We are thrilled to share this historic news about open, nonprofit data.
Just three years after the Aspen Institute’s Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation (PSI) published its groundbreaking report, Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, the IRS has released electronically-filed nonprofit tax forms in bulk, as open, machine-readable data to the public. Continue reading “The Aspen Institute: Nonprofit Data Project Updates”
We are excited to announce that over one million electronic IRS 990 filings are available via Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Filings from 2011 to the present are currently available and the IRS will add new 990 filing data each month. Continue reading “Amazon Web Services: IRS 990 Filing Data Now Available as an AWS Public Data Set”
Full report available here.
Although tax exempt non-profit charities that conduct their own telemarketing are not covered by the TSR, the USA PATRIOT Act, passed in 2001, brought charitable solicitations by for-profit telemarketers within the scope of the TSR. As a result, most of the TSR’s provisions now are applicable to “telefunders” — telemarketers who solicit charitable contributions on behalf of non-profit charities. Continue reading “Federal Trade Commission: Complying with the Telemarketing Sales Rule”
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overruled the Commonwealth Court’s opinion in “Redacted v. Redacted” and allowed the state Attorney General to proceed against several charities and their officers using information allegedly disclosed by the charity’s attorney in violation of her obligation to preserve confidentiality. The Supreme Court has said that evidence should be admitted in the case “based on established evidentiary principles and not the broader Code of Professional Conduct.”
Continue reading “Nonprofit Issues: AG May Use Tainted Evidence In ‘Redacted v. Redacted’ Case”
