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Charity Mission Statements That Read as AI-Written
Share of sampled Form 990 mission and program texts an open AI-text detector flags as likely heavily AI-written, by quarter filed, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
A fixed 1-in-20 panel of filers. Read against the baseline, not against zero: the cutoff was set so that a fixed small share of texts filed before ChatGPT crosses it, and that share is stated in the methodology. A high score means text reads like model output, not that a model wrote it. Palanor never publishes a score for any one organization.
Whether nonprofits have started writing their mission statements with AI, from the text they file with the IRS.
What this chart reads
- Charity Mission Statements That Read as AI-Written (Quarterly)as “All panel returns”latest 2026-04-01
- Rewritten Charity Mission Statements That Read as AI-Written (Quarterly)as “Text rewritten since the last return”latest 2026-04-01
Sources
Charity Mission Statements That Read as AI-Written (Quarterly). Source: Palanor scoring of IRS Form 990 and 990-EZ e-file returns (public domain). Source: Internal Revenue Service.
Rewritten Charity Mission Statements That Read as AI-Written (Quarterly). Source: Palanor scoring of IRS Form 990 and 990-EZ e-file returns (public domain). Source: Internal Revenue Service.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.