Research Guides: Company Research: Non-Profits

Non-Profit Statistics Database

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a statistics portal that integrates data on media, business, politics, education, technology and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets on over 80,000 topics from 18,000 sources...more.

Books

The Nonprofit Marketing Guide : high-impact, low-cost ways to build support for your good cause by Kivi Leroux Miller
Publication Date: 2021
Effective Fundraising by F. Warren McFarlan
Publication Date: 2021
The Commercial Charity by Martyn Drake
Publication Date: 2020
Not-For-Profit Financial Reporting by Bruce W. Chase
Publication Date: 2020
Guide to Nonprofit Leadership by Joan Garry
Publication Date: 2020
Nonprofit Management by Michael J. Worth
Publication Date: 2019
Nonprofit Management 101 by Darian Rodriguez Heyman; Laila Brenner
Publication Date: 2019

Funding

SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network) This link opens in a new window
World’s largest searchable database of sponsored funding opportunities from government/public sources, private foundations, and corporations in many disciplines.

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Websites

These websites were selected as resources for nonprofit company & organization information.

Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator has become the nation's largest evaluator of charities that has examined tens of thousands of non-profit financial documents. They've developed an unbiased numbers-based rating system to assess over 9,000 of America's best-known and some lesser known, but worthy, charities.
990 Finder
Database of individual 990 forms of private foundations, public charities, and other nonprofits.
GuideStar
GuideStar is an information service specializing in reporting on U.S. nonprofit companies.
Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy
The center studies the role and impact of nonprofit organizations and philanthropy.
Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance helps donors make informed giving decisions and promotes high standards of conduct among organizations that solicit contributions from the public. It produces reports about national charities, evaluating them against comprehensive Standards for Charity Accountability.
Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Chronicle of Philanthropy is an independent news organization that has been serving leaders, fundraisers, grant makers, and others involved in the philanthropic enterprise for more than 25 years.
National Center for Charitable Statistics
National repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States.
National Council of Nonprofits
Trade association for non-profit organizations.
Nonprofit Explorer from ProPublica (an independent, nonprofit newsroom)
Use this database to view summaries of 3 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations and see financial details such as their executive compensation and revenue and expenses. You can browse IRS data released since 2013 and access more than 14 million tax filing documents going back as far as 2001.

Article Databases

These databases may include articles about specific non-profits, or may include articles on how to create, lead and manage non-profit organizations.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Primarily 1965-present with some earlier. Search over 5,000 business-related journals and magazines along with company profiles, industry reports, market research reports, and more. Includes the Harvard Business Review....more.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
1900-present. Includes ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry and ABI/INFORM Dateline. Indexes and abstracts thousands of journals, trade publications, and regional and local business publications in all areas of business and management, many with an international focus... more.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Formerly LexisNexis Academic, Nexis Uni provides access to full-text of local, national, and international news sources; business, financial, and company information; legal sources for state and federal levels...more.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
1887-present. This multidisciplinary and multi-format database indexes and abstracts over 17,800 magazines and journals including more than 11,500 with some full text. Over 15,000 of the journals are peer-reviewed. Covers subjects found in college and university curriculum...more
SLUth - Search Plus This link opens in a new window
Use SLUth to start your information search - find journal articles across all disciplines, plus newspaper articles, books, ebooks and more! Some major databases such as ABI/INFORM Complete, Biological Abstracts, PsycINFO, and Sociological Abstracts are not included....more.