Open data ยท 2026-06-13
Public 990 data should be free to search
Understanding the U.S. nonprofit sector is expensive and uneven, yet the underlying IRS Form 990 records are already public. We walk the paid options and their costs (Cause IQ at $5,988/yr, Candid Premium at $1,199/yr, and others) and make the case for a free, deep, plain-English, agent-readable baseline across 790,744 organizations and about 5.8 million filings.