Research Resources - US National

Helpful information and data sources

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Data

• Data.gov: US Government’s Open Data

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Elections

Federal Election Commission (FEC)

• FEC campaign finance data

• FEC search for individual contributors

• FEC candidates

• FEC Committee Overview (Example: Sharice for Congress, C00670034)

• FEC Electronic Filings for a Committee (Example: ActBlue, C00401224)

• FEC bulk data download

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

• IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search

• Tax Exempt Organization Search bulk data downloads

• Exempt Organizations Business Master File Extract

• IRS Search of IRS 8871 and 8872 forms [527s]

• IRS Form 990 series downloads (PDFs and XMLs)

• Statistics of Income (SOI)

  • Charities and other tax-exempt organizations statistics

  • Income from estates and trusts statistics

• IRS information from ProPublica

  • 527 Explorer

  • Nonprofit Explorer

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Branches of Government

Executive: White House

• Briefing Room Visitor Logs

• Disclosures

  • Visitor Logs

  • White House Salaries 2024

  • Financial

• Plum Book online search

Judicial: US Courts

• PACER: Public Access to Court Electronic Records

• Federal Judicial Financial Disclosure Reports

• Court Listener [Free Law Project]

Legislative: Congress

• House

  • Financial Disclosure Reports Database Search

  • Statements of Disbursements

• Senate

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Federal Procurement and Expenditures

• Federal Procurement Data System

• USASpending.gov

• System for Award Management (SAM.gov)

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Federal Agencies

Federal Communications Commission

• Public Inspection Files

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

• Search Filings: Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system

US Patent and Trademark Office

Search Trademarks, Patents, Copyright Records

Other

• Wikispooks