453,570 other types of
nonprofit organizations, including chambers of commerce, fraternal
organizations and civic leagues.
Source: NCCS
Business Master File 10/09
In 2006, nonprofits
accounted for 8.11% of all wages and salaries paid in
the United States. Source: Nonprofit
Almanac 2008
There are an
estimated 377,640 congregations in the United States.
Source:
American
Church Lists
Additional statistical information
about exempt organizations is available from the IRS:
Studies (standard
extracts, including
lists of organizations recognized as exempt by the IRS (EO Master
File data)), conducted by the IRS Statistics of Income Division;
The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is the national
repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. Its
mission is to develop and disseminate high quality data on nonprofit
organizations and their activities for use in research on the
relationships between the nonprofit sector, government, the commercial
sector, and the broader civil society.
Working
closely with the IRS and other government agencies, private
sector service organizations, and the scholarly community,
NCCS builds compatible national, state, and regional
databases and develops uniform standards for reporting on
the activities of charitable organizations.
The Center was
established in 1982 and has been a project of the
Center
on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban
Institute since July 1996, when it was transferred from the
research division of INDEPENDENT SECTOR.
NCCS provides online data
analysis tools for those looking for information that isn't
included in the
summary figures.
Custom Table Wizard Access a broad set of
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charitable activities in the U.S. Customize
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NCCS Data Files
A description of the data and variables included in each of
the different data files maintained by NCCS, including the
IRS Business Master Files, the Core Files, IRS Statistics of
Income Sample Files, the NCCS-GuideStar National Nonprofit
Research Database, the Digitized Data, the Unified Database
of Arts Organizations, and the Master file.
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