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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The gap

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. Trace one funder's money two steps out and you are opening returns by hand, copying names into a search box, and starting over. 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 manual cross-referencing per question

One stop, already connected

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

What you can do with it

Trace a funder's money

See everything an organization funded, click straight through to each recipient, and keep going. Turn it around to see who funded them.

Map group structures

Subsidiaries, joint ventures and controlled entities, surfaced as connections. The shape of an organization that no single return shows.

Size up the sector

Filter by cause, revenue, state and data quality with live counts, and see where the money and the organizations actually are on a national map.

Read a full history

Revenue, expenses, assets and headcount year over year, with leadership pay and major contractors alongside. One page per organization.

What you get

The whole country, every published year: All fifty states and every filing year the IRS has released, plus the registered organizations that never filed electronically, so the picture is not quietly missing the ones that are hardest to see.
Detail, not just totals: Grants made, leadership and compensation, major contractors, related organizations and interested-person transactions: the parts that usually mean opening a PDF.
Straight about what is missing: Most registered nonprofits never file a return that carries 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".
Findings you can stand behind: Connections are only drawn 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.

See it working

The demo runs against the live data.