Research Guides: Social Work: Non-Profit Agencies

Finding Agencies by Geography

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Full-text articles on news, business, and legal sources, radio and television transcripts, federal and state court cases, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and law reviews. Coverage: 1790 - present.
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A mapping application that creates thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. To access, first create a personal workspace.
Limited to 10 simultaneous users.

Different ways to find enterprises by type and geology - click here for tutorials on how to reach those goals.

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

Some sources may give you information based on NAICS. NAICS is the standard used by federal statistical agencies (and therefore by most others) in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.

NAICS Manual - the manual for these numbers - click here

Common NAICS Codes for Social Work:

621330 Social workers', mental health, offices (e.g., centers, clinics)
624190 Individual and family social services, multi-purpose
624190 Mediation, social service, family, agencies
624190 Referral services for personal and social problems
624190 Social service agencies, family
624190 Social service centers, multi-purpose
624190 Family social service agencies

The previous coding system was standard industrial classification (sic) and may still be in many tools.

813319 Social change advocacy organizations
813920 Social workers' associations

Industry and Non-profit Agency Research

990 Finder Candid's database of individual 990 forms of private foundations, public charities, and other nonprofits.
Charity Navigator Founded in 2001, Charity Navigator has become the nation's largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. In our quest to help donors, our team of professional analysts has examined tens of thousands of non-profit financial documents. We've used this knowledge to develop an unbiased, objective, numbers-based rating system to assess over 9,000 of America's best-known and some lesser known, but worthy, charities.
CitizenAudit.org A freely available full-text searchable database of full digitized nonprofit financials, with PDFs of the 990 forms back to about 2002, was created by Washington DC based reporter Luke Rosiak.
Company Information Sources A guide to sources for company/organization information available at Loyola.
Give - Better Business Bureau for Charities and Donors : Access evaluation reports that show if a charity meets the BBB Charity Standards, learn about wise giving and issues addressed by BBB Charity Standards and find out how BBB Wise Giving Alliance completes reports on charities.
GuideStar Search GuideStar Search allows you to search for nonprofits and analyze the field with a small set of filters.
Industry Information Sources A guide to resources for industry research at Loyola.
ProPublica- Nonprofit Explorer Use this database to view summaries of 3 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations and see financial details such as their executive compensation and revenue and expenses. You can browse IRS data released since 2013 and access more than 14 million tax filing documents going back as far as 2001.

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Social Work

Finding Agencies by Geography

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

Industry and Non-profit Agency Research