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.