Congress and IRS Urged to Make Charity Data More Open - Government - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Congress and IRS Urged to Make Charity Data More Open - Government - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: A group of open-government advocates and foundation leaders is calling on Congress to require nonprofits to file their Form 990 informational tax forms with the Internal Revenue Service electronically and asking the IRS to work with third parties to create a public database of the information contained in the forms.