NCCS Core File Processing

Contact Deondre Jones (djones2@urban.org) with questions or comments

Written by Jeff Levy using Python 3.5.3, Pandas 20.1, Numpy 1.11.2 and Requests 2.14.2 from Anaconda

This program will create the final NCCS core files. It requires the following input data:

• IRS form 990 (downloaded automatically from IRS)
• IRS form 990EZ (downloaded automatically from IRS)
• IRS form 990PF (downloaded automatically from IRS)
• IRS form 990N (downloaded automatically from IRS)
• IRS Business Master Files (BMF) (downloaded automatically from IRS)
• National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) (downloaded automatically from SQL)
• FIPS/MSA data (downloaded automatically from SQL)
• Prior NCCS releases (downloaded automatically from SQL)

It produces the following files:

• A log_YYYY.txt file detailing every step the last run went through
• NCCS validation files (when validations steps detect failures)
• NCCS Core CO file (if both 990 EZ and Full are used)
• NCCS Core PC file (if both 990 EZ and Full are used)
• NCCS Core PF file (if the 990PF is used)
• NCCS Core CO_full file (if the 990 Full is used)
• NCCS Core PC_full file (if the 990 Full is used)

For documentation of the build process, see our readthedocs site. For the release data, see the NCCS data archive.