Directory of nonprofits by category

There are hundreds of different types of nonprofits in the United States. At a high level, hospitals and universities are the biggest drivers in the sector by revenue and number of employees. Foundations are the most numerous, and also have the third most amount of assets.

General categories of nonprofits

CategoryNonprofitsRevenues
 
347,589
 
$38,180,334,436
 
259,554
 
$597,288,038,670
 
191,026
 
$303,386,768,585
 
158,273
 
$203,652,910,778
 
156,374
 
$58,018,977,398
 
138,886
 
$95,782,448,216
 
132,496
 
$57,555,389,417
 
77,127
 
$202,974,200,471
 
65,863
 
$169,230,581,690
 
63,389
 
$16,159,262,577
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All types of nonprofits

CategoryNonprofitsRevenues
 
158,638
 
$17,920,166,200
 
149,592
 
$2,509,534,549
 
145,484
 
$130,186,187,793
 
57,151
 
$136,471,758,289
 
54,418
 
$36,269,941,767
 
42,790
 
$37,974,991,390
 
41,685
 
$1,518,246,052
 
40,743
 
$5,540,468,913
 
38,586
 
$3,832,301,881
 
37,893
 
$29,064,546,004
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Directory of nonprofits by category

Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.