IRS Form 990 for Tax Exempt Organizations

IRS Form 990 for Tax Exempt Organizations

The files include the data only for 1982 through 1990, and a complete set of what is available for 1993 and 1994 from the IRS Bulletin Board Service. 1993 and 1994 also include Form 990 and Schedule A.

  • *.fla files have the data.
  • *.xls files have excel spreadsheets that explain the data.
  • overview provides details about sampling.
Here is a sample sas program for reading some items from the 1993 and 1994 files. It is provided by William Gentry (wmg6@columbia.edu), who also provided the 1993-4 data.

The Data Files:

In each directory is a .ZIP file containing all the other files - use that for downloading if you need everything. Please notify feenberg@nber.org of any missing files (except for 1991-2).

The sample forms come from http://nccs.urban.org, the website of the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. Look in the IRS forms section in the database section. This site also has a great deal of additional related data.


Last revised June 7, 2000