The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is a clearing house for information about the U.S. economy as it relates to nonprofit organizations. The National Center for Charitable Statistics builds national, state, and regional databases and develops
standards for reporting on the activities of all tax-exempt organizations.
Services
The National Center for Charitable Statistics collects data on charities in the U.S. and shares this data with the public.
The National Center for Charitable Statistics maintains a free online directory of charities, listed by mission and location.
When the Electronic Data Initiative for Nonprofits Coalition was formed in 2002, the National Center for Charitable Statistics advised the group in furtherance of the goal of integrated federal and state electronic reporting and dissemination of data on nonprofit organizations.
GuideStar works with the National Center for Charitable Statistics to get each
Form 990 filed by a
nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public, or so ...
online and readily available to the public.
[White, Suzanne (October 21, 199). "Nonprofit Data All in One Place – And Free, Too". ''Daily Press'' (Newport News, Virginia). p. A12.] The National Center for Charitable Statistics buys scans of each organization's annual Form 990 on
CDs from the
Internal Revenue Service
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, and the scans are then posted online in order to help donors decide to which organizations they wish to give their donations.
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History
The National Center for Charitable Statistics was established on March 15, 1982, as a research division of Independent Sector. Russy Sumariwalla was the first executive director of the National Center for Charitable Statistics. Prior to its establishment, no one knew exactly how many nonprofit organizations existed and how nonprofit organizations were using their donations, and enacting laws and policies related to nonprofit organization was very difficult.
The National Center for Charitable Statistics was transferred to th
Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy
(CNP) at the Urban Institute on July 1, 1996.["Charity Statistics Center Moves". ''PR News''. June 17, 1996.]
The National Center for Charitable Statistics, along with several other nonprofit organizations, was instrumental in creating the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities classification system or NTEE Codes. The National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities classifies organizations into more than 100 different categories based on the mission and program activities of an organization. The Internal Revenue Service
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uses this system to classify newly registered tax-exempt organizations.
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Urban Institute
Charities based in the United States
Statistical organizations in the United States
Organizations established in 1982