{"id":4597,"date":"2016-06-16T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2016-06-16T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T16:06:13","slug":"now-you-can-check-public-charities-tax-filings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=4597","title":{"rendered":"Now You can check Public Charities’ Tax Filings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NewsIRS Makes Electronically Filed Form 990 Data Available in New Format<\/h2>\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that the publicly available data on electronically filed Forms 990 will now be available for the first time in a machine-readable format through Amazon Web Services (AWS).<\/a> The publicly available data does not include donor information or other personally identifiable information. Today\u2019s launch of this effort marks an important step forward in access to this important public data.<\/p>\n

Previously, this Form 990 data was only available in image files. This data, which includes filings from 2011 to the present, will now be available as an XML file that is downloadable from the web via AWS.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe publicly available information on the Form 990 series is vital to those interested in the tax-exempt community,\u201d said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. …\u00a0Data from Form 990-N (e-postcard) used by certain smaller exempt organizations is not available with this data, but it can be accessed through IRS.gov.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now you can check up on what public charities really do. The Internal Revenue Service announced that the publicly available data on electronically filed Forms 990 will now be available for the first time in a machine-readable format through Amazon Web Services (AWS). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[848,859,440,483,850,857,852,847,855,846,849,799,858,853,854,851,856],"class_list":["post-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","tag-848","tag-990-n","tag-access","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-web-service","tag-aws","tag-donor-information","tag-form","tag-form-990","tag-forms-990","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-irs","tag-john-koskinen","tag-launch","tag-public-data","tag-publicly-available","tag-xml"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sKnr-1c9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4598,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}