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Number of Nonprofit Organizations in the United States, 1998 - 2008

from National Center for Charitable Statistics - http://nccsdataweb.urban.org/PubApps/profile1.php?state=US

				1998		2008
				Number of Orgs.	Percent of All Orgs.	Number of Orgs.	Percent of All Orgs.	Pct. Change
All Nonprofit Organizations				1,158,031	100.0%	1,536,134	100.0%	32.7%
	501(c)(3) Public Charities			596,160	51.5%	974,337	63.4%	63.4%
	501(c)(3) Private Foundations			70,480	6.1%	115,340	7.5%	63.6%
	Other 501(c) Nonprofit Organizations			491,391	42.4%	446,457	29.1%	-9.1%
	Small community groups and partnerships, etc.			Unknown	NA	Unknown	NA	NA
501(c)(3) Public Charities				596,160	51.5%	974,337	63.4%	63.4%
	501(c)(3) Public Charities Registered with the IRS (including registered congregations)			596,160	51.5%	974,337	63.4%	63.4%
		Reporting Public Charities		231,625	20.0%	483,779	31.5%	108.9%
			Operating Public Charities	201,175	17.4%	426,033	27.7%	111.8%
			Supporting Public Charities	30,450	2.6%	57,746	3.8%	89.6%
		Non-Reporting, or with less than $25,000 in Gross Receipts		364,535	31.5%	490,558	31.9%	34.6%
	Congregations (about half are registered with IRS)*			-	0.0%	385,874	25.1%	NA
501(c)(3) Private Foundations				70,480	6.1%	115,340	7.5%	63.6%
	Private Grantmaking (Non-Operating) Foundations			67,625	5.8%	110,099	7.2%	62.8%
	Private Operating Foundations			2,855	0.2%	5,241	0.3%	83.6%
Other 501(c) Nonprofit Organizations				491,391	42.4%	446,457	29.1%	-9.1%
	Civic leagues, social welfare orgs, etc.			125,504	10.8%	110,924	7.2%	-11.6%
	Fraternal beneficiary societies			103,065	8.9%	78,109	5.1%	-24.2%
	Business leagues, chambers of commerce, etc.			69,734	6.0%	71,887	4.7%	3.1%
	Labor, agricultural, horticultural orgs			61,444	5.3%	55,629	3.6%	-9.5%
	Social and recreational clubs			56,452	4.9%	55,838	3.6%	-1.1%
	Post or organization of war veterans			34,272	3.0%	32,592	2.1%	-4.9%
	All Other Nonprofit Organizations			40,920	3.5%	41,478	2.7%	1.4%

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.

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Employment in America’s Charities: A Profile - Lester M. Salamon and S. Wojciech Sokolowski (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 2006).

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