GIS for Nonprofits

A platform for effective nonprofits and philanthropies.

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PolicyMap reduces the burden of data collection, strengthening capacity for social impact.

Use PolicyMap to track neighborhood health and stability, articulate the impact of grants and advocate to stakeholders on the local level.

NeighborWorks America

PolicyMap is an analyst’s best friend; a fusion of easy-to-use mapping with an intuitively organized, comprehensive library of datasets that will save any organization an absurd amount of time and effort.

-Harry Segal, Corporate Planning, Performance and Strategy, Neighborworks America

Get instant access to the web’s largest place-based data library

Data available through PolicyMap is authoritative and continuously updated. Data comes from trusted sources, proprietary vendors and our own expert data team.

Focus on interpreting data, not collecting it

Immediately bring a discussion of data into your work, without having to spend time learning a GIS tool or collecting data.

Upload local level data to leverage against data already available in PolicyMap

Visualize foundation investments, grantee activities and survey data to make strategic decisions about future activities or evaluate impact.

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Good data, smart decisions.

We’ve curated all of the information you need about a place. PolicyMap organizes the data you need by the topics you care about:

Demographics

Population, race and ethnicity, age, sex, language, foreign born, migration and immigration, households, families, elections, religion

Incomes & Spending

Incomes, poverty, tax returns, federal benefits, bankruptcies, housing burdens

Housing

Home sales, rents, building permits, residential & commercial vacancy, subsidized households, public housing, LIHTC

Lending

Mortgage originations, government insured loans, refinance loans, mortgages by race, ethnicity and income, bank branches, credit unions, bank failures

Quality of Life

Crime, broadband access, time to work, heating fuel types, food access, farmers markets, environmental hazards, libraries, museums

Economy

Jobs, wages, small business, employment, workforce characteristics, oil and gas production

Education

School enrollment, educational attainment, graduation rates, student performance, school ratings, cost of college, student loan debt, school locations, college locations, head start locations

Health

Infectious diseases, chronic conditions, access to health care, health insurance, health risk factors, federal health programs, health facility locations

Federal Guidelines

NMTC eligibility & investments, persistent poverty, CDBG eligibility, housing opportunity index, CRA eligible areas, SBA HUB Zones, Promise Zones

Our sources

All sources are authoritative public sources or proprietary vendors.

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Selected list of sources

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
American Community Survey (ACS)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI Fund)
Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
Consumer Expenditure Survey
Convenient Care Association
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
DHS Immigration Yearbook
Economic Research Service (ERS)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

FBI Uniform Crime Reports
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Glenmary Research Center and Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB)
GreatSchools
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) National Credit Union Administration
National Nursing Center Consortium
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
(NOAA)
New America Foundation
Non-Employer Statistics (NES)
Occupational Employment Statistics (OES)
OpenFlights.org