Washington State Corporate Entities Search Portal

A search portal for Washington state corporate and charity entities maintained by the Washington Secretary of State. The platform allows users to filter businesses by name, type, status, incorporation date, and registered agent, with results exportable to CSV format. Specific dataset metrics like row and column counts are not provided.

Use Cases

• Filter businesses by Business Type and Business Status to analyze industry composition and active versus inactive entities.
• Search by Date of Incorporation/Formation/Registration to study business formation trends over specific time periods.
• Identify all entities associated with a specific individual by searching the Registered Agent/Governor Search field.
• Use the advanced search parameters to create targeted lists of corporations for compliance or market research purposes.

Strengths

• Data is provided directly by the authoritative State of Washington Secretary of State's office.
• The search interface offers multiple filtering parameters including business type, status, and date ranges.
• Results can be exported for offline analysis in a spreadsheet-compatible CSV format.

Limitations

• No pre-compiled dataset extract is available; users must manually query and export data, limiting scalability.
• The scope and completeness of the underlying data (total rows, historical depth) are not documented.
• Data is presented via a web interface (HTML) without a direct API or bulk download, complicating automated access.

Provenance

Source

State of Washington Secretary of State, Corporations and Charities Filing System.

Collection Method

User-generated queries against the official state business registry, exported to CSV.

Freshness

The portal information was last updated on 2024-09-06.

Geography

Washington state, USA.