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Number of Nonprofit Organizations in the United States, 1998 - 2008
| 1998 | 2008 | |||||||
| Number of Orgs. |
Percent of All Orgs. |
Number of Orgs. |
Percent of All Orgs. |
Pct. Change |
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| All Nonprofit Organizations | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| 501(c)(3) Public Charities | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| 501(c)(3) Private Foundations | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Other 501(c) Nonprofit Organizations | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Small community groups and partnerships, etc. | Unknown | NA | Unknown | NA | NA | |||
| 501(c)(3) Public Charities | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| 501(c)(3) Public Charities Registered with the
IRS (including registered congregations) | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Reporting Public Charities | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Operating Public Charities | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Supporting Public Charities | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Non-Reporting, or with less than $25,000 in Gross Receipts | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Congregations (about half are registered with IRS)* | - | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| 501(c)(3) Private Foundations | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Private Grantmaking (Non-Operating) Foundations | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Private Operating Foundations | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Other 501(c) Nonprofit Organizations | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Civic leagues, social welfare orgs, etc. | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Fraternal beneficiary societies | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Business leagues, chambers of commerce, etc. | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Labor, agricultural, horticultural orgs | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Social and recreational clubs | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| Post or organization of war veterans | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
| All Other Nonprofit Organizations | 0 | NA | 0 | NA | NA | |||
Note: Excludes out-of-scope organizations.
Sources: IRS Business Master File 04/2009 (with modifications by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute to exclude foreign and governmental organizations).
* The number of congregations is from the website of American Church Lists (http://list.infousa.com/acl.htm), 2004. These numbers are excluded from the totals for the state since approximately half of the congregations are included under registered public charities.