diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e1e402fa..3aed8c75 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     "express": "4.17.1",
     "express-request-id": "1.4.1",
     "helmet": "3.22.0",
+    "json2csv": "^5.0.0",
     "jsonwebtoken": "8.5.1",
     "lodash": "^4.17.15",
     "mocha": "7.1.1",
diff --git a/src/routes/csv.js b/src/routes/csv.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..afa249e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/routes/csv.js
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import { Router } from 'express';
+import validator from 'validator';
+import utils from '../utils';
+import { parseAsync } from "json2csv";
+
+const router = new Router();
+router.use(utils.authMiddleware)
+
+// Gets a data dump from the passed in model (if it exists).
+router.get('/:model_type', async (req, res) => {
+    let code;
+    let message;
+    const modelType = req.params.model_type;
+    try {
+        if(req.context.models.hasOwnProperty(modelType)){
+            //todo add filtering
+            const results = await req.context.models[modelType].findAll({raw:true});
+
+            const processedResults = await utils.processResults(results, modelType);
+
+            if(results.length !== 0){
+                message = await parseAsync(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(processedResults)), Object.keys(results[0]), {});
+            }
+            code = 200;
+        } else {
+            message = "model type is invalid"
+            code = 422;
+        }
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.error(e);
+        code = 500;
+    }
+
+    return utils.response(res, code, message);
+});
+
+export default router;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/routes/index.js b/src/routes/index.js
index fbeb9a15..dca1fc10 100644
--- a/src/routes/index.js
+++ b/src/routes/index.js
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ import user from './user';
 // import userRole from './user-role';
 import contact from './contact';
 import entity from './entity';
+import csv from './csv';
 // Exports object of routes we import above. Add to this if you're adding new routes.
 export default {
 	user,
 	// userRole,
 	contact,
-	entity
+	entity,
+	csv
 };
diff --git a/src/utils/index.js b/src/utils/index.js
index a839dc2a..2b7f2c33 100644
--- a/src/utils/index.js
+++ b/src/utils/index.js
@@ -109,10 +109,36 @@ const validateEmails = async emails => {
 	return true;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Processes model results based on type
+ *
+ * @param {Array} results
+ * @param {String} modelType
+ *
+ * @return {processedResults}
+ */
+const processResults = async (results, modelType) => {
+	switch (modelType){
+		case "Entity":
+			let processedResults = [];
+			for(let result of results){
+				//todo expand conditional checking as checkin object becomes more mature
+				if(result["checkIn"] !== null) {
+					result["checkIn"] = result["checkIn"].checkIns[0];
+				}
+				processedResults = [...processedResults, result];
+			}
+			return processedResults;
+		default:
+			return results;
+	};
+}
+
 export default {
 	formatTime,
 	authMiddleware,
 	response,
 	encryptPassword,
-	validateEmails
+	validateEmails,
+	processResults
 };
diff --git a/swagger.json b/swagger.json
index 81f5546d..a6d70448 100644
--- a/swagger.json
+++ b/swagger.json
@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@
   }, {
     "name" : "contact",
     "description" : "Operations related to contacts"
-  } ],
+  }, {
+   "name": "csv",
+    "description": "Operations related to CSV data dumps"
+  }],
   "paths" : {
     "/health" : {
       "get" : {
@@ -702,6 +705,45 @@
           }
         }
       }
+    },
+    "/csv/{model_type}": {
+      "get": {
+        "tags" : [ "csv" ],
+        "summary" : "returns a full csv data dump based on the model type",
+        "description" : "By passing the model type, you can dump all of the current data in csv format.",
+        "parameters" : [ {
+          "name" : "model_type",
+          "in" : "path",
+          "description" : "type of model you want a csv data dump for",
+          "required" : true,
+          "style" : "simple",
+          "explode" : false,
+          "schema" : {
+            "type" : "string"
+          }
+        } ],
+        "responses" : {
+          "200" : {
+            "description" : "the csv data dump",
+            "content" : {
+                "text/plain": {
+                  "schema": {
+                    "type": "string"
+                  }
+              }
+            }
+          },
+          "401" : {
+            "description" : "Unauthorized"
+          },
+          "422" : {
+            "description" : "Invalid input"
+          },
+          "500" : {
+            "description" : "Server error"
+          }
+        }
+      }
     }
   },
   "components" : {