NYS Corporations Database private or public companies
Accurint has a Business/Company database (See Barbara in Research Center – she’ll search for you).
SEC company filings for public companies
How to use SEC filings to cover companies from Journalists' Resource at Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center
Mergent for public and private companies (click on D&B database for private)
Reference USA public and private companies
Better Business Bureau US business and charity search
Whoxy domain name registry search by name or email, including historical
DomainTools search by website to find details of registration – if available (fee version allows searching by name).
Who Rules America? From Univ. Of California at Santa Cruz
NYC Doing Business List vendors and lobbyists
New York City Building – General Contractor Search
NYC Civil List
SeeThroughNY (data on payroll, pensions, contracts, expenditures)
NYS Agency Databases
NYS Campaign Finance Disclosure
NYC Campaign Finance on NYC Campaign Finance Board site
Federal Donor Lookup on OpenSecrets
New York City Lobbyist and Client Database
Dark Money Watch, Tools for Digging Into Dark Money from MapLight and their partners
Combined Federal/State Disclosure and Election Directory 2016 - Federal Election Commission
Mollie Hanley from OpenCorporates visited the CUNY J-School on 3/5/18.
View Mollie’s presentation slides here (they are also in the box above) for examples of reporting using the data, and more tips for navigating the platform.
Can use corporate groupings: "User created collection of different companies that humans (as opposed to corporate lawyers) consider part of the same group, allowing hard legal entities to be linked to fuzzy entities like Wikipedia articles, allowing information to be collected in a distributed and open way."