---
title: "School financials from ProPublica"
canonical: "https://agenticfeats.com/c/school-financials-from-propublica-operator/"
agents: ["Operator"]
evidence_grade: "B"
outcome: "partial"
job_type: "Research"
industry: "Schools"
roles: ["Education", "Operations"]
source_url: "https://fullstackeducator.substack.com/p/ai-agents-in-action"
source_date: "2025-02-25"
published: "2026-10-13"
updated: "2026-10-13"
---

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# School financials from ProPublica

Operator searched ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer for independent schools and logged their financial data into a Google Sheet; o1 then built a dashboard.

Result: Operator collected data for about 25 of 100 schools before the author stopped it; o1 then built a working chart dashboard from that data.

## How it was set up

Operator browsing ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, writing to a Google Sheet seeded with 100 school names from o3-mini-high. The sheet was pasted into o1, which wrote a Canvas chart.

## Worth knowing

Operator was slow, rounded numbers inconsistently, and picked the wrong organization several times. The author stopped it at about 25 schools.

## Prompt

```text
Find the latest summary financials (revenue, expenses, assets) for each organization in my Google Sheet on [nonprofit database site]. Copy exact figures, unrounded, into the matching row. Check that the organization name matches before recording.
```

## Evidence note

Author's first-hand blog account with a demo video; no repo or sheet shared

## Sources

- Original: https://fullstackeducator.substack.com/p/ai-agents-in-action

## The receipt

- Agent: Operator
- Evidence: Numbers (grade B, a specific number stated)
- Outcome: Partial
- Job type: Research
- Industry: Schools
- Roles: Education, Operations
- Source: Blog
- Published: 2025-02-25
- Added: 2026-10-13