Search for Specific Organizations Using the GuideStar Database

Use the wildcard character (*) to find organizations whose reports include all forms of a search term. For example, using school* as the keyword will find reports that include the words school, schools, schooling, schoolchild, and schoolchildren.
Use the subtraction sign (-) to eliminate terms from a search. For example, using angels –animal will find organizations that use angel in their name or description but are not involved in animal welfare.
Use a phrase enclosed in quotation marks to find organizations whose names include commonly used words. The search engine stops reading the query terms when it encounters commons words such as a, for, in, the, to, and united. To find an organization whose name includes such words, put the organization's name in quotation marks: "christmas in april," "habitat for humanity," "united way."
Use parentheses in the City field of Advanced Search to find organizations in more than one specific city. For example, (Boston Salem Plymouth) will return organizations in any of those cities.
Use several search fields at one time to refine a search even further. Note: the EIN field overrides all of the other search fields, and the Zip Code field overrides the city and state fields.

The GuideStar search engine scans the organization's GuideStar Report, current Form 990, and IRS Business Master File for the search term(s).
The search is not case sensitive. For example, searching on GuideStar, guidestar, Guidestar, guIdesTar, or any other combination of the word will return the same search results.
By default, the search results page lists organizations whose GuideStar Reports contain all of the terms in your query. For example, typing cats dogs in the Keyword field will return only those organizations whose reports contain both words.
Each search results page lists a maximum of 1000 organizations.
Nonprofits are listed in alphabetical order in the search results.

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