Candid offers a variety of filters to help you build a targeted dataset of the nonprofits you're looking for. The following is a selection of the most popular criteria that can be used to identify a particular group of nonprofits.

Cause area
Organization status:
- revoked: TRUE/FALSE
- defunct: TRUE/FALSE
- merged: TRUE/FALSE
- bmf_status: TRUE/FALSE
- pub78_verified: TRUE/FALSE
Demographics:
- demographics_submitted
- demographics_leader
Geography:
- city
- admin1_code (state or province)
- postal_code (ZIP)
- country
Organization type:
- subsection_code
- organization_type_codes
- grantmaker: TRUE/FALSE
- financials_source
Organization size:
- Financials:
- number_of_employees
For financial data:
- Most recent year available (recommended for all data except historical analysis)
- Single Year
- Range of years
Candid Seal of Transparency level: Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum
Required data elements
- e.g. must have contact information

Our data team can also build a data set for a specific group of organizations based on a list of EINs.

Examples

I'd like to identify organizations currently working in Public Health in the state of New York.

Criteria:
- admin1: NY
- subject_codes: Includes SE130000 Public Health
- revoked: FALSE
- defunct: FALSE
- bmf_status: TRUE

I'd like to analyze five years of historic financial data for public charities in Minnesota with over $1M in revenue that serve children and youth.

Criteria:
- admin1: MN
- subsection_code_description: 501(c)(3) Public Charity
- revenue: > $1,000,000
- population_served_codes: Includes PA010000 Children and youth
- fiscal_year: 2018-2022