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IRS 990 Nonprofit Officers and Compensation

Named officers, directors and key employees with pay, hours and titles from IRS e-filed 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF returns.

IRS 990 Nonprofit Officers and Compensation reads the official IRS e-filed returns (Form 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF) of US tax-exempt organizations and returns one row per person: the officers, directors, trustees, key employees and highest-paid employees the return lists, with title, weekly hours, role flags and the pay the organization reports for them. Form 990-PF and Form 990-EZ also give the five highest-paid employees and contractors, which is where the large salaries of private foundations such as the Gates Foundation sit. Look up organizations by EIN or by name, filter by role or minimum pay, and export the result as JSON, CSV or Excel, call it through the Apify API, or plug it into n8n, Make and AI agents through MCP.

The data comes straight from the IRS TEOS e-file archives, not from a third-party search API, so a return is available as soon as the IRS publishes it. When an organization filed an amended return for a period, the latest one is used.

Why use IRS 990 Nonprofit Officers and Compensation?

• Fundraising and prospect research – find who leads an organization, how they are paid and how big the organization is (revenue and expenses are on every row).
• Journalism and watchdog work – compare executive pay across organizations, or across the last few tax years (2022 and later) with the tax-year option, and trace every figure to the filing it came from.
• Compliance and due diligence – list the people behind a nonprofit or private foundation, including related-organization pay and independent contractors.
• Executive search and compensation benchmarking – filter to officers or key employees above a pay threshold.

Output fields

Each row describes one person on one return: organization identity (ein, organizationName, city, state, website, revenue and expenses), the return (formType, taxYear, taxPeriodEnd, filedAt, amendedReturn, filingObjectId), the person (personName, title, role, role flags, averageHoursPerWeek) and pay (compensationUsd, relatedOrgCompensationUsd, otherCompensationUsd, totalCompensationUsd). Form 990 filers that complete Schedule J also get baseSalaryUsd, bonusUsd, deferredCompensationUsd and nontaxableBenefitsUsd; these are the amounts paid by the filing organization itself, while pay from related organizations is in relatedOrgCompensationUsd. Independent contractors carry servicesDescription. Fields the form does not report are null, never an empty string.

Form 990-EZ and the officer list of Form 990-PF do not classify roles, so those rows have role set to officer-director-or-key-employee and the role flags are null. The five highest-paid employees listed on Form 990-PF and Form 990-EZ (those paid over 100,000 USD) have role highest-compensated-employee and isHighestCompensated true. Small organizations filing Form 990-EZ usually enter "None" there, so most 990-EZ returns give only officers, directors and key employees. The status message at the end of a run shows how many filings were read and how many rows carry a pay amount.

Is it legal to scrape this data?

The IRS publishes these returns as public records. The Actor reads only public information and does not log in or bypass access controls. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws (including data protection rules) and the source's terms. If you find an issue, open it in the Issues tab; problems are answered within one business day.

Output fields

Every result is one flat record, so it drops straight into a spreadsheet, a database or a CRM.

Sample record

{
  "query": "53-0196605",
  "found": true,
  "ein": "530196605",
  "organizationName": "AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES",
  "organizationCity": "WASHINGTON",
  "organizationState": "DC",
  "formType": "990",
  "taxYear": 2024,
  "taxPeriodEnd": "2024-06-30",
  "filedAt": "2025-04-28T14:55:29-05:00",
  "amendedReturn": false,
  "personName": "GAIL MCGOVERN",
  "title": "PRESIDENT & CEO",
  "role": "officer",
  "isOfficer": true,
  "isDirectorOrTrustee": true,
  "isKeyEmployee": false,
  "isHighestCompensated": false,
  "isFormer": false,
  "averageHoursPerWeek": 60,
  "compensationUsd": 1296862,
  "relatedOrgCompensationUsd": 0,
  "otherCompensationUsd": 16743,
  "totalCompensationUsd": 1313605,
  "baseSalaryUsd": 685738,
  "bonusUsd": 600000,
  "deferredCompensationUsd": 14850,
  "nontaxableBenefitsUsd": 1893,
  "servicesDescription": "Consulting",
  "organizationTotalRevenueUsd": 3804377344,
  "organizationTotalExpensesUsd": 3530489124,
  "organizationWebsite": "WWW.REDCROSS.ORG",
  "filingObjectId": "202511189349301681",
  "sourceUrl": "https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/530196605/202511189349301681/full",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T08:00:00.000Z"
}

Input

Call it from your code

Run the Actor and get the results in one request. Replace YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN with the token from your Apify account settings.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/datagrit~irs-990-officer-compensation/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"organizations":["53-0196605"],"maxItems":50}'

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('datagrit/irs-990-officer-compensation').call({
  "organizations": [
    "53-0196605"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items.length, items[0]);

from apify_client import ApifyClient
import os

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("datagrit/irs-990-officer-compensation").call(run_input={
  "organizations": [
    "53-0196605"
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
})
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(len(items), items[0] if items else None)

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