Directory of nonprofits by category

There are hundreds of different types of nonprofits in the United States. At a high level, hospitals and universities are the biggest drivers in the sector by revenue and number of employees. Foundations are the most numerous, and also have the third most amount of assets.

General categories of nonprofits

CategoryNonprofitsRevenues
333,112
$38,555,263,661
255,557
$610,621,301,787
185,804
$315,681,734,697
149,498
$60,358,773,394
149,471
$189,216,347,526
135,006
$101,622,505,331
128,947
$56,523,584,536
76,309
$193,724,215,675
63,416
$155,213,529,472
59,880
$12,967,340,380
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All types of nonprofits

CategoryNonprofitsRevenues
150,747
$17,896,491,787
144,829
$3,994,210,019
141,865
$127,229,096,573
53,995
$129,826,468,010
51,367
$35,610,610,616
43,190
$35,326,131,767
39,771
$5,297,649,548
38,977
$1,356,888,186
37,630
$26,550,042,790
37,071
$3,758,568,951
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Directory of nonprofits by category

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.