Numbers·Partial·Operator·Schools

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.

Resultrc_MJEDB48G

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

NumbersPartial · Blog · Feb 25 · Last checked Oct 13, 2026

Overview

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.

A prompt to start from

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.

Written by Agentic Feats from the source. Not the author's exact prompt.

Sources 1

Originalfullstackeducator.substack.com/p/ai-agents-in-action

History

Source published: 2025-02-25
Added to Agentic Feats: 2026-10-13
Pick: No
Markdown copy: /c/school-financials-from-propublica-operator.md

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