schwanksta

Joined 18 years ago

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Online journalist and code hacker
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Comment · 5 years ago
As others have said, it does not really make sense to search by ZIP code for most consumers. Your chicken could come from anywhere. This is meant to check the processor for a specific package of chicken.
Comment · 6 years ago
There are more complaints than that, but these are all closed complaints for any officer who has had at least one substantiated allegation. It's only a fraction.
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Comment · 7 years ago
Yup! We use it for a bunch of things, and I thought: what if I just dumped all this into it?
Comment · 7 years ago
The IRS puts them on an s3 bucket: https://docs.opendata.aws/irs-990/readme.html

There are 2018 filings in there, but many charities have fiscal years that end in Dec. IIRC, they generally file within 6 months. Given things like human error, bureaucracy and filing extensions... more should start rolling in over time.

Comment · 7 years ago
That's super weird! Comes up when I search other text in their form too. I'm gonna flag this and take a look tomorrow. Thanks!
Comment · 7 years ago
This is neat! I thought about extracting the grants (still might), but full-text seemed like good bang for the buck. Your tools sound like they might be very useful for reporters. Have you given any thought to that? We love mapping these sorts of connections.
Comment · 7 years ago
Those are good suggestions! I'm planing to add sorting by year, but revenue makes sense as well.
Comment · 7 years ago
There are already some 2018 forms in there, but it's based on fiscal year. So a nonprofit whose FY is Dec 2018 would have had to just file last month -- and sometimes they file late or get extensions. And again, this only covers e-filed forms -- they could file on paper, in which case you'd have to use the nonprofit name search and check for a filing.
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