Claim Your Profile
Your public profile. Your voice.
Your IRS Form 990 is public record, published across the web. Philanthropy.org is one of the places it appears, as a page anyone can find. Because it is public data, we cannot remove it, and neither can any single organization.
This is by design, and it protects everyone. A resource that let organizations quietly remove the parts they did not like would be worthless to the donors, researchers, and grantmakers who rely on it precisely because it is complete and even-handed. The value of the platform, to the public and to the entire nonprofit sector, depends on the record being whole. So it is all or nothing: we cannot and do not remove individual figures on request.
The page simply reflects what your organization filed with the IRS. The figures change only when your official IRS filing changes, in the normal course, and the page updates when the IRS record does. Contacting the IRS to take a filing offline will not work either, because public disclosure of Form 990 is a federal requirement, there is nothing to appeal.
What you can do is add your own voice. Claiming your profile gives you a separate page, in your own words, that your IRS page links to, so anyone researching you can reach your mission, your context, and your story in one click.
No. Your IRS 990 page stays exactly as filed and clearly labeled. Claiming does not touch it. Instead, we build you a separate page in your own voice, and your IRS page links to it. The two are entirely distinct pages. Nothing you add alters your IRS filing, and nothing in the filing is hidden or moved when you claim.
You should. Your website is where people go after they have decided to learn more. Philanthropy.org is often where they begin their research, before they get to your site. The two serve different purposes.
You should claim those too. Free profiles on the major nonprofit platforms are worth having, and we would never tell an organization otherwise.
But it is worth being clear about what they are. Free platforms give you a login and a blank form. You supply the writing, the framing, the program descriptions, and the updates, on top of everything else your team is already doing. Two honest questions: is yours finished, and when did you last update it? For most organizations, the answer is that a staff member filled in part of it during a busy month two or three years ago, and nobody has looked at it since.
That is not a criticism of those platforms. It is what happens when the work is left to organizations that are already stretched thin.
We work the other way. We interview you, we write your profile, our editors review it, and we keep it current for you. Independent writers who do this kind of work typically charge $2,000 to $5,000 for a single project. What you are paying for here is not a listing. It is the writing, the editing, and someone else carrying it year after year.
There is one more difference worth knowing. Free platforms give you fields to fill in about your programs and your mission. None of them gives you a place to explain your finances. Your profile here sits one click from your IRS filing, which means it is the only place you can say, in your own words, why your reserves look the way they do, what happened in that unusual year, and what your numbers actually mean. That is the conversation serious donors are having about you whether you join it or not.
We do. Send us your changes any time, to your story, leadership, reports, or giving options, and our team keeps the page current for you.
Your IRS 990 page stays live and keeps appearing in search results, as it does now, with no link to your side of the story and none of your context or voice. Claiming does not put that page online; it is already there. Claiming simply gives it a doorway to the fuller picture, the page only you can provide.
Your claimed content is clearly identified as content provided by your organization, so it stays distinct from the independent IRS data. We verify that you represent the organization before publishing, and our editorial team helps you get the page right, but the context you provide is yours, presented in your voice and marked as such. That distinction is what keeps the whole page trustworthy.
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