Quidnunc offers hundreds of millions of records from non-profit 990 tax return filings in tabular form. Search, filter, and download details of financial information, grants and transactions, domestic and foreign activities, associated persons and businesses drawn from over 6 million non-profit tax returns.
Quidnunc provides one of the world’s most powerful financial investigative tools, previously used extensively but privately by dozens of journalists, congressional staff, law enforcement and specialists. Now it’s available to you.
There are almost 2 million non-profit organizations in the USA. Let’s find out what they’re doing.
Quidnunc is a powerful research tool designed for investigative journalists, fundraisers, OSINT specialists, or anyone who wants to uncover the billions of dollars that moves through the 501(c) nonprofit system. Search through 6 million electronically-filed tax returns stored in tabular form, using powerful search filters to search and cross-reference many hundreds of fields.
Along with detailed financial information about each filing organization, navigate easily through 20 million+ grants, 70 million+ associated persons and organizations, and tens of millions of additional rows detailing an organization’s activities at home and abroad.
Quidnunc holds 15 years of electronically-filed 990 tax returns. Only a small proportion of 501(c) organizations filed electronically a decade ago, but now, all nonprofit filings are electronic.
Every time the IRS releases new electronically-filed returns, we update Quidnunc within 5 working days.
Quidnunc tables include hundreds of millions of rows, sorted into collections including:
There are several other organizations that promise insights into the nonprofit world. And while services such as Charity Navigator, Guidestar and CauseIQ are excellent products, they focus on explaining single charities. In other words: these services read a single 990 return for you and then show you limited, particular highlights.
Quidnunc, meanwhile, is a raw research service that aims to show you everything. We hold much more data and offer much more insight.
Quidnunc instead gives users the opportunity to search and filter by any field in the tax return and its appended schedules. We've included hundreds of these fields so you can put together complex queries about many thousands of different nonprofits with just a few clicks.
For example, just taking the question of listed grants from and to a charity: while other organizations claim to provide data on grants, they mostly focus on private foundation grants, which are declared in the IRS form 990PF. Quidnunc, however, includes not just 990PF grants, but also offers: public charity grants from Schedule I, 990EZ grants in Schedule O, foreign grants in Schedule R, supported and 527 organizations donations in Schedule C.
Using our powerful search system, you can combine all that with filters from the rest of the tax return. Need a list of all charities in NYC that claim to be a church while also sending money to certain political activist groups? Easily found in seconds.
Best of all, you can download your findings instantly, 10,000 rows at a time.
We have several other complementary data sources we aim to add to our application soon, relating to large datasets of persons and corporations. Quidnunc is also working on an AI research tool that will assist with financial and open source research, which will be incorporated into the Quidnunc system.
For the moment, we also provide private risk analysis and research services. Need to investigate a group or nonprofits? Or vet a potential client charity? We can help. Please get in touch.
Yes! View and download up to 10,000 rows at a time as a csv file at the click of a button.
Quidnunc provides bespoke investigative and research services. From major newspapers investigating nonprofit malfeasance to small charities looking for new donors, we can help.
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