• Search from among 700,000+ nonprofit organizations in the GuideStar® database—every 501(c)(3) public charity recognized by the IRS, plus more than 60,000 private foundations.
• Our search engine scans the name, description, and NTEE codes of each record for your word(s). Because the database contains data on more than 700,000 organizations, broad searches using general keywords such as health or school can yield an overwhelming number of results.
• You can narrow your search in Charity Search or the Keyword field of Advanced Search by using a phrase as your keyword. The results of your search will be limited to reports that contain all of the words in the phrase, in the same order as they appear in your query. For example, searching battered women's shelter will find reports that contain all three words in that order but not the phrases battered women or women's shelter.

• You can also narrow your search in Advanced Search by:
• Limiting your search to a single city.
• Limiting your search to a single state.
• Searching for a single zip code. To search a larger area, select a search radius from 5 to 50 miles around the zip code.
• Limiting your search to a specific category of work or service.
• Limiting your search to a specific income range. Organizations that have not reported any income are included in the first category, $0 to Unlimited.

You can use more than one of these approaches at a time.
• If you can't find an organization when searching by its name, try:
• Spelling out one or more words in the name of an organization known by an abbreviation or acronym. For instance, instead of using AHA as your keyword, try American Heart Association or American Heart or Heart Association.
• Using and instead of & in an organization's name.
• Leaving out apostrophes. For example, use childrens instead of children's.
• Leaving out words with periods in them or substituting and for them. For example, try Stanley and Isaacs Neighborhood Center or Isaacs Neighborhood Center to find Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center.
• Using an organization's official name instead of its trade name as your keywords. For instance, GuideStar® is the trade name of Philanthropic Research, Inc. If your search results using GuideStar® as your keyword were unsatisfactory, you could try using Philanthropic Research instead.
• Using fewer words from the organization's name as keywords. You will not find our GuideStar® Pages if you search Philanthropic Research, Incorporated, but you will find them if you search Philanthropic Research.

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