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The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is the national repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. Its mission is to develop and disseminate high quality data on nonprofit organizations and their activities for use in research on the relationships between the nonprofit sector, government, the commercial sector, and the broader civil society. The Center was established in 1982 and has been a program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban Institute since July 1996, when it was transferred from the research division of INDEPENDENT SECTOR. Working closely with the IRS and other government agencies, private sector service organizations, and the scholarly community, NCCS builds compatible national, state, and regional databases and develops uniform standards for reporting on the activities of charitable organizations. To help improve the quality of nonprofit sector data, NCCS is working with twelve state charity offices to offer electronic filing of state charity registrations and the IRS Form 990. In 2002, Pennsylvania and Colorado became the first states to accept electronically filed Forms 990 and state registration and renewal forms. Our Desktop990 application (with 2002 IRS forms) is available at http://efile.form990.org for free to charities wishing to file electronically or to complete their state and federal forms through one easy-to-use system. For the latest information about electronic filing of Form 990 for nonprofits, or to e-file a nonprofit organization's annual state registration in participating states click here. View 2001 Profiles of Individual Charitable Contributions by State. Click for text, chart, and appendices A & B.
The new NCCS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are now available. The Unified Chart of Accounts is a system for simplifying the process of translating information from your financial statements to the IRS Form 990 and other standard reporting formats. Click here for your guide.
Version 1 of the NCCS Data Web is due in early fall and will provide users with new ways to interact with NCCS data. The system is being designed to give you the means to view, extract, download, and analyze NCCS data on nonprofit organizations and charitable behavior. Virtually all NCCS files will be made available through this system, although you will need permission to extract data from some of them.
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