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Cause IQ collects, cleans and analyzes data from a variety of sources, with new sources added frequently. To see a list of all fields available in Cause IQ, check out our filter and field glossary. Current sources of data include:

• Manual research
• IRS Form 990
• IRS Form 990-PF
• IRS Form 990-EZ
• IRS Form 990-N (e-Postcard)
• IRS Form 990 Schedule A
• IRS Form 990 Schedule C
• IRS Form 990 Schedule D
• IRS Form 990 Schedule J
• IRS Form 990 Schedule H
• IRS Form 990 Schedule I
• OMB A-133 Single Audit findings
• OMB A-133 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance programs
• DOL Form 5500
• IRS Business Master File
• IRS extract of tax-exempt organizations
• Metadata from IRS Form 990 XML files
• Department of Education College Scorecard
• U.S. Department of the Treasury (USASpending.gov)
• Organizations’ publicly available information
• California Office of Attorney General
• California Franchise Tax Board
• Secret sauce

In addition to the above data sources, Cause IQ has a variety of proprietary systems to clean, match, aggregate, classify, and categorize information on nonprofits, key personnel, and service providers.

For organizations with little qualitative information on them, Cause IQ also utilizes various LLM models -- artificial intelligence language-generating model developed by OpenAI or Mistral AI -- to synthesize disparate data points to create descriptions of these organization. Cause IQ inputs known data points, qualitative and quantitative, on the organization into the LLMs to generate informative and user-friendly descriptions summarizing the organization. Cause IQ takes full responsibility for the content of these LLM-synthesized descriptions.

If you want to update information on your nonprofit, please submit this form to update information on your organization's profile.

To see a list of all fields available in Cause IQ, check out our filter and field glossary.