Legal-aid, public-interest-law and civil-rights nonprofits by county, from the IRS exempt-organization list

Version 2.0.0. CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23963739

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Source: Probative, Legal-aid, public-interest-law and civil-rights nonprofits by county, from the IRS exempt-organization list, version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23963739, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Probative. (2026). Legal-aid, public-interest-law and civil-rights nonprofits by county, from the IRS exempt-organization list (Version 2.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23963739

Not legal advice. Counts of organizations on the IRS exempt-organization list by mailing address, not a directory and not a measure of services delivered.
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Columns:
  id: Stable record id (never reused)
  jurisdiction: Two-letter state code, or US
  level: us, state or county
  orgs: Organizations counted
  legal_services: NTEE I80
  public_interest_law: NTEE I83
  civil_rights: NTEE R20-R26
  revenue_under_50k: Annual revenue under $50,000 (or none reported)
  revenue_50k_1m: $50,000 to under $1 million
  revenue_1m_10m: $1 million to under $10 million
  revenue_10m_plus: $10 million or more
  per_100k: Organizations per 100,000 residents (2025 population)
  population: 
  asOf: IRS file date
  text: The record in one plain-English sentence
  lastChecked: The day it was last confirmed (YYYY-MM-DD)
  confidence: high, medium or low: computed from status, a second check, age against the refresh cadence and sampling error (rule: /data/#confidence)
  confidenceBasis: The reasons for the confidence level, in a short phrase
  county: County FIPS code (county rows) (in legal-aid-orgs-values.csv, as id, column and value rows)
  countyName:  (in legal-aid-orgs-values.csv, as id, column and value rows)
  stateName:  (in legal-aid-orgs-values.csv, as id, column and value rows)
  note: Caveats (in legal-aid-orgs-values.csv, as id, column and value rows)