Every filer, one dataset
Two million organizations and every filing year the IRS has published, consolidated and connected. One place to look instead of one lookup at a time.
Follow the money between nonprofits
Looking up one nonprofit is a solved problem. Following money and structure between them is not. Trace Nonprofits answers the questions that span organizations in seconds, not in an afternoon of tab-switching.
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What it does
Follow the money both ways
Grants made and grants received are links you click, not names you retype. Trace a funder two steps out in seconds.
Scope a market in a click
Filter by cause, revenue, state and data quality. Counts, the national map and the table all move together, and the result exports to CSV.
Current without anyone remembering
New IRS and federal audit data is fetched and loaded automatically every month, so the picture is current whenever you open it.
The whole return, on one page
Financial history, balance sheet, leadership and pay, major contractors, related organizations and grant lists. No PDFs to open.
Signals worth checking
What organizations disclosed on their own returns, and what independent auditors found, kept separate and never rolled into a score.
What the back office handles
Every organization page reads the shape of the operation off the return, the related entities, the federal awards, the grants moving in and out, the capital assets, the contractor spend, and sets out which finance and accounting capabilities that back office plausibly has to handle. Consolidation across entities, grant and award lifecycle, allocating shared costs, fixed assets, payables, and more. You walk into the conversation knowing where the work is.
Ranked by what matters first
Twelve capabilities, sorted so the strong signals lead and the open questions sit above the settled ones. The shape of the answer is visible before you open anything.
Every call cites the filing
Each one points at the schedule, the line and the figure it came from. You can check it against the return itself rather than take it on trust, which is the difference between a finding and an assertion.
It says when it cannot tell
Where the return does not answer the question, it says so rather than guessing. A question nobody answered and a question answered no are different things, and reading one as the other is how you lose a meeting.
Practices, not products
Findings are described in accounting terms and name no software, with room against each one to write in whatever your own catalog calls it. When you want systems named, an ERP Comparison module is available upon request and configuration.
Why it exists
ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer, GuideStar and the IRS itself make a single organization easy to look up, and they do it well. What none of them let you do is follow anything. A grant is a name on a page, not a link to the recipient, so every question that crosses an organizational boundary becomes an afternoon.
Going to the sources directly
- One organization per lookup
- Schedule detail buried in PDFs you read by eye
- Grant recipients are dead-end names
- No way to compare across the sector at once
- Hours of cross-referencing per question
Trace Nonprofits
- Every recipient is a link you can follow
- Schedule detail as sortable, filterable data
- Two million organizations, filtered in a click
- National picture and a single return, side by side
- Answers in seconds
Built to be trusted
- Straight about what is missing
- Most registered nonprofits never file a return carrying this detail. Every organization is labelled with what is actually known, so a sparse page reads as "nothing was filed" rather than as "nothing happened".
- Connections only where the filings support them
- A shared name is shown as a lead worth checking, never as an asserted relationship, because an invented connection looks exactly like a discovery.
- Public federal data, cited
- IRS Form 990 filings, the Exempt Organizations Business Master File and Single Audit results. Every figure traces back to a return an organization filed.
See your market in 30 seconds
The demo runs on real nonprofit data with nothing to install.