Research by Subject: Business: Find Nonprofit Information

Finding Nonprofits and Filings

A large portion of this content was adapted from a guide created by The Pennsylvania State University (Current as of May 1, 2020).

GuideStar
GuideStar allows you to search for nonprofits by a number of facets and view information about them, including 990s. A free account is required, and some search features require a paid account.
990 Finder
A database of individual 990 forms of private foundations, public charities, and other nonprofits from Candid.
Nonprofit Explorer
A free database from ProPublica that allows you to view summaries of 3 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations and see financial details such as their executive compensation and revenue and expenses.

Statistics, Reports, and Data

The nonprofit almanac: the essential facts and figures for managers, researchers, and volunteers by McKeever, Brice S.
ISBN: 1442275944
Publication Date: 2016
The Nonprofit Almanac, Ninth Edition, completely updated to include the most recent data available, assembles into one compact and well-organized volume an accessible and reader-friendly bible of data on America's extraordinary and rapidly growing civic sector

Nonprofit Works
Data on nonprofit employment, establishments, and wages from the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies
National Center for Charitable Statistics
Designed as a portal for nonprofit practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to download and explore data, this is the home for all NCCS publications.

News & Periodicals

Grant Sources

GrantStation via Chronicle of Philanthropy
GrantStation.com, Inc. offers nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies the ability to identify potential funding sources for programs or projects as well as resources to mentor grant writers through the grantseeking process.

To begin, click on Get Started on GrantStation.com in the blue box on the right
Pivot
Pivot is a powerful tool that combines funding and collaboration opportunities for researchers and graduate students across all disciplines and houses over 25,000 opportunities and 3 million researcher profiles. It contains information on awards, fellowships, and grants from federal/non-federal, corporate/private foundation, and international funding sources. Pivot allows users to create unique funding searches, choose to receive weekly emails based upon those searches, search for collaboration opportunities, share opportunities with colleagues and track relevant opportunities.

You will have to create an account from on-campus before you can login remotely. Click on the sign up link in the upper right-hand corner to create your account. For additional information on how to use Pivot, see the Library's Pivot guide here: http://libguides.sdsu.edu/pivotguide

You must connect to Pivot via theSDSU VPN.

Find eBooks

Even though the physical library is closed there are several books on topics pertaining to funding, managing, and starting nonprofits. Try a search for: nonprofit OR non-profit OR "not-for-profit" OR "not for profit" in the book search on the library's homepage, and check the eBook only box.

You can also use the advanced search features in to refine your searches to topics such as nonprofit governance or taxation. See the links below for advanced search strategy tips and how to log in to OneSearch and/or save searches.

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Finding Nonprofits and Filings

Statistics, Reports, and Data

News & Periodicals

Grant Sources

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