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 »