The short version
You can look up any organization here, read every page, and leave, without telling us anything about yourself. One screen on this site asks for an email address, and it is the screen that shows the funder names. We do not sell, rent or trade addresses. There is no advertising tracker and no outside analytics script on any page here.
The one place we ask for your address
When you ask to see the funder names, we ask for an email address and for you to tick a box giving permission. The box is never ticked for you. When you tick it we store, together, in one record:
- the address you typed;
- the organization you were looking at, and its name;
- which page of this site you were on;
- the exact wording you agreed to, word for word;
- the date and time.
The wording is stored every single time rather than once in a file somewhere, because a permission we cannot show you again is not a permission either of us can rely on.
What we send you
A copy of your record and of the funder names goes to that address, so it is yours to keep rather than something you have to write down before you close the page. The wording you agree to also lets us write to you about your organization and about what SmartNPO does. We keep a record of every message we send you and of every one that failed to arrive, because "we never sent it" and "we sent it and it bounced" are different answers to the same fair question.
How to stop
Every message we send carries a link that takes you off the list. It works in one tap, there is nothing to log into and no reason to give. If your mail program breaks the link across a line, the page it points at asks you to type the address instead and does the same thing. We write down the date you asked to stop and keep that record, so nothing here can quietly put you back on later. Stopping the mail costs you nothing else: the free lookup stays open and nothing on this site needs an account.
How to be forgotten entirely
Stopping the mail leaves the record of what you gave us where it is. If you want that gone as well, ask on the delete everything you hold about me page. Type the address you gave us, and three things happen: the address comes off the mailing list straight away, your request is written down with the date, and the record itself is deleted by hand within a few days.
The deletion is done by a person rather than by the form, and the reason is worth saying out loud. Anyone can type any address into an open form. If typing one were enough to delete a record, a stranger could erase yours. So the form does the part that cannot hurt anybody — stopping the mail — and a person does the rest.
One thing outlives the deletion, and you should know that before you ask: the fact that the address asked to be left alone, and the date. If we erased that as well, nothing would be left to stop the next message going out to you.
What we record when you give us no address at all
Two things, and they are worth naming plainly:
- What was typed into the search box, and which organization it matched. That is how we find out that a real name people search for is missing from the file we hold.
- A count of arrivals: which page somebody landed on, how far through it they got, and the website they came from. The site, not the page — we record that somebody came from a social network, never which post they were reading. It is tied together by a random number your own browser makes up for itself and throws away the moment you close the tab.
We do not record your IP address. We do not fingerprint your browser. There is no third-party analytics script, no advertising pixel and no tracking cookie on any page of this site.
What your own device keeps
Once you have been through the funder-names screen, your browser keeps a short signed handle for up to 180 days, so that coming back does not put the same screen in front of you twice for an organization you have already been through. It is stored in your browser and in a cookie set by this site alone, and it holds a code standing for the organization and a date. It does not hold your name and it does not hold your email address, and no other website can read it. Your browser also remembers the last organization you looked up, so a page can greet you with it.
The button below empties all of that from this device, right now.
If you answer the questions
Some pages ask one question at a time about where your organization is up to, and use the answers to pick what to show you next. Every one of those screens has a skip button on it from the moment it appears. The answers are stored against the handle described above, or against your organization, and not against your name.
Who else touches any of this
Cloudflare serves this website and carries the email we send, the way a landlord and a post office are involved in a letter. Beyond that, nobody. Your address does not go to an advertising platform, to a mailing-list company, or to anyone else, and it is not part of anything we would sell.
Where the information about your organization comes from
Everything this site tells you about an organization comes from public federal records: the IRS Business Master File, the IRS automatic revocation list, and the annual returns that grantmaking foundations file, in which they list the grants they paid. We did not get any of it from you, and none of it is secret — it is published by the IRS. Those files lag behind real life, which is why every figure here carries the file it came from and the date of that file. If what the federal record says about your organization is wrong, the IRS is where that gets corrected, not here.
Children
This site is for people running or starting an organization. Nothing here is aimed at children and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
When this page changes
This page was written on 15 August 2026 and it describes what the site does today. It is part of the site rather than a document filed away, so when what we do changes, this page changes in the same breath.