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Those are good suggestions! I'm planing to add sorting by year, but revenue makes sense as well.

There are already some 2018 forms in there, but it's based on fiscal year. So a nonprofit whose FY is Dec 2018 would have had to just file last month -- and sometimes they file late or get extensions. And again, this only covers e-filed forms -- they could file on paper, in which case you'd have to use the nonprofit name search and check for a filing.

That's super weird! Comes up when I search other text in their form too. I'm gonna flag this and take a look tomorrow. Thanks!

Yup! We use it for a bunch of things, and I thought: what if I just dumped all this into it?

The IRS puts them on an s3 bucket: https://docs.opendata.aws/irs-990/readme.html

There are 2018 filings in there, but many charities have fiscal years that end in Dec. IIRC, they generally file within 6 months. Given things like human error, bureaucracy and filing extensions... more should start rolling in over time.

Well sponsorships are part of conf. revenue in a lot of cases.

I've looked at the sponsor packs for the CNCF conferences, and those higher tiers do not come cheap.

Also don't underestimate smaller individual payments * very large number.

E.g. Kubecon Barcelona, tickets were $900+ each and there were 7700 people, so we're talking almost $7m from ticket sales alone.

Now the venue ain't cheap but that + all the sponsor cash == a fair profit, I'd expect.

Our member lists are public and the price of membership at every level is public.

ETA:

look here on page 9:

https://pp-990-rendered.s3.amazonaws.com/201823199349304962_...

it breaks down the income into broad buckets

Yep, wrong about that. 63M revenue for conferences, 12M for sponsorships and 5M for training.

Though I bet a lot of that 63M is conference sponsorships.

Source: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...

yes unfortunately all that these forms tell us is, more money is coming in and more money is being spent, not really what it's being spent on (and I'd imagine the 2018 numbers will show another big jump in revenue if the growth of CNCF projects has anything to do with it)

From having had a look round the Linux Foundation site, I couldn't easily see a lot of information about what they spend their increasing revenues on, although I may well have missed it...

Yep basically - looking at the network of grants (who funds who), people (who works where over their careers), social media and news (who’s referenced or cited alongside whom) and so on. You start to see interesting clusters of nonprofits that are funded by the same groups and work together extensively.

Interesting thanks!

Hey, first up really amazing work you’re doing, hugely inspiring for us! Thank you.

Whilst our focus has been delivering a consumer layer on top of all this data, yea, very open to exposing our underlying graph to others. Want to drop me a note at dan at alma.app?

As you mention elsewhere, half the battle is cleaning the data and getting quality.

Yup. We’ve been using this data for a while to render e-filed 990s on our site and to extract highly paid employees. Now we just strip the markup out and toss it all into elasticsearch for search. It’s really interesting to surface things like grants.

I will say for personal analysis that the schema has a habit of changing, and things like grants can appear in multiple places depending on the context. What’s more, just 2/3rds of nonprofits e-file now (and I’m sure fewer and fewer the further back you go) Just some things to look out for.

If you’re interested in processing the 990 XML data though, check out the truly excellent irsx: https://github.com/jsfenfen/990-xml-reader

Its not $3 million, its 3 million tax records from non-profits, digitally filed by those non profits, from 2011 until now.

"The new feature contains every electronically filed Form 990, 990-PF and 990-EZ released by the IRS from 2011 to date. That’s nearly 3 million filings. The search does not include forms filed on paper."

The community appreciates the change! Thanks for listening!