Zovo Charity Lookup

Look up a US nonprofit's IRS filings, multi-year financials and computed ratios.

Search US nonprofits by name and get the IRS exemption facts, a multi-year table of revenue, expenses, net assets and officer pay from Form 990 filings, computed ratios with their formulas, links to the filing PDFs, and a PDF, CSV and Excel due-diligence report. Data comes live from ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

What it does

Nonprofit search by name, state and category
Multi-year Form 990 financials with year-over-year change
Ratios with formulas: surplus margin, contributions share, officer pay share, months of expenses in net assets
Side-by-side comparison of 2 to 5 nonprofits
PDF one-pager with trend chart, CSV and Excel downloads

Try asking

“Look up the American Red Cross, EIN 53-0196605: revenue, expenses and officer pay over the last years”

“Compare EINs 53-0196605 and 13-1623829 on revenue, expenses and net assets”

Limitations

Covers US tax-exempt organizations in ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
Financial figures come from the IRS extract of e-filed and processed Form 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF returns; the newest return can take a year or more to appear.
The extract has no program-service expense split, so a program expense ratio is not computed.
Shows facts and computed ratios only; it does not rate organizations.
Revocations and current exemption status should be checked in IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search.
Successful source answers may be cached for up to 24 hours (searches 6 hours).

Add it

ChatGPT: once Zovo Charity Lookup is approved, add it from the ChatGPT plugin directory.

Claude: go to Customize > Connectors > Add custom connector and enter https://charity-check.zovo.one/mcp. No sign-in is needed. Once Zovo Charity Lookup is listed in the Claude connector directory, you can add it from there too.

Other MCP clients can connect to the same endpoint: https://charity-check.zovo.one/mcp

Source: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, IRS Form 990 data.