CONTENTS:

• Internet Prospector Charities Databases
• Revised Internet Prospector Secretary of State Page
• NASCOnet U.S. State Charities Offices
• Guidestar
• Idealist.org
• IRS Exempt Organizations
• Gary Price's Direct Search
• National Center for Charitable Statistics
• Pacific Information Resources Search Systems
• BBB Wise Giving Alliance
• CharityUSA.org
• The Grantsmanship Center
• FUNDSNETServices.com

INTERNET PROSPECTOR CHARITIES PAGE

Visit the Internet Prospector for its new Charities Page. Find links for a state's charity database if it has one, or in the case of states that include charities in their corporations or business database, find links to the corporate search page. Go to the Internet Prospector site and give it a try!

http://www.internet-prospector.org/charities.htm

REVISED INTERNET PROSPECT SECRETARY OF STATE PAGE

The Internet Prospector is no longer maintaining its page of Secretary of State links. There are several other sites that are performing this task and doing it very well. See the Internet Prospector site for these links.

http://www.internet-prospector.org/secstate.html

For your convenience, we included additional sites to use for your funder search.

NASCOnet U.S. STATE CHARITIES OFFICES

The National Association of State Charities Officials (NASCO) provides a list of the agencies that oversee charitable solicitations in each of the 50 states on its Web page (NASCOnet). Links and general information are provided.

http://www.nasconet.org/stories/storyReader$8

GUIDESTAR

Guidestar offers foundation information and Form 990s at

http://www.guidestar.org/

and links to charities pages at

http://www.guidestar.org/npo/nplinks/links_statecharities.stm

IDEALIST.ORG

Idealist has a searchable database of nonprofits. Retrieve a list of matching organizations, then click on an organization for a description and link to its home page. The Area of Focus search yielded some interesting results ... definitely outside the box.

http://www.idealist.org/ip/orgSearch?MODULE=ORG

IRS EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS

This is searchable, but is basically just a list of charity names and cities.

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/search/eosearch.html

GARY PRICE'S DIRECT SEARCH

The irreplaceable and irrepressible Gary provides a collection of state charities database links, along with many, many, many other state database links.

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/state.htm

NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHARITABLE STATISTICS (NCCS)

NCCS has links to several government offices dealing with charities.

http://nccs.urban.org/links.htm

PACIFIC INFORMATION RESOURCES SEARCH SYSTEMS

Search Systems provides a very comprehensive set of links to "over 5032 Free Searchable Public Record Databases" by state. Charities databases are one of the many types of databases on their site. A nice touch is that there is a symbol that indicates whether there is a fee to search the database. Thank you to Joan Berg for sending in this URL.

http://www.pac-info.com

BBB WISE GIVING ALLIANCE

Previously reviewed by our esteemed Corporations editor in July, this site is a merger of the National Charities Information Bureau with the Council of Better Business Bureaus' (CBBB) Foundation and its Philanthropic Advisory Service. According to the site, "The Alliance reports on national charities and determines if they meet the 23 voluntary standards on matters such as charity finances, appeals and governance." They basically evaluate how well the listed charities do business in accordance with the CBBB Standards for Charitable Solicitations, much as the local BBB rates commercial businesses. In addition, they list address, phone, Web site and top officer.

http://www.give.org/reports/

CHARITYUSA.ORG

This has a limited listing of charities by state with a brief description and links.

http://www.charityusa.org/pages/Charities/Regional/

THE GRANTSMANSHIP CENTER

The Center provides a community foundation finder at

http://www.tgci.com/resources/foundations/community/list.htm

and links to federal funding information sites, including the Federal Register (see the Federal Register review under Foundation/Grants) at

http://www.tgci.com/resources/federal/ffed.html

Disappointingly, the map on the Funding Through State Government page links only to state home pages, not funding information sites

http://www.tgci.com/STATES/states2.htm

but the International Funding pages actually lists funders.

http://www.tgci.com/intl/index.asp

FUNDSNETSERVICES.COM

FUNDSNET has a list of grantmakers by region with descriptions and links. It's definitely not all-inclusive, since it focuses on charities with Web sites, but is a good starting point and a useful site for local research! There are also lists and links for Australia, Canada, Europe and the United Kingdom, as well as U.S. national funders. Or use the alpha list of foundations. FYI, clicking on the map to access a state link does not work. The FUNDSNET main site provides a number of other helpful tools and resources.

http://www.fundsnetservices.com/regions.htm

http://www.fundsnetservices.com/

Chris Mildner

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