Data types

This field indicates the gift amounts stated in the source document. Use the Minimum gift amount filter to filter this data.

This field display the donor's name as it appears in the source document. If the gift is a memorial or honorary gift, this field usually includes the honoree's name as well, e.g. John Doe, In Honor of Jane Doe.

This field indicates whether the donation was made by an individual or a foundation.

This field indicates the type of gift category. Each record is assigned a category based on information in the source document. Categories include:

• Announced Gift

• Annual Gift

• Capital Gift or Campaign Gift

• Cumulative Giving

• Endowment Gift

• Event Attendee

• Event Sponsor

• Founding Donor / Charter Donor

• Honorary Gift

• In-Kind Goods or Services

• Matching Gift or Challenge Gift

• Memorial Gift

• Monthly Gift

• Named and Endowment Fund or Area of Interest Fund

• Planned and Legacy Gift or Deferred Gift or Bequest or Estate Gift

• Program Gift or Restricted Gift

• Scholarship Gift

• Vehicle Donation

• Consecutive Yearly Gifts, Past 2-4 Years

• Consecutive Yearly Gifts, Past 5-9 Years

• Consecutive Yearly Gifts, Past 10+ Years

• Unknown

This field indicates the name of organization receiving the donation. This may be a college, university, non-profit, foundation, or another type of organization. It is also a link to recipient's website. The links direct you to the location where the data was located when it was initially found.

This field indicates the recipient's cause. Each record is assigned one or more NTEE general and specific categories. NTEE codes comprise The National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) classification system developed by the National Center for Charitable Statistics to classify non-profit organizations. The IRS classifies non-profit organizations using this system.

Here is a list of the General Categories:

• Animal Related

• Art

• Civil Rights

• Community Improvement and Capacity Building

• Crime and Legal-Related

• Education

• Employment

• Environment

• Food, Agriculture and Nutrition

• Health Care

• Housing and Shelter

• Human Services

• International

• Medical Research

• Mental Health and Crisis Intervention

• Mutual and Membership Benefit

• Philanthropy

• Public and Societal Benefit

• Public Safety

• Recreation and Sports

• Religion-Related

• Science and Technology

• Social Science

• Voluntary Health Associations and Medical Disciplines

• Youth Development

Use the Recipient cause filter to filter this data field. There you can select a General Cause and optionally, a Specific Cause. The Specific Cause filter refines the records to a subset of causes associated with the general cause you specified in the General Cause filter.

This field indicates the recipient organization's location. It includes the city, state, postal code, and country. This represents the location of the organization based on information found on their website.

To filter this data, use the Country, State, City and Postal Code filters.

This field is a link to where the source document was found. The links direct you to the location where the data was located when it was initially discovered.

This field indicates the organization's scope. Each organization is identified as either local, national, or international. The scope is assigned by one of our analysts, and is intended to assist in identifying if the donor is a local donor, national donor or international donor. National is generally defined as any organization with programs that extend beyond the boundaries of the state in which the organization is located. All 4-year higher education institutions are assigned the national designation.

This field indicates when the donation was made, according to the source document. The field either contains a single year, or a fiscal year, depending on how the recipient organization identified the time period. Multi-year campaigns either have the year in which the campaign honor roll was published, or the entire time span of the campaign. If the source document does not indicate a time period, the year is the year in which the source material was added to our database.

To filter this data, use the Year start filter.

This field indicates when the donation was added to our database. This data does not appear in a column. However, you can filter the records using the Date added filter.