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How we handle IRS filing data and removal requests.
Philanthropy.org publishes financial and organizational information about U.S. tax-exempt organizations derived from official IRS filings. Those filings are public records required by federal law. This page explains where the information comes from, what we publish and what we don’t, how to correct it, and how we handle requests regarding information appearing in those public records.
Philanthropy.org publishes organization reports built from IRS filings, and profiles of the executives, directors, and trustees those filings name. Individuals appear only in their official capacity — by name, title, and reported compensation — and only because an organization identified them in its required annual filing with the Internal Revenue Service.
We do not create, edit, or rewrite the underlying IRS filing. Organization reports reproduce filing data as submitted. We do not add commentary, ratings, or assessments to them.
Every organization report on Philanthropy.org is built from official exempt-organization data released by the IRS, including Form 990, Form 990-EZ, Form 990-PF, Form 990-N, and the IRS Business Master File. The IRS makes all of it publicly available.
The financial information, program descriptions, and the names and titles of officers, directors, trustees, key employees, and other individuals listed on a report are taken directly from the organization’s IRS filing as submitted. For electronically filed returns, the information is presented from the official IRS data released by the agency.
Where an electronic Form 990-series return is available, we present it alongside the organization’s report as a document, rendered from the public IRS e-file data using the applicable IRS form layout. It contains the fields the IRS requires organizations to report, including the organizational address and telephone number the organization itself provided. We do not add to or remove from what the organization filed. The IRS also makes recent returns and notices available through its Tax Exempt Organization Search at IRS.gov.
Federal law makes Form 990 information publicly available so that donors, researchers, journalists, regulators, grantmakers, and the public can better understand how tax-exempt organizations are governed and how they use their resources. Philanthropy.org exists to make that information easier to find, search, and understand.
Philanthropy.org cannot change what an organization filed with the Internal Revenue Service. The filing is a federal public record held by the IRS, and our report reproduces what the organization submitted.
Because the filing remains a federal public record, removing a report, a name, or a page from this site would not change the filing, would not remove it from the IRS, and would not remove it from the other public sources that publish the same data. For that reason, we do not remove information from a report, or delist a report from search results, on the basis of a preference that public filing information not appear.
We review every written request we receive. Each request is evaluated on its own facts and investigated where appropriate. We will take appropriate action where required by applicable law, a valid court order, or other binding legal process.
Some requests cite the California Consumer Privacy Act or similar state privacy statutes, and many are premised on a home address or personal contact information having been published. Our report pages and individual profiles do not display personal contact information, and organizational addresses are shown as city and state only. The separately presented IRS return contains the address and telephone number the organization itself reported.
Information drawn from public government records — including the names and titles of officers, directors, and trustees reported on a Form 990 — is generally treated differently from consumer information collected by a business, because it is publicly available government-record information.
The publication of information contained in public government records is protected activity. Philanthropy.org publishes IRS filing data as submitted by the filing organization and released by the federal government. We show figures as filed. Where we rank, label, or combine records, we say so on the page where we do it. We do not offer opinions about the character, conduct, or fitness of the individuals named in those filings.
Requests that are not resolved by the information on this page should be directed to us in writing at the address below, identifying the organization name, a link to the report, and the specific information at issue.
If information on a report is incorrect, there are appropriate ways to correct the record.
Each report reflects the IRS filing for the tax year shown. Changes in officers, directors, trustees, addresses, or other organizational information that occur after that filing was submitted will appear only in subsequent IRS filings. Historical IRS filings remain part of the public record.
Questions about our data, requests to report display errors, or other inquiries regarding an organization’s report may be sent to [email protected]. Please include the organization’s name and a link to the report so we can respond as quickly as possible.
Philanthropy.org is not affiliated with the Internal Revenue Service. Form 990 information displayed on this site is derived from official public IRS records and is presented to improve public access to those records.
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