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Look it up by EIN 53-0196605.","exampleUseCases":[{"title":"Donor due diligence before charitable gift","prompt":"Before I donate to this charity, can you verify that EIN 13-1837418 is IRS tax-exempt and that my donation would be deductible?"},{"title":"Nonprofit grant eligibility screening","prompt":"We're reviewing grant applications — can you check the IRS nonprofit status for 'Habitat for Humanity International' and tell me their exemption subsection and whether they're listed in Pub 78?"},{"title":"Revocation check for compliance audit","prompt":"I need to know if EIN 46-1234567 has ever had its tax-exempt status automatically revoked by the IRS — can you pull up their current IRS record?"}],"resultDescription":"Returns up to 10 matching nonprofit records from the IRS BMF and Pub 78 data, each including the organization's BMF exemption subsection code (e.g. 501(c)(3)), deductibility code, foundation classification code, whether the org appears in IRS Publication 78, and whether it has experienced an automatic revocation of exempt status. An empty organizations array with a 200 status indicates a paid call with no matching records found. No legal conclusion is computed by the API.","failureModes":["Empty organizations array returned (paid 200) when no matching EIN or name is found in IRS data","Name lookup may fail if the submitted name does not exactly match the IRS master file key","EIN format errors (non-numeric, wrong digit count) may cause validation failure","Stale IRS data: BMF is updated periodically, so very recent status changes may not be reflected","Ambiguous name matches may return multiple records; caller must disambiguate","Both ein and name omitted: likely returns error or empty result"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need authoritative IRS nonprofit status data — especially exemption subsection, deductibility codes, Pub 78 listing, and automatic revocation history — for a specific organization identified by EIN or exact legal name. Prefer this over general web searches when you need structured, machine-readable IRS data for compliance, grant screening, donor due diligence, or audit workflows. If you have the EIN, prefer it over name search for precision.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-10-02T18:31:12.831Z","isFirstParty":false,"canonicalSlug":"irs-nonprofit-status-lookup-by-ein-or-organization-name-26fbf244"}