05/26/10 – Subsidyscope releases data and analysis on various types of spending and subsidies in the nonprofit sector. Most federal subsidies come from tax expenditures; tax policies that benefit nonprofit organizations.
May 26, 2010 – Subsidyscope presents government data and
summary statistics on federal programs and tax policies that
provide subsidies to nonprofit organizations. Subsidyscope’s
analysis found government data to be of poor quality. However, the analysis also discovered that
the nonprofit sector is overwhelmingly subsidized indirectly through tax subsidies.
Subsidyscope determined that the government data on tax
subsidies is generally of higher quality than data on
grants, contracts and risk transfers because tax expenditures
are estimated by one agency, the Treasury Department, while
the data on grants, contracts and risk transfers originate
from many different agencies that differ in interpretation of,
and compliance with, reporting requirements. Thus, the highest
quality data coincide with the largest source of subsidies
to the nonprofit sector. Read more »
Nonprofits
Subsidyscope presents government data and summary statistics on federal spending and subsidies in the nonprofit sector. Our work is organized by type of spending on subsidies, such as direct expenditures, risk transfers and tax expenditures. Read more»
