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990 Scraper #137

Closed mayawagon closed 6 years ago

mayawagon commented 7 years ago

[ Project Contact ] @mayawagon [ GitHub Repo ] https://github.com/opentechinstitute/990-scraper [ Track ] Decentralization, Open Innovation, Internet Policy & Advocacy [ Community ] [ Location ] Worcester, MA, UTC-05:00

Description

The 990 Scraper is a script for gathering information on nonprofits across the United States based on 990 tax data. This can include total revenues, number of employees, number of volunteers, location, the year it was formed, and more. The Open Technology Institute is using this tool to visualize data on nonprofits that build, use, or engage with technology for social justice, but presumably the tool could be used for any list of nonprofits you want. The script uses the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, and places whatever pieces of information you want into a Google spreadsheet.

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mayawagon commented 7 years ago

form-990-img

drewrwilson commented 7 years ago

👍 🐙 veryyy cool!

mayawagon commented 7 years ago

This is ready for Mozilla Pulse.

omushpapa commented 7 years ago

Interesting

abbycabs commented 7 years ago

Great project @mayawagon! Have you looked at Open Funders Canada?

Pulsed: https://www.mozillapulse.org/entry/341 🎉

mayawagon commented 7 years ago

@acabunoc no, but that looks super relevant! @lesliePhD maybe we can collaborate in some way?

lesliePhD commented 7 years ago

@mayawagon and @acabunoc Thanks for the connections - looks like there is alot of overlap between the work that I do at Powered by Data as well as on this project. Here in Canada, our equivalent is the T3010 and it has been open data via an API since I believe 2009. Our sister company, Ajah uses it to make a commercial funding prospect tool called Fundtracker.

Our project Landscape or Open Funders Canada scrapes data with project descriptions from websites to give extra searchability on fields of interest.

anyways, I would love to chat about what you are doing in the US - as we also have a similar pilot in the US.

feel free to get in touch.

abbycabs commented 6 years ago

Thanks for participating in #mozsprint 2017! We're gearing up for 2018 and closing all the issues from last year. Want to bring your project to #mozsprint 2018? Our Call for Projects is open!

drewrwilson commented 6 years ago

That was fun last year! I'll gladly do it again this year!

abbycabs commented 6 years ago

Updated link for the call for projects!: https://foundation.mozilla.org/opportunity/global-sprint/lead-a-project/