Data about people

Last updated 7 October 2026.

If you found your name here, this page is for you: what we publish, why, where it came from, and what you can do if it is wrong.

What we publish

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees an organization listed in Part VII of a Form 990, or in Part IV of a Form 990-EZ, it filed electronically with the IRS. On these pages we show each person's name and title exactly as the organization wrote them. We publish no address for a person: the only address on the return is the organization's own, which we keep with the return it came from.

We also publish the compensation the organization reported for each person in that same Part VII: pay from the organization, pay from related organizations, other compensation, and average hours per week, as the organization wrote them. Beside them we show a total, which is our own sum of the three dollar figures and is labelled that way — the form has no total of its own. A figure belongs to one organization and one year, the return it came from.

On a Form 990-EZ the questions are different, and we publish the EZ's own answers as filed: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week, with a total that is again our own sum and labelled that way.

When an organization also filed Schedule J — required for anyone it reports paying more than $150,000, and for some former officers — we publish that too, as filed: the breakdown into base pay, bonus, other pay, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits, from the organization and from related organizations, with the organization's own total. We show it beside the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return; the form does not link the two, so that pairing is ours. We also publish the organization's answers about how it set pay and which benefits it provided — such as first-class travel, housing, club dues or severance — and any explanation it wrote in Part III of the schedule, which may describe a named person's arrangements in the organization's own words.

Why it is public

Federal law makes a tax-exempt organization's Form 990 a public document, and the IRS itself publishes the electronic ones. Who runs an organization that receives tax-exempt status, and what it pays them, is part of what the public is entitled to know about it. We republish those filings so they can be searched and connected; apart from the labelled total and the pairing of a Schedule J entry with its Part VII listing, we do not add to what the organization filed.

If a listing is wrong

We keep an exact copy of what was filed, so we do not edit or remove names from filings. If a filing is wrong — a misspelled name, a title you no longer hold, a figure that was misreported, an explanation that is inaccurate, someone listed who should not be — the organization that filed it can correct it by filing an amended return with the IRS. When the amended return is published, we pick it up, and the earlier one is marked as superseded by it.

A listing reflects the year of the return it came from. Someone who left an organization will still appear on that organization's returns for the years they served, because those returns are accurate records of those years.

If we have misread a filing — a name or figure that does not match the document it came from, or a Schedule J entry paired with the wrong listing — that is our error, and we will fix it. Write to [email protected] with a link to the page.

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