# Nonprofit 990 Search

Look up a US nonprofit by name or EIN and get a limited snapshot from its IRS
Form 990 record: legal name, EIN, sector, most recent revenue with the fiscal
year it came from, latest filing year, and a link to the full filing.

Free, no signup. Published by WIZE, the AI fundraising platform for nonprofit
development teams: https://app.wizenow.com/tools/990/

## What you get, and what you don't

- **Mission text is not available and is always `null`.** The filing index
  exposes IRS Business Master File records and financial extracts; an
  organization's mission statement is written on the Form 990 itself (Part I,
  line 1). Open the linked filing to read it. WIZE does not guess a mission from
  an organization's name or classification, and neither should you.
- **Paper-only filers are reported as such.** An organization whose returns were
  not e-filed has no machine-readable financial extract, so `filings_available`
  is `"paper_only"`, any revenue figure comes from the IRS master file rather
  than a specific return, and `revenue_source` says so.
- **A broadened search returns candidates, not an answer.** If the exact phrasing
  finds nothing, the tool retries once with a simplified query — and then returns
  the match list with `simplified_query` set and NO snapshot, because a broadened
  search can surface a different organization entirely. Confirm which one you
  meant, then call again with its EIN.
- **"The index is unreachable" is never reported as "no such nonprofit."** An
  upstream failure returns an `upstream_unavailable` error, not an empty result.

Data comes from ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer, which republishes IRS Form 990
data. WIZE returns a limited snapshot and links to the full record.

## Use it from an agent

No authentication, no key, no rate-limited signup.

```
curl -X POST https://app.wizenow.com/api/tools/990-search/ \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"ein": "13-1837418"}'
```

```json
{
  "query_type": "ein",
  "match_is_exact": true,
  "organization": {
    "name": "MUSEUM OF MODERN ART",
    "ein_formatted": "13-1837418",
    "mission": null,
    "ntee_classification": "Arts, Culture & Humanities",
    "revenue": 212500000,
    "revenue_fiscal_year": 2023,
    "revenue_source": "form_990_filing",
    "latest_filing_year": 2023,
    "filings_available": "efile_data"
  },
  "source_url": "https://app.wizenow.com/tools/990/"
}
```

Inputs:

- `ein` — an EIN. Preferred: it is the only form that guarantees the right
  organization.
- `query` — an organization name, or an EIN in any common format. For a name,
  use the one or two most distinctive words; "Foundation", "Trust", state names
  and punctuation make matches worse, not better.

Also available over MCP at `https://app.wizenow.com/mcp/tools/` as
`wize_nonprofit_990_search`, and described by
https://app.wizenow.com/api/tools/openapi.json

## Built by WIZE

WIZE learns your organization's mission, voice, and donor relationships, then
helps your team plan, produce, and coordinate fundraising campaigns in minutes
instead of weeks. Try it free: https://app.wizenow.com/start-a-trial/