FACTANKER Pro · nonprofits & foundations
Nonprofit Financial Benchmarks (IRS 990)
Form 990 financials for every e-filing nonprofit — revenue, expenses, program service revenue, officer compensation — one fact per filed line, each linked to the IRS filing. Peer percentiles with Pro (in preparation).
What it is
Form 990 financials for every e-filing nonprofit — revenue, expenses, program service revenue, officer compensation — one fact per filed line, each linked to the IRS filing. Peer percentiles with Pro (in preparation).
Sources: IRS Form 990 / 990-EZ / 990-PF e-file XML · IRS Exempt Organizations BMF · GLEIF
Update cadence: Monthly with IRS e-file releases; full history per EIN; every value links to the filing it came from.
What is in it today
31,487,305 facts from IRS e-filed Forms 990, covering 2000-12-31 to 2026-10-31: total revenue, total expenses, program service revenue, officer compensation and more, one fact per filing and line, each linked to the IRS XML it was read from. Source record →
Example: the American National Red Cross (EIN 53-0196605) — entity record with all filed years →
What Pro adds: peer percentiles (10/25/50/75/90) for program-expense share, officer compensation relative to expenses, revenue growth and months of reserves — by size band and NTEE activity class, recomputed with every IRS release; bulk CSV of all filers; a feed of newly filed 990s.
Who uses it
grant writers and development teams, foundations doing due diligence, boards and auditors, journalists, donors comparing charities.
Grant prospecting
Filter foundations by assets, grants paid and growth; see which program classes they actually fund.
Board and audit review
Compare your program-expense share, reserves and compensation ratios with peers of the same size and activity class.
Donor due diligence
Read a charity's financial history as filed, not as summarised by a rating site.
Journalism and research
Sector-wide trends from every e-filed 990, recomputed with each IRS release.
Why this exists as a paid product
Instrumentl ($299–999/month), Cause IQ and Candid sell 990-based prospecting and benchmarks; ProPublica's free Nonprofit Explorer shows filings but computes no peer ratios. Every FACTANKER figure stays free to read and to query one at a time; Pro is for the people who need all of it, fast, with a feed and someone to e-mail.
Pricing
Introductory prices. Payment is not live yet — write to us and we set you up by hand; billing starts when the payment page does.
| Plan | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Everything public: pages, REST API, MCP server, Markdown views, evidence links. Rate-limited, no key, no signup — this does not change. | $0 |
| Pro — one product | API key without the public rate limit, bulk CSV/JSONL export of the product's tables, change feed (Atom) or webhook (in preparation), e-mail support within one working day. | $49/month or $490/year |
| Pro — all five | The same for every Pro product, one key. | $149/month or $1490/year |
| Enterprise / data licence | Full feed or dump, SLA, redistribution rights under the EU database right (Enerlio GmbH), custom serialisation, invoice billing. | on request |
The underlying official data is public domain and stays free; what Pro sells is the normalised, resolved, evidence-linked compilation, its history and its delivery. Prices are net, excluding VAT; business customers only; invoices in USD or EUR; contract terms on request. Terms of use: /nutzung.
Questions
Which filers are covered?
Every organisation that e-files Form 990, 990-EZ or 990-PF and appears in the IRS releases; paper filers are not in the IRS XML and therefore not here.
Are the ratios your opinion?
No. They are arithmetic on filed lines, and the page shows the lines. Where the IRS form itself is ambiguous, the methodology note says so.
Can I get the whole table?
Yes — bulk CSV is what the Pro tier is for.
FACTANKER Pro is a commercial offer of Enerlio GmbH. Everything public on this site stays free and keyless.