🏛️ Charity Navigator Nonprofit Ratings Scraper

Pull structured records from Charity Navigator Nonprofit Ratings — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/charitynavigator-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/charitynavigator-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: searchQuery (string, default "Red Cross"), maxItems (integer, default 10), cause (string), size (string), state (string), minRating (integer, default 0). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~charitynavigator-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

🚀 Collect nonprofit charity ratings and financial data from the world's largest charity evaluator. Get organization names, EIN numbers, star ratings, scores, causes, revenue, assets, and donation eligibility for 200,000+ charities. Search by keyword, cause, size, state, and rating.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Researching nonprofits for donations, grants, or partnerships requires structured financial and quality data. Charity Navigator rates over 200,000 nonprofits, but extracting this data manually is slow and does not scale when you need to evaluate hundreds of organizations.

The Charity Navigator Nonprofit Ratings Scraper automates this process, pulling structured charity data with flexible filtering by keyword, cause, size, state, and rating. Whether you are a donor researching charities, a foundation evaluating grantees, or a researcher analyzing the nonprofit sector, this tool delivers clean data in seconds.

Target Audience	Donors, foundations, CSR teams, nonprofit researchers, journalists
Primary Use Cases	Charity research, grantee evaluation, nonprofit benchmarking, sector analysis

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📋 What Does It Do

This tool collects nonprofit data from Charity Navigator, returning structured records with ratings, financials, and organizational details. It delivers:

• ⭐ Charity ratings - star ratings (1-4) and overall scores for thousands of nonprofits
• 💰 Financial data - revenue, assets, expenses, and program spending from IRS filings
• 🏷️ Cause categories - health, education, environment, human services, and 20+ categories
• 📍 Location data - city, state, and full address information
• 📋 IRS details - EIN numbers, NTEE codes, tax status, and filing information
• 👥 Leadership info - staff details, board composition, and governance policies

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🎬 How to Use the Charity Navigator Scraper - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon. Follow the step-by-step instructions below to get started in under 2 minutes.

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⚙️ Input

Configure your search with keywords, cause, size, state, and rating filters.

Field	Type	Description
Search Query	String	Search by name or keyword (e.g. "Red Cross", "cancer")
Max Items	Integer	Free users: Limited to 10 items. Paid users: up to 1,000,000
Cause	Select	Filter by cause (Health, Education, Environment, etc.)
Organization Size	Select	Small (under $1M), Medium ($1M-$10M), Large ($10M-$50M), Super ($50M+)
State	String	US state code (e.g. "CA", "NY")
Minimum Star Rating	Integer	Only include charities rated this star level or higher
Include Full Details	Boolean	Fetch financial data, IRS info, and leadership details

Example 1 - Top-rated health charities:

{
    "searchQuery": "cancer",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "cause": "Health",
    "minRating": 3,
    "includeDetails": true
}

Example 2 - Large education nonprofits:

{
    "cause": "Education",
    "size": "LARGE",
    "maxItems": 100
}

⚠️ Free users are limited to 10 items per run. Sign up for a paid plan to unlock up to 1,000,000 records.

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📊 Output

🧾 Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Charity Navigator profile page
name	string	Organization name
ein	string	IRS Employer Identification Number
rating	number	Overall score (0-100%)
starRating	integer	Star rating (1-4)
causes	array	Cause categories
size	string	Revenue size (Small/Medium/Large/Super)
city	string	City
state	string	State
subsection	string	Tax status (e.g. 501(c)(03))
totalRevenue	number	Annual total revenue
totalAssets	number	Total assets
programExpenses	number	Program service expenses
totalEmployees	integer	Number of employees
mission	string	Organization mission statement
website	string	Official website
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp of data collection

📦 Sample Output

Sample 1 - Major charity:

{
    "url": "https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/530196605",
    "name": "American Red Cross",
    "ein": "530196605",
    "city": "Washington",
    "state": "DC",
    "rating": 99,
    "starRating": 4,
    "causes": ["International development", "Disasters and emergency management"],
    "size": "SUPER",
    "subsection": "501(c)(03)",
    "totalRevenue": 3804377344,
    "totalAssets": 4565143729,
    "programExpenses": 3219189859,
    "totalEmployees": 18957,
    "mission": "Since its founding in 1881 by Clara Barton...",
    "website": "http://www.redcross.org",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 2 - Education nonprofit:

{
    "url": "https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/131624016",
    "name": "Teach For America",
    "ein": "131624016",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "NY",
    "rating": 92,
    "starRating": 4,
    "causes": ["Education"],
    "size": "SUPER",
    "subsection": "501(c)(03)",
    "totalRevenue": 350000000,
    "totalAssets": 450000000,
    "programExpenses": 280000000,
    "totalEmployees": 2500,
    "website": "http://www.teachforamerica.org",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 3 - Environmental charity:

{
    "url": "https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/237923164",
    "name": "The Nature Conservancy",
    "ein": "237923164",
    "city": "Arlington",
    "state": "VA",
    "rating": 95,
    "starRating": 4,
    "causes": ["Environment"],
    "size": "SUPER",
    "subsection": "501(c)(03)",
    "totalRevenue": 1200000000,
    "totalAssets": 8900000000,
    "programExpenses": 900000000,
    "totalEmployees": 4800,
    "website": "http://www.nature.org",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why Choose the Charity Navigator Nonprofit Ratings Scraper?

Advantage	Details
⭐ 200,000+ charities	The world's largest charity evaluation database
💰 Financial data	Revenue, assets, expenses from IRS filings
🏷️ 20+ cause categories	Health, education, environment, and many more
📍 State filtering	Target charities in any US state
📊 Size filtering	Small, medium, large, or super organizations
📋 IRS details	EIN numbers, NTEE codes, and tax status
⏰ Scheduled monitoring	Track rating changes automatically

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📈 How Does It Compare?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual Browsing
Batch collection	Up to 1M charities	One at a time
Multiple filters	Cause, size, state, rating	Limited search
Financial data	Revenue, assets, expenses	Click each profile
Structured output	JSON, CSV, Excel	Web pages only
Automated scheduling	Weekly/monthly	Manual visits
IRS data	NTEE codes, tax status	Scattered

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🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Tool - Search for "Charity Navigator Nonprofit Ratings Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Enter your search query and configure filters
4. Run It - Click "Start" and get structured charity data in seconds
5. Download Data - Export results as CSV, Excel, or JSON from the Dataset tab

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💼 Business Use Cases

Donors:

• Research and compare charities before donating
• Find the most effective organizations in your cause area

Foundations:

• Evaluate potential grantees using financial efficiency metrics
• Benchmark charity performance across peer organizations

CSR Teams:

• Identify high-performing charities for corporate giving programs
• Build partnership lists by cause and geography

Researchers and Journalists:

• Analyze nonprofit sector trends and funding patterns
• Investigate nonprofit finances and organizational health

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Charity Navigator Nonprofit Ratings Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Charity Navigator Nonprofit Ratings Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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• 💬 ChatGPT
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating Your Charity Data Collection

Schedule monthly runs to monitor rating changes and new charity evaluations. Use the Apify scheduler and push results to your CRM, spreadsheets, or analytics tools.

🔌 Integrate Charity Navigator Scraper with Any App

Connect your charity data to thousands of apps using these integrations:

• Make - Automate charity research workflows
• Zapier - Get alerts on rating changes
• Slack - Share charity findings with your team
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets
• Airbyte - Sync to your data warehouse
• Webhooks - Trigger actions when runs complete

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Charity Navigator Nonprofit Ratings Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
• Contact us at Tally contact form

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Charity Navigator or any nonprofit organization. It accesses only publicly available data from the Charity Navigator website.