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Texas AG Launches Charitable Organizations Search Tool

By PI Magazine (Tamara Thompson and Rosemarie Mesis)

The Texas Attorney General has finally around to offering a service previously available in most other states: a charities online database. A search using the Texas Charitable Organizations Search Tool returns a summary of the organization, sometimes with a revenue graph, and a link to the IRS 990 forms. As of this date none of the 990 forms were yet available. Search by these fields, individually or in combination: organization name or word in the name, city, state, type of activity and employer identification number. An information page explains how to read a form 990 and links to other charity lookups.

Find the Florida charities search (”Gift Givers’ Guide”) buried deep in the Division of Consumer Services site.

Full post as published by PI buzz on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).