Research Guides: Arts Management: Doing Foundation/Grant/Non-profit Research

Finding Data/Statistics/Financials on Non-Profit Organizations

990 Finder
Searchable database of IRS Form 990s going back to 2002.
How to Read an IRS Form 990
A guide to the different parts of the 990 and what they mean created by the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York.
National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture
Data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States
GuideStar
Directory of more than 1.8 million IRS-recognized non-profit organizations
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Million Dollar List
Searchable and browsable free record of publicly reported charitable gifts of $1 million or more since 2000.
NCCS - National Center for Charitable Statistics
Data on the nonprofit sector in the United States
National Endowment for the Arts Reports

Foundation Directory Online is a searchable database of information on over 100,000 grantmakers across the US.