Attachment G - Likely Performer and Funder Sources

Attachment G
Likely Performer and Funder Sources

Likely Performer and Funder Sources
A total of 2,361 organizations were identified as likely performers using five auxiliary sources;
1,494 organizations were identified as likely funders using nine sources. Table 1 includes the
source of auxiliary data and the count of organizations.
Table 1. Auxiliary Data Sources Identifying Likely Performers and Funders
Performer Source

Description

NCSES Federal Support for
S&E Survey (FSS) 2010–2013

Organizations who are listed in the survey of Federal
S&E Support in 2010–2013 as recipients of R&D.
These organizations accepted federal funding for
R&D in the United States.
AIRI members are nonprofit research institutes
whose mission is to enhance the ability of its
members to improve human health and advance
knowledge.
Biomedical organizations who participated in the
2009 NCSES survey of Science and Engineering
Research Facilities. Organizations that participated
in this survey expended at least $1 million in
research and development funds in the prior fiscal
year.
Organizations screened in the Former 1996/1997
NPRA survey that were indicated as a “Performer”
or “Both” Funder/Performer organizations.
NSF provided a list of 62 nonprofit organizations
with affiliation agreements at different universities.

Association of Independent
Research Institutes (AIRI)

NCSES Facilities Survey 2009

1996/1997 NPRA Survey
Screened Performer
NCSES Higher Education
Research and Development
(HERD) Affiliates
Funder Source
1996/1997 NPRA Survey
Screened Funder
1996/1997 NPRA Survey
Responding Funder
Grant Station Funder
Database
Consortium of Social Science
Associations (COSSA)
Science Philanthropy Alliance
Health Research Alliance
ICF Cognitive Interview
Exploration

Description
Organizations screened in the Former 1996/1997
NPRA Survey that was indicated as a “Funder” or
“Both” Funder/Performer organizations.
Organizations responding to the Former 1996/1997
NPRA Survey and was indicated as a funder
organization.
Grant Station database of funders who indicated
funding of research.
ICF identified organization with a COSSA
membership that indicated they were a private
foundations and funded research.
Organizations listed as members of Science
Philanthropy Alliance.
Organizations listed as members of Health Research
Alliance.
ICF identified organization that funded research
through preliminary research in the process of
identifying organizations for cognitive interviewing.

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Organizations

Has
EIN

1831

81



171



233



45



Organizations

Has
EIN

390



99



822



10
6
66
19

Table 2. Auxiliary Data Sources Identifying Likely Performers and Funders (continued)
Funder Source

Description

Organizations

Open Education Database
Article "100+ Places to Find
Funding For Your Research"8

Article indicating sources of funding for researchers.

51

Organizations identified by Inside Philanthropy that
provided funding for scientific research.

31

Inside Philanthropy9

Has
EIN

Assigning EINs
EIN is the unique identifier assigned to a nonprofit organization when it receives its nonprofit
status from the IRS. Some auxiliary sources did not have an EIN number for the organization. We
performed EIN look-ups for organizations without an EIN.
For performers, the only source requiring EIN look-ups was the FSS. For 1,678 organizations on
the 2010–2012 FSS, GuideStar10 algorithmically assigned missing EINs using the organization’s
name and address to find a match in their database. An additional 153 organizations from the 2013
survey were added after the initial matching. ICF used GuideStar’s Non-Profit Organization
searchable database to look-up EINs for these organizations. The process resulted in 17
organizations from the list that could not be matched to an active organization in the database and
were excluded from the likely performer list.
For Funders, 183 organizations collected from various sources required EIN look-ups. ICF used
GuideStar’s Non-Profit Organization searchable database and found EINs for all 183
organizations.
Deduplication
The multiple data sources included several of the same organizations. Therefore, we removed the
duplicate organizations. This resulted in 439 organizations removed from the likely performer list
and 273 organizations removed from the likely funder list. Each list had only one unique EIN entry.
Matching the Likely Performer List with the Exempt Organization Business Master
File (EO/BMF)
We matched the likely performer list with the 2013 EO/BMF, as provided by the National Center
for Charitable Statistics (NCCS).11 The EO/BMF is a file originally produced by the IRS, which
identifies all active nonprofit organizations that are registered with the IRS. NCCS supplements
the file with additional data fields. Merging the likely performers with the EO/BMF identified 151
8

(OEDb) Open Education Database. 2013. 100 Places to Find Funding For Your Research. Available at
http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/100_places_to_find_funding_your_research/. Accessed on December 7, 2015.

9

Fundraising for Science Research | Grants - Inside Philanthropy. n.d. Available at http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/grants-for-scientificresearch/. Accessed on December 7, 2015.

10

GuideStar develops and maintains a database of nonprofit organizations and provides information and analytic services related to nonprofits.
For more information, refer to http://www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx.

11

NCCS builds and maintains a repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. For more information, refer to
http://nccs.urban.org/.ee

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additional organizations with no active listing. They can be assumed to be defunct or no longer
operating as a nonprofit organization and were removed.
We did not perform this step when compiling the likely funder list. At the time when the performer
list was developed, we were evaluating the EO/BMF as a frame source. As discussed, the benefits
of the added financial data led to using the NCCS core files as the source of the frame. Because
we determined this prior to the development of the likely funder list, matching to the EO/BMF
seemed unnecessary.
Matching the Likely Performer and Likely Funder Lists to the NCCS Core Files
Finally, we matched the likely performer and likely funder lists to the NCCS core files. Ninetynine likely performers and 105 likely funders did not match to an organization on the NCCS core
files because they did not meet the minimum criteria to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, or 990-PF. These
organizations were removed.
This resulted in a final count of 1,655 likely performer organizations and 1,116 likely funder
organizations. There were 154 organizations that identified as a likely performer and a likely
funder. Table 3 includes a summary of the creation of the likely performer and likely funder lists.
Table 3. Summary of Likely Performer and Likely Funder List Creation
Summary of Likely Performer List Creation
Description
Combined "Likely Performers" sources
Duplicate EINs
No listing on EO/BMF
No listing on NCCS Core Files
Remaining "Likely Performers" Organizations

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Likely
Performers
2,361
-439
-151
-99

Likely
Funders
1,494
-273
n/a
-105

1,655

1,116