What it returns
Search **every US tax-exempt organization** in the official IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, which the IRS updates monthly. Each organization includes: - **EIN, legal name, secondary name, and street address** - **501(c) subsection**, whether **contributions are tax-deductible**, and its public charity or **private foundation** type - **NTEE cause code and category** (health, education, food banks, the arts, religion and more) - **Total assets, income and revenue** from its latest filing, and the tax period they cover - **The ruling date and exemption status**, with a link to the IRS record You can search by name or EIN and filter by state, city, ZIP, cause, 501(c) type, private-foundation status and financial size. Results can be sorted by revenue, assets or name. Use cases: donation and grant verification, fundraising and foundation prospecting, CRM enrichment, nonprofit sales and market sizing.
Request
POST https://api.pushbuild.com/us-nonprofit-lookup/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
name | string | Words in the organization's name, e.g. 'red cross' or 'food bank'. |
eins | list of strings | Employer Identification Numbers to look up, with or without the dash. |
states | list of strings | Two-letter state codes. |
cities | list of strings | City names. |
zipCodes | list of strings | 5-digit ZIP codes. |
nteeCodes | list of strings | Cause categories by NTEE prefix, e.g. E (health), B (education), K31 (food banks), T (grantmaking foundations). |
subsections | list of strings | e.g. 3 for 501(c)(3) charities, 4 for social welfare, 6 for trade associations. |
only501c3 | boolean | Only charitable 501(c)(3) organizations. Default: false. |
privateFoundationsOnly | boolean | Only private foundations (useful for grant prospecting). Default: false. |
minRevenue | integer | Latest reported annual revenue at least this. |
maxRevenue | integer | Latest reported annual revenue at most this. |
minAssets | integer | Latest reported total assets at least this. |
sortBy | string: revenue, assets, name | Result order. Default: "revenue". |
maxItems | integer | Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100. |
Example
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/us-nonprofit-lookup/run \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "food bank", "states": ["CA"], "maxItems": 20}'
Response
{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}
Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.
Pricing
Pay only for results returned: $0.24 per 1,000 organizations. No charge for errors or empty searches.
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