Method

A worked example

One real account, from raw filings to the row a customer reads. The values below are read at render time from the same query the Texas preview runs, so nothing here can go stale without the date beside it changing.

The three numbers on every account

ICP Fit (0-100) is how closely an account matches a nonprofit audit practice's ideal profile. It is a weighted sum of components, each scored from the filing itself.

Firm Specific is 0 in this published default, because likeness to a firm's own portfolio means nothing until that portfolio has been observed. Once a subscriber links its firm and the filings of the last three audit years name it on at least 5 organizations in its territory, its fit gives 15 points to likeness to those organizations (expenditure band, NTEE group, state, entity type) and takes them from the federal expenditure band, so the weights still total 100. A firm that sets its own weights keeps them.

Opportunity Signal (0-100) reflects what changed, inferred from the filings. Signals come in four tiers: S is explicit demand (an open audit or accounting RFP), A is a direct change (auditor changed, first single audit, entered the threshold, a different paid preparer on Form 990), B is a change in complexity (federal spend growth, new findings, a jump in Form 990 accounting fees, revenue or assets) and T is timing (a new, resubmitted or not-yet-observed FAC filing, fiscal year-end). A and B signals add 3 points per severity unit and each T signal adds 3. An open RFP is never added into this number: accounts with one are listed first, earliest deadline first, as explicit demand.

Confidence is HIGH, MEDIUM or LOW. It describes how sure the underlying identification is, for example whether two audit years were matched by auditor EIN or by normalized firm name. A comparison we cannot make confidently is suppressed, not guessed.

Signal rules

The rules are deterministic and versioned. There is no model score and no prediction.

What each signal means

The same six answers for every signal, generated from the one definition file the site, the report and the data dictionary all read.

Data sources

• Federal Audit Clearinghouse - single audit filings, refreshed weekly. The search interface is at app.fac.gov and the bulk data through the FAC public API.
• 2 CFR part 200, subpart F - the rule that creates the filings, including the single audit threshold and the submission deadline.
• IRS Form 990 series e-file data - the two most recent e-filed Form 990 or 990-EZ returns of each nonprofit in the Clearinghouse data, refreshed weekly: accounting fees, the paid preparer, revenue, expenses, assets, liabilities and the Part XII audit answers, as filed.
• Publicly posted solicitations, read from the issuer's own page or document. Nothing behind a login or a paywall is collected.

Every public dataset built from these sources, with an example page, its CSV, the CC BY 4.0 license and how to cite it: nonprofit audit data for journalists and researchers.

Last verified: 2026-09-24

Refresh cadence

FAC data is rebuilt weekly. Solicitations are checked against the issuer's own page on every crawl, at least weekly, and an RFP stays listed as OPEN only while it has been checked against the issuer's page within the last 14 days and its deadline has not passed. Every row carries the date it was last checked. A subscriber can report a problem with a listed RFP; it is hidden until the next check.

Coverage: what a blank means

A missing value is never silently turned into a zero. Each field carries a coverage status.

Why some firms and states have no page

A directory page is published only when there is enough observed data on it to be worth reading, and a page that does not clear its threshold is marked noindex and kept out of the sitemap rather than published thin. Nothing is hidden because of what it says; the rules below are about how much was observed, not about which firm it was.

• A firm gets a page when it was named as the auditor on at least 2 nonprofit single audits in the two most recent audit years we hold. A firm observed once is real, but one filing is not a track record a nonprofit can compare against.
• A state gets a page when at least 10 firms were observed auditing nonprofits there. Below that the list is too short to choose from, and publishing it would imply those are the only firms in the state.
• The national directory itself appears once at least 20 firms clear the firm threshold.
• An RFP page appears when the state has at least one open solicitation we checked against the issuer's own page, or recent closed ones to show. An empty RFP page would say nothing except that we looked.

Each of these pages prints its own numerator and denominator, so you can see how much was left out rather than having to trust that nothing was.

Claims policy

We describe the public record and when it changed. We never state that an organization intends to change providers, that an engagement is ending, or who audits an organization today. The wording is fixed: "most recently observed auditor", "observed on FAC report", "appears to have entered", and a last-checked date on every RFP. Counts on a firm page are filings in which that firm is listed as auditor. They are not a client list and do not describe any engagement that is in place now.

Corrections

If a row is wrong, email support@getauditradar.com with the page URL. Firms may ask for their directory page to be removed and we honour that.