# Pennsylvania

Company data from the Pennsylvania business register, through the Topograph API.

> **Beta**: this country is in early development. Some datapoints or documents may be missing, the integration may be unstable, prices may change without notice, and it is not covered by SLAs.

## Overview

Topograph reads Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of Pennsylvania companies through one API.

## Coverage

What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.

Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).

| Datapoint | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |
| Legal representatives | Yes |
| Other key persons | Yes |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | Yes |
| Articles of association | No |
| Financials | No |
| UBO extract | No |

### Documents, as the register names them

- BFS Business Entity Information (printed)

### Speed

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 1 s in prefill mode and 70 s in verification mode. These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.

## Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

- **[Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations](https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos/programs/business.html)**: Official Pennsylvania business entity register maintained by the Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations (BCCO) within the Department of State. Covers every domestic and foreign entity registered under Title 15 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes (business corporations, nonprofit corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, general partnerships/LLPs, business trusts, professional associations) plus four non-Title-15 forms maintained alongside them (credit unions under 17 Pa.C.S., financial institutions under 7 Pa.C.S., authorities under 53 Pa.C.S., and land banks under 68 Pa.C.S.). Topograph exposes two complementary integrations. First, the open-data dataset of registered businesses that the Department of State publishes on data.pa.gov (about 2.3M distinct entities, updated monthly; Topograph refreshes its copy weekly), used for sub-second prefill checks and company search. Second, the live Business Filing Services portal at file.dos.pa.gov, the Department's interactive register and the only source for current status (Active, Dissolved, Merged, Cancelled and others) and for the printable Trade Register Extract. Pennsylvania transitioned from a decennial-report to an annual-report regime on 2025-01-06 under Act 122 of 2022, so principal-officer freshness will improve year over year starting 2025.
- **[GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)](https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy/download-the-golden-copy)** (secondary): Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

## Identifiers

Request a company by its PA Filing Number as the `id`, with `countryCode` set to `US-PA`. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

## The full Pennsylvania reference

The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 2 |
| Search patterns | 2 |
| Quirks | 8 |
| Legal forms | 18 |
| Officer roles | 15 |
| Company statuses | 8 |
| Documents | 1 |
| Example responses | 4 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fus-pa
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fus-pa

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/us-pa.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

## Pennsylvania business register guide

[Pennsylvania business register guide](https://www.topograph.co/guides/business-registers-in-pennsylvania-united-states): how the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/us-pa