Interesting Nonprofit Scholarship and Useful Datasets

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Complete 990 E-File Index

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.

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Name Parsing at Scale

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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Topic Modeling Reputation


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Free Foundations and Grants Database

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

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List of Useful Databases for Nonprofit Scholarship

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.

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Linking Data on Campaign Contributions and Government Grants

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New Database on Government and Nonprofit 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.

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The Politics of Donations - Are Red Counties More Donative Than Blue Counties?

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

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One Step Closer to Mandatory E-Filing

Dear Friends,

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Transnational NGO Interview Data Available

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.