Fund Facts

There are people who don't really run great nonprofits, there are those that do, and then there are those who simply exist to baffle us.

Inspiration

Many people donate a lot of money to charities without knowing what happens to the money. For example, the nonprofit Santa Clara University spends over $700,000 to pay one person: the head coach of the basketball team. When people donate to a nonprofit, they expect their money to be going to help fulfill the mission statement f that nonprofit, yet a significant amount of their money does not. We aim to find out which nonprofits stick to their mission statement.

What it does

We take financial data about nonprofit organizations which to see how efficiently they operate. We tell you which charities use your the best based how much money they spend on their charitable activites vs their overhead expenses We have around 350k records of efficiency of non-profits linked to their name. Unlike the IRS who stores their data based on EIN, we have given an easily searchable name and location for each EIN.

How we built it

magic! literally

Challenges we ran into

We worked with IRS data and ran into issues of corrupted data/data that could not be used together
We had trouble getting started as a group since we all had differing backgrounds. We had to learn new languages on the fly to be able to work with each other and set up our dev environments

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Working with the IRS data even after running into issues with it and having to cleanse the data
Making and creating features for the website like the
Analyzing financial documents to create an alogritm to get the efficiency of a Nonprofit