# /propublica_nonprofit/organizations

`POST /api/propublica_nonprofit/organizations`

Price: 1 credit

Profile of a US tax-exempt organization by EIN: registration and IRS classification details, headline financial figures, and its whole Form 990 filing history with the extracted line items.

## How to use it

Pass an EIN in either form — 941340523 or 94-1340523 both resolve. No separate call is needed for the filing history: `filings` carries one entry per electronically filed return with the extracted IRS line items under `line_items` (raw IRS 990 variable names, and the set differs by form type), while `filings_without_data` lists older returns the source holds only as a scanned PDF. Every `pdf_url` points at ProPublica's own download page, which is behind a bot check and answers 403 to a programmatic fetch — treat it as a link to hand a human, not as a file you can retrieve. On `filings` the source states only the form family, so `form_family` reads 990 for a 990, a 990-R and a 990-O alike, while the exact form name is given only on `filings_without_data`. If you hold a name rather than an EIN, resolve it through propublica_nonprofit/organizations/search first.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `ein` (string, required) — Employer Identification Number of the organization, with or without the hyphen (examples: "941340523", "94-1340523"; minLength: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "PropublicaNonprofitOrganization")
- `ein` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `url` (string, required)
- `sort_name` (string, nullable)
- `care_of_name` (string, nullable)
- `address` (string, nullable)
- `city` (string, nullable)
- `state` (string, nullable)
- `zipcode` (string, nullable)
- `ntee_code` (string, nullable)
- `subsection_code` (integer, nullable)
- `classification_codes` (string, nullable)
- `activity_codes` (string, nullable)
- `affiliation_code` (integer, nullable)
- `foundation_code` (integer, nullable)
- `organization_code` (integer, nullable)
- `deductibility_code` (integer, nullable)
- `exempt_organization_status_code` (integer, nullable)
- `exemption_number` (integer, nullable)
- `filing_requirement_code` (integer, nullable)
- `pf_filing_requirement_code` (integer, nullable)
- `asset_code` (integer, nullable)
- `income_code` (integer, nullable)
- `accounting_period` (integer, nullable)
- `asset_amount` (number, nullable)
- `income_amount` (number, nullable)
- `revenue_amount` (number, nullable)
- `ruling_date` (string, nullable)
- `tax_period_date` (string, nullable)
- `latest_object_id` (string, nullable)
- `irs_data_source` (string, nullable)
- `created_at` (integer, nullable)
- `updated_at` (integer, nullable)
- `filings` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "PropublicaNonprofitFiling")
  - `tax_period` (string, required)
  - `tax_year` (integer, nullable)
  - `form_family` (string, nullable)
  - `form_type_code` (integer, nullable)
  - `pdf_url` (string, nullable)
  - `updated_at` (integer, nullable)
  - `total_revenue` (number, nullable)
  - `total_functional_expenses` (number, nullable)
  - `total_assets_end` (number, nullable)
  - `total_liabilities_end` (number, nullable)
  - `officer_compensation_share` (number, nullable)
  - `line_items` (object) (default: {})
    - `*` (union)
- `filings_without_data` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "PropublicaNonprofitFilingStub")
  - `tax_period` (string, required)
  - `tax_year` (integer, nullable)
  - `form_type` (string, nullable)
  - `form_type_code` (integer, nullable)
  - `pdf_url` (string, nullable)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.

### 412

No organization is registered under that EIN

What to do: Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.

### 429

Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted

What to do: When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.

### 500

Something broke on our side

What to do: Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.

### 529

Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these headers:

- `X-Error` — Error message text (present only on error)
- `X-Request-ID` — Unique request identifier
- `X-Execution-Time` — Execution time in seconds
- `X-Result-Count` — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
- `X-Total-Available-Results` — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
- `X-Warning` — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
- `X-Retry-After` — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.