Interesting Nonprofit Scholarship and Useful Datasets

The IRS starting releasing data from 990 electronic filers starting in 2016. Data can be challenging to access, though, because it lives in XML files on an Amazon server.

A name parser has been developed to assist with processing large administrative datasets that often have human names reported in a single unstructured text field.

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A new foundations dataset has been released by Open990.org. It provides:

The Generosity Commission is a non-partisan organization that promotes research on changes in the level of volunteering and charitable giving in the United States.

Campaign Contributions by Non‐profit Executives and Government Grants

Thompson Grants, a division of CBIS, is pleased to announce that it has completed a significant expansion to its grant-finding database, GrantScape, by incorporating awards data from IRS Form 990 financial data sets and USAspending.gov, the repository for all awards data for the federal government, under a unified taxonomy and structure. This process has added over 34 million award records and over 2 million unique recipients, representing $250 billion in private awards funding and $110 trillion in federal awards funding.

A new study highlights the complex relationship between political party and donative behavior:

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As part of an NSF-funded project, the Transnational NGO Initiative interviewed 152 US-based Transnational NGO (TNGO) Executive Directors / CEOs regarding organizational activities, strategies, goals, challenges, effectiveness, accountability, communication, networks, partnerships, and leadership.