREAK | ▲ warn | (variable) | 990 fill rate changes up to 104.5x year-on-year (in 2017-2018) | open |
INCIDENCE_BREAK | ▲ warn | (variable) | 990EZ fill rate changes up to 90.1x year-on-year (in 2017-2018) | open |
TYPE_NUMERIC | ▲ warn | IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInformationGrp/ContributorNum | numeric variable; 0% of values parse as numbers | ✓ acceptednoteSchedule B contributor amounts and numbers are redacted in the public e-file data (every value is RESTRICTED); numeric is the IRS element type. |
TYPE_NUMERIC | ▲ warn | IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInfo/ContributorNumber | numeric variable; 0% of values parse as numbers | ✓ acceptednoteSchedule B contributor amounts and numbers are redacted in the public e-file data (every value is RESTRICTED); numeric is the IRS element type. |
MANY_NOT_REPEATING | ⓘ info | IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInformationGrp/ContributorNum | many-to-one table, but 100% of values sit in no repeating element | ✓ acceptednoteGenuine repeating group (XSD maxOccurs > 1; repeat_root is the group when a filing has several rows); most filings have one instance. |
MANY_NOT_REPEATING | ⓘ info | IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInfo/ContributorNumber | many-to-one table, but 100% of values sit in no repeating element | ✓ acceptednoteSchedule B contributors are a repeating group in the schema, but public e-file data is redacted to a single ContributorInformationGrp with values RESTRICTED (max 1/filing), so no repeats can be observed. Keep MANY. Evidence: repeats in 0.0% of 310,685 filings, max 1/filing, TY2009-2012; repeat_root: ''=100%. |
MANY_NOT_REPEATING | ⓘ info | IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInformationGrp/ContributorNum | many-to-one table, but 69% of values sit in no repeating element | ✓ acceptednoteGenuine repeating group (XSD maxOccurs > 1; repeat_root is the group when a filing has several rows); most filings have one instance. |
MANY_NOT_REPEATING | ⓘ info | IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInfo/ContributorNumber | many-to-one table, but 70% of values sit in no repeating element | ✓ acceptednoteSchedule B contributors are a repeating group in the schema, but public e-file data is redacted to a single ContributorInformationGrp with values RESTRICTED (max 1/filing), so no repeats can be observed. Keep MANY. Evidence: repeats in 0.0% of 310,685 filings, max 1/filing, TY2009-2012; repeat_root: ''=100%. |
Xpaths
| Xpath (under /Return/ReturnData or /Return/ReturnHeader) | Form | Years | Filings | % filers | Repeats in | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x1 | IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInfo/ContributorNumber | SZ | 2009–2012 | 337,628 | 39.3% | 2.4% |
| x2 | IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInformationGrp/ContributorNum | SZ | 2013–2024 | 2,209,884 | 37.8% | 3.8% |
% filers: percent of in-scope filers whose return has the xpath, in its latest year. Repeats in: share of filings where the element occurs more than once.
Coverage by tax year
| Filings | ’09 | ’10 | ’11 | ’12 | ’13 | ’14 | ’15 | ’16 | ’17 | ’18 | ’19 | ’20 | ’21 | ’22 | ’23 | ’24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x1 | 24k | 82k | 108k | 123k | ||||||||||||
| x2 | 137k | 151k | 163k | 171k | 21k | 122k | 203k | 234k | 259k | 265k | 268k | 216k | ||||
| Fill rate: % of all filings of the return type (largest xpath) | ||||||||||||||||
| 990 | 59 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | <1 | 32 | 50 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 50 |
| 990-EZ | 27 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 26 | <1 | 10 | 26 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 |
| 990-PF | 25 | 26 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 28 | 28 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
Filings with a value, by xpath (rows, numbered as in the xpath table) and tax year. A change of row from one year to the next is usually the IRS renaming the element (most were renamed in 2013). Hover a cell for the exact count.
Values
| Return | Filings | % numeric | % zero | % negative | P25 | Median | P75 | P99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | 1,743,698 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||
| 990-EZ | 506,863 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||
| 990-PF | 296,933 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 | 2 | 5 | 141 |
Percentiles are the median over tax years of each year's percentile.