---
id: "us_ntee_code"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["companies"]
country: ["US"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 85
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/us_ntee_code"
---

# NTEE code of a US nonprofit (`us_ntee_code`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Code of the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) that classifies a US tax-exempt organization by its purpose: a major group letter (A arts, B education, E health, X religion ...), two digits for the category and an optional letter or digit for a subcategory, as in B71Z or D200. The IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File gives it in NTEE_CD.

- Parent datatype: `category`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Companies/business/organizations (companies)
- Countries: United States (US)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]\d{2}[A-Z0-9]?$
```

## Examples

- `B71Z` — IRS EO BMF
- `J40` — IRS EO BMF
- `D200` — IRS EO BMF
- `71Z` (invalid example) — No major group letter

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 0 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `usnteecodevalue` (data, `us/us_orgs.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taxonomy_of_Exempt_Entities>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/us_ntee_code.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/US/companies/us_ntee_code.yaml>