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Title

irscharities -- IRS Recognized Tax Exempt Organizations

Syntax

irscharities , save(string) [ state(string) nteenfix replace ]

where state is the state's two character US postal code abbreviation

Description

irscharities is a convenience program that will pull the SOI Exempt Organizations Business Master File Extract (EO BMF) for the specified state and build a Stata data file. This program will clear any data currently in memory;
if you would like to retain the dataset in memory please see preserve and restore for additional information.

Options

save is a required option used to save the dataset created by irscharities.

state is currently a required option but will be optional in future releases. It takes the two letter state abbreviation as its argument. The state code is used to identify the state where the exempt organizations of interest are located. Future releases will include capability to read/parse the region and area codes as well.

nteenfix Several of the NTEE Activity codes use a combination of alphanumeric characters to identify the primary purpose/activity of the organization. These codes replace the first string character with the corresponding number in the alphabet (e.g., A-Z == 1-26). The following two characters were typically numeric, however several codes have been reassigned to unused numeric values in cases where the last two characters included a string character. These are:

Original Code New Value

A6A Opera 171

A6B Singing, Choral 172

A6C Music Groups, Bands, Ensembles 173

A6E Performing Arts Schools 174

G9B Surgery 797

H9B Surgery Research 897

N6A Golf 1459

More importantly, this option will replace other undocumented string characters in number positions with 0.

replace is an optional argument used to replace an existing dataset with the same name that was specified in save.

Examples

Get Mississippi data without fixing string characters in the NTEE codes.

irscharities, sa(MSdata.dta) st(ms) rep

Get Rhode Island data and fix string characters in the NTEE codes.

irscharities, sa(RIeobmf) state(ri) nteenfix

Notes

When installing this program, make sure the dictionary file is installed in the same directory as the .ado file.

For additional information on the codes please see IRS File Specification

Author

William R. Buchanan, Ph.D.

Strategic Data Fellow

Mississippi Department of Education

BBuchanan at mde [dot] k12 [dot] ms [dot] us