Monday, July 13, 2009

guidestar database: researching non-profits

Hi,

I found this useful. There's a database called "Guidestar" for researching non-profits:

http://www2.guidestar.org/

From campus I was able to access the "premium version" here:

http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/guidestar.html

For many organizations, it includes IRS Form 990 showing all the revenues, expenses, etc.

For one non-profit I was interested in, I saw that the compensation for the top 6 people was over $1 million--with the President making $350,000--which seemed high to me. (That org has about $31 million in revenue, $9+ million of which goes to payroll.)

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