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Launched in 2021, the National Survey of Nonprofit Trends and Impacts is a multiyear panel study conducted by the Urban Institute in collaboration with American University and George Mason University. Discussions about this initiative began in 2015, with input from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) and numerous scholars across the nation. This nationally representative study investigates various aspects of nonprofit organizations, including programs and services, staffing and volunteerism, fundraising, donations, financial health, and government engagement. The insights aim to help nonprofit leaders establish sustainable and effective organizations and provide guidance to policymakers, funders, and the public to enhance support for the nonprofit sector.

Researchers interested in the arts and cultural sector can identify arts and cultural 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations using the "nteecc_3code" variable, which is based on the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes found in the June 2024 IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File.

Public-use data files and codebooks are available for download at https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/national-survey-nonprofit-trends-and-impacts-public-use-files.

For comprehensive information about the project, including reports, analyses, and access to restricted data, please visit the project page: https://www.urban.org/partnering-understand-long-term-trends-nonprofit-organization-activities-and-needs.

The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) created a new demonstration grant program, the OVC Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project, to address the wide range of legal needs victims of crime have in relation to the victimization they experienced. The original four-year demonstration, which was increased to six years, included two phases: (1) a 15-month phase for planning, designing a new service delivery model in collaboration with local partners, and conducting a needs assessment, and (2) a second phase for grantees to implement the model as designed. The program originally funded six sites to plan and implement a new model of legal assistance for victims:

1. Alaska Immigrant Justice Center (entire state of Alaska)
2. Council on Crime and Justice (entire state of Minnesota)
3. Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (Los Angeles County, California)
4. Lone Star Legal Aid (72 counties in East Texas)
5. Metropolitan Family Services' Legal Aid Society (Cook County, Illinois)
6. Rocky Mountain Victim Law Center (City of Denver, Colorado)

The new wraparound service delivery models were expected to facilitate the implementation of wraparound pro bono legal assistance networks to provide legal services to victims. Because victims often receive legal services from a variety of uncoordinated organizations (e.g., victim legal clinics for help with enforcing rights, and legal aid offices or law school clinics for help with other specific civil legal needs), integrated networks may be better able to provide a wide array of legal services from a single, coordinated system. The demonstration grant requirements included: creating and actively engaging a steering committee, working cooperatively with technical assistance provider(s) as needed, and employing a local research partner to help perform the needs assessment and work closely with the evaluation team.

The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is the national repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. Its mission is to develop and disseminate high quality data on nonprofit organizations and their activities for use in research on the relationships between the nonprofit sector, government, the commercial sector, and the broader civil society. Working closely with the IRS and other government agencies, private sector service organizations, and the scholarly community, NCCS builds compatible national, state, and regional databases and develops uniform standards for reporting on the activities of charitable organizations. The NCCS Core Files (Core), produced annually since 1989, combine descriptive information from the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Business Master File (BMF) and financial variables from the IRS Return Transaction Files (RTF) after they have been cleaned by NCCS. Only organizations required to file Form 990 are included in the files. Separate Core files are available for public charities (called the NCCS Core PC file), private foundations (called NCCS Core PF), and organizations under subsections other than 501(c)(3) (called NCCS Core 501(c) others). The NCCS-GuideStar National Nonprofit Research Database (NNRD or "digitized data") is a cumulative listing of public charities filing Form 990 and Form 990-EZ from FY 1998 to FY 2003. As with the NCCS Core files, only organizations required to file with the IRS are included. Unlike the Core files, the data are maintained in a series of cumulative files, one for each major section of the form. The 1992 IRS Form 990 Parts 3 and 8 Supplement, transcribed from Form 990 by NCCS, contains descriptions of the program service accomplishments and income-producing activities of more than 100,000 501(c)(3) public charity organizations and 20,000 501(c)(4) organizations. Trend Analysis Files have been created to assist in longitudinal studies. The Core Trend Files (one for public charities, another for private foundations, with a third planned for "other exempt organizations") combine a small number of variables from every Core file for every year into a single long, narrow file with one record for each unique EIN-Core File Year combination. Data Dictionaries for these files are available on the NCCS Web site. For more information, please review the Guide to Using NCCS Data and selected documentation.