990 Search Results Screen
The 990 Search Results Screen displays your results in four columns: Grantmaker Name; State; Doc Type; and Fiscal Year. The default sort order is by Grantmaker Name, which displays results by grantmaker name from A to Z. You can re-sort your results by clicking a column heading. Clicking Fiscal Year, for example, will sort the list by fiscal year from most recent to least recent. Clicking a second time will change the display to ascending order. A small arrow will appear within the column heading of the column that has been sorted, pointing up or down to indicate the order in which the information is being displayed.
The 990 Search Results Screen has several components:
Guided Search
Located on the left side of the screen, the guided search options enable you to broaden or narrow your search directly from the search results screen. The options provided are relevant to your current search criteria and your current search results.
To broaden your results, unselect a check box associated with your current search criteria. For example, unselecting the check box associated with a fiscal year you used to construct your search strategy will broaden your results to include filings for any fiscal year.
To narrow your results, click on an index entry under any category in the Narrow Your Results area. For example, clicking on an index entry under Fiscal Year in the Narrow Your Results area will narrow your results to display only the subset of filings for that particular fiscal year. The number in parentheses to the right of an index entry indicates the number of 990 filings available in your current results for that entry; index entries are displayed in descending order based on this number. If more than ten index entries for any one category are associated with the 990 filings in your current results, navigation links will appear above the entries for that category. Clicking Next 10 takes you to the next set of up to ten entries. Clicking Prev 10 takes you to the previous set of ten entries.
To hide the guided search options to conserve screen space, click the "hide" link. When you hide the guided search options, a criteria line will appear at the top of the page displaying the criteria associated with your current search results. To view the guided search options once again, click the "show" link.
Grant Search Results Screen Tools
The Grant Search Results Screen provides a number of utilities used to manage grant data in and extract grant data from FDO. Descriptions of each tool are provided below:
FDO allows you to save a record of the criteria you used to conduct a search. Doing so enables you to quickly and easily run that search again in the future.
To save the initial criteria you used to conduct your search, click the Save Search link above the column headings. In the pop-up window that appears, enter a name for your search and click the Save Search button.
Your saved searches are stored in My FDO. For information on managing and running your saved searches, see the My FDO section.
The Save Search tool is not available if you've conducted a Power Search.
To return to the Search 990s Screen, click the Search 990s tab at the top of the page. To return to the Search 990s Screen with your initial search criteria pre-loaded, click the Modify Search link above the column headings (not applicable if you've conducted a Power Search). To return to the Power Search tool on the Home Screen, click the Power Search tab at the top of the page. To view a 990 filing, click on a grantmaker name to open the filing in Adobe Reader.
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