Religious organizations and churches

There are 344,631religious organizations in the United States. Combined, these religious organizationsemploy 413,030 people, earn more than $36 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $109 billion.

Types of religious organizations

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
161,523
$19,757,352,067
11,426
$7,469,145,372
4,823
$1,561,904,344
4,498
$2,126,412,084
4,310
$538,632,970
3,904
$817,872,030
3,340
$60,656,876
2,572
$1,481,062,722
2,417
$1,883,843,416
1,144
$144,226,957
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Job trends for Religious organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
14,217
1-10
7,548
11-25
1,703
26-100
1,032
101 to 1,000
321
1,000+
21

Sizes of religious organizations

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
29,297
$250k to $1M
7,774
$1M to $5M
2,994
$5M to $25M
744
$25M to $100M
136
$100M+
34
Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Directory of religious organizations


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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.
This category corresponds to the "X00: Religion: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.