By Their 990s Ye Shall Know Them what religious nonprofits share with, and don't share with, the rest of the nonprofit sector, read line by line on Schedule L, R, J, and Part VII.
A browser for every field on Schedule L, Schedule R, Schedule J, and Part VII
that the regulatory literature treats as fraud-relevant. Pick a field, pick the secular sectors
you want to set alongside religious nonprofits, read what the literature says the rate means.
Disclosure is not wrongdoing; every elevation has a structural explanation worth ruling out before reading it as a fraud signal.
methodology & caveats
Living draft
Numbers refresh as IRS bulk releases land. Feedback welcome, especially if anything looks off. bhuvana@uchicago.edu
Religion corpus
88,660 filings
86,455 (2014–2024) + 2,205 partial 2025 · 18,017 EINs
Secular corpus
1,200,910 filings
1,160,678 (2014–2024) + 40,232 partial 2025 · 187,133 EINs