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Is Nonprofit Organization

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor organization is identified as a nonprofit in the award record. It represents the vendor’s organizational profit structure at the vendor site level for the transaction.

Family: Other Transaction Award
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: boolean_or_code_flag
Semantic Type: flag
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isNonprofitOrganization
Title
Is Nonprofit Organization
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/profitStructure/isNonprofitOrganization
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor organization is identified as a nonprofit in the award record. It represents the vendor’s organizational profit structure at the vendor site level for the transaction.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts distinguish awards made to nonprofit entities from those made to for-profit vendors, which is important for market segmentation, vendor profiling, and policy or compliance reviews. It can also support reporting on awards to mission-driven organizations and analysis of how federal spending is distributed across organizational types.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isNonprofitOrganization
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/profitStructure/isNonprofitOrganization
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/profitStructure/isNonprofitOrganization' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isNonprofitOrganization'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • Filter awards to nonprofit vendors
  • Segment spend by vendor organizational type
  • Support compliance or socioeconomic analysis

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the flag reflects IRS tax status rather than the FPDS vendor classification
  • Counting missing or coded-null values as false without checking the source encoding

Query Guidance

Use this field as a filter or grouping attribute after confirming its stored representation, for example WHERE field = 1 or WHERE field IN ('Y','Yes') depending on the extract. When building summaries, normalize coded values to a consistent boolean and exclude null or unknown values unless they are analytically meaningful.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isNonprofitOrganization AS is_nonprofit_organization
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isNonprofitOrganization IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isNonprofitOrganization AS flag_value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__profitStructure__isNonprofitOrganization IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY flag_value
ORDER BY record_count DESC

Each dictionary item includes SQL-ready examples generated alongside the variable metadata, allowing immediate use in FPDS Query for filtering, aggregation, and analysis.