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opentechinstitute / 990-scraper

Grab nonprofit tax information from the ProPublica API and put it in a Google spreadsheet!
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Get EIN numbers for every organization in list, and prune out things that aren't organizations #4

Open mayawagon opened 7 years ago

mayawagon commented 7 years ago

Some of the things in the list are projects, companies, or just defunct. Because of this, they won't all have submitted 990s to the IRS, and their data will not be in the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API. That's okay. Just find a way to programmatically find that out.

0xStarcat commented 7 years ago

Hiya, going off the list here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jwM-cYI1Ep9ZjNxGDjJXjqNkYA-f1ViyAH-Bv1tLvV4/edit#gid=0

Would any entry with the label "organization" and "cooperative" be what we're looking for? Thereby excluding "app", "game", "project", "government agency", "school", and "company"?

mayawagon commented 7 years ago

Hi @0xStarcat, "Project" is the default one, so ones marked project have not been looked at and categorized manually yet (or, they really are just a project). So we'd probably want to look through "organization" and "project" (and maybe "school"?) for things that might be nonprofit organizations.

mayawagon commented 7 years ago

Things marked "organization" are almost certainly nonprofit organizations, but there's still the difficulty of organizations that are not legally nonprofits. For example, the Open Technology Institute is a program of the New America Foundation, so it would not show up in tax data.