InfoGuides: Arts Management: Research an Organization

Find Financial Data and Grants Reports

GuideStar Pro This link opens in a new window
Provides financial information on U.S. nonprofits with a searchable database of more than 1.7 million organizations and foundations. Includes organization profiles with revenue and expenses, contact information, 990s, mission statements, and governance information. View a tutorial on this database here.
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Foundation Directory Online This link opens in a new window
Includes a database of over 98,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of over 1.6 million recently awarded grants; and a keyword-searchable database of over 584,000 recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF. Updated weekly. View a tutorial on this database here.
Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
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Database of (up to) 4 years of key financial information on over 400,000 global private companies; integrated screening and searching for public and private companies; full company reports in pdf format; ability to view competitors on both private and public companies.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of news (includes New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times), business (company news, industry forecasts), government (legislative news, tax information), legal (news, case law) and reference information. Formerly LexisNexis Academic. Tutorial for the Nexis Uni database.

Form 990 Finder
Search for nonprofit 990 forms.

Institutional Missions and Priorities - Grey Literature

What is Grey Literature?

"Grey literature" usually refers to policy notes, internal memos, datasets, statements, reports, and filings produced by an agency, institution, or scholarly organization. These materials are not published in the manner of scholarly journals or books, and do not undergo peer review; however, they can be an invaluable source of insight to an organization's policies, priorities, projects, and status.

Institutional websites and funding agency websites, like IMLS, are excellent resources for these kinds of materials, but you may have to dig deeper to find additional filings or sensitive data.

Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Access domestic and foreign public policy research and analytical papers on governmental and legal topics, representing the work of think tanks, research groups, and academic institutes from 1990 to present. Tutorial for Policy File Index database.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more, from 1972 to present. Includes PAIS Archive, covering content published in print 1915-1976. Tutorial for PAIS Index database.