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CHARITIES AND OTHER TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS

  RJM Advisors LLC collects statistics from recent studies and reports on charitable giving in the U.S. Please refer to the footnotes for original sources.
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Nonprofit Organizations
  • In 2016, there were approximately 1.54 million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. that were registered with the IRS. 1
  • The registered organizations had assets with a combined value of 5.79 trillion dollars in 2015.1
  • Reported revenues amounted to 2.62 trillion U.S. dollars in 2016, while reported expenses were 2.48 trillion U.S. dollars in 2016. 1
Public Charities
  • In 2016, there were about 1.08 million public charities registered at the Internal Revenue Service in the United States 2
  • In 2016, the revenues of reporting public charities amounted to about 2.04 trillion U.S. dollars. 2
  • In 2016, reporting public charities in the United States had assets worth about 3.79 trillion U.S. dollars. 2
  • In 2016, public charities in the education subsector held assets with a value of about $1.14 trillion, hospitals and primary care facilities totaled $1.339 trillion, and health organizations totaled $1.643 trillion. 2
  • In 2018, about 58 percent of nonprofit organizations in the arts sector reported an increase in charitable receipts as compared to 2017.
  • In 2019, the average amount of one-time gift via email was $111 and average monthly donations to nonprofit organizations in the United States via e-mail in 2019 was $25. The average one-off donation to international organization was $52. 1
 
Public charities are exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Other tax-exempt organizations covered in this section include those exempt under Sections 501(c)(4) through 501(c)(9). Descriptions of these organizations are below:

501(c)(3): Religious, educational, charitable, scientific, or literary organizations; testing for public safety organizations. Also, organizations preventing cruelty to children or animals, or fostering national or international amateur sports competition
501(c)(4): Civic leagues, social welfare organizations, and local associations of employees
501(c)(5): Labor, agriculture, and horticultural organizations
501(c)(6): Business leagues, chambers of commerce, and real estate boards
501(c)(7): Social and recreational clubs
501(c)(8): Fraternal beneficiary societies and associations
501(c)(9) Voluntary employee beneficiary associations


1Statista Research Department, June 2021
2Statista Research Department, Jan 2021
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