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Info on Nonprofits Now Online at Texas Attorney General's Office

Info on Nonprofits Now Online at Texas Attorney General's Office . Presentation at the National Grants Partnership on June 9, 2009 Linda Lampkin, ERI Economic Research Institute & Denise Francis, Office of the Governor of Texas.

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Info on Nonprofits Now Online at Texas Attorney General's Office

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  1. Info on Nonprofits Now Online at Texas Attorney General's Office Presentation at the National Grants Partnership on June 9, 2009 Linda Lampkin, ERI Economic Research Institute & Denise Francis, Office of the Governor of Texas

  2. TX AG’s Office Gives Online Access to Forms 990 Filed by Nonprofits • Provides Greater Transparency for Texas Givers, Foundations, and Government Agencies • Users can easily review an organization’s finances and uses of their revenues • Consumers now have a tool – the Form 990 filed annually with IRS – to help assess if a group is using donations wisely • Search and access through TX AG web site

  3. TX AG Web Site – Home Page Click to search for Form 990

  4. One Click to the Search Tool

  5. Choose from Search Results

  6. Summary for Selected Charity Select to download Form 990

  7. About ERI Economic Research Institute • Provides geographic- and industry-specific benchmark compensation data • Subscribers include CIA, IRS, NSA, DCAA, UN, US and Canadian militaries, and federal/state/provincial agencies • US Defense Contract Audit Agency and Department of Interior use to assure that bid rates are based on rational pay expectations • PennDOT requires ERI citations to support executive compensation levels in proposals • ERI uses Form 990 data to calculate average salaries, so database includes all comp data from 1998 on, with access to PDFs of the forms • ERI provides the Form 990 library to TX AG – and also CA, NY (with CO and HI soon to follow)

  8. Search by Job, Revenue, State, Type of Nonprofit

  9. Why Provide Form 990 Access? • Makes financial info on nonprofits easily and instantly available to donors, funders, media, community members, regulators, etc. • TX government grantmakers can make better informed decisions about their grantees • Government agencies everywhere (50 states and 80,000 local governments) should access this decision-useful Form 990 data for their actual and prospective nonprofit grantees

  10. Questions? • Linda Lampkin, Research Director • ERI Economic Research Institute • Linda.lampkin@erieri.com • 877-799-3428 • Denise Stines Francis, State Single Point of Contact • Office of the Governor, Division of Budget, Planning & Policy • dfrancis@governor.state.tx.us  • 512-305-9415

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