Internet search company NOZA, Inc. (www.nozasearch.com), provider of the world’s largest database of charitable gifts, announced a new free service for nonprofit fundraisers and prospect researchers: the NOZA 990-PF Database beta release. This launch marks NOZA’s introduction of a second major online service providing free foundation grant data with no registration required. The company also offers free foundation grant searching, in addition to its flagship database with over 30 million records of individual and corporate charitable donations. NOZA debuts its 990-PF Database beta release at the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) 45th International Conference on Fundraising in San Diego, March 30th to April 2nd (Exhibitor Booth #409).

The 990-PF Database website is at www.nozasearch.com/990PF.

The 990-PF (private foundation) Database was created and maintained by GrantSmart.org since 1999, as a resource for nonprofits to research private charitable foundations. NOZA stepped up to carry on this work when GrantSmart was seeking the right organization to assume stewardship of the database. As NOZA relaunches its beta version of the service this month, the database now contains 679,474 tax returns filed by 107,543 private foundations. The data is supplied to NOZA in raw form by the IRS and is updated on a continuing basis. All private foundations must file the form 990-PF and are required to make their Forms 990- PF available for inspection by the general public.

“We are proud to continue the good work of GrantSmart to facilitate communication between grant makers and grant seekers by keeping this vital resource available free to nonprofits,” said Craig Harris, NOZA Founder and CEO. "In bringing the 990-PF Database into NOZA’s family of resources, we are able to offer an even more valuable destination for first-time and seasoned fundraisers to quickly identify the donors and support they need to achieve their organizations’ missions.”

Foundation grant making, as reported in Giving USA, a publication of Giving USA Foundation, totaled $36.5 billion in 2006, the most recent year reported, which represented over 12 percent of the total estimated $295 billion in total annual charitable giving in the U.S..

Each 990-PF tax return includes key information for each foundation, including the total value of all assets, the investments held by the foundation, as well as complete listings of gifts, contributions and grants paid to nonprofits during the tax year, and grants that have been approved for future payment. Fundraisers and nonprofit researchers also use 990-PF tax returns to research which individuals or corporations are supporting the foundation, and information about the foundation’s officers, directors, trustees, managers and contractors, their compensation, and grant application criteria, deadlines and geographical relationships. The actual returns, which NOZA users can download in PDF format, range from around 30 pages to well over 200 pages for the largest foundations.

NOZA’s suite of free and paid online services is used by nonprofits and others to research the philanthropic history of prospective donors. A NOZA account provides immediate access to more than 30 million individual, corporate and foundation donations to nonprofits in over 3,000 U.S. cities. Nonprofits, universities, hospitals, libraries, and research professionals can quickly search, download and save philanthropic history by donor name, nonprofit cause, geographic region, gift type or amount. The NOZA 990-PF Database beta release rounds out NOZA’s existing services, the company’s core database of individual and corporate giving, and its free foundation grant searching that provides access to more than 1 million foundation grant records. NOZA also offers a free prospect research workbook with information and tools for new and experienced prospect researchers and fundraisers.

“NOZA’s founding philosophy is that all nonprofits should have affordable access to advanced prospect research fundraising technology,” said Harris. “With the addition of the 990-PF Database, we are adding another dimension to the data our search technology has brought to the fingertips of nonprofits.”

About NOZA
Founded in 2005, NOZA™, Inc. is an innovator in the emerging semantic search industry, developing technology to serve the needs of businesses in vertical industries. NOZA’s proprietary search and retrieval technology locates, isolates, and converts unstructured and semi-structured data from the open web into industry-specific relational databases. NOZA’s first product is the world’s largest database of charitable giving, for a primary market of nearly 2,000,000 U.S. nonprofits, which accounts for 5.2 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) and 8.3 percent of wages and salaries paid in the United States. NOZA is the recipient of a 2007 InfoCommerce Model of Excellence Award. NOZA’s data is available directly through the company’s website at www.nozasearch.com, and through several Strategic Alliance Partners and resellers.