Religious organizations and churches

There are 354,542religious organizations in the United States. Combined, these religious organizationsemploy 349,128 people, earn more than $39 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $114 billion.

Types of religious organizations

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
164,965
$20,340,845,806
11,838
$8,196,726,929
4,502
$2,085,571,600
4,461
$2,035,464,804
4,408
$563,209,300
4,108
$855,826,336
3,021
$58,264,327
2,626
$1,539,374,906
2,452
$2,171,100,897
1,209
$204,882,622
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Job trends for Religious organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
14,931
1-10
7,711
11-25
1,728
26-100
1,043
101 to 1,000
330
1,000+
21

Sizes of religious organizations

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
29,673
$250k to $1M
8,019
$1M to $5M
3,058
$5M to $25M
784
$25M to $100M
135
$100M+
37
Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Directory of religious organizations


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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.
This category corresponds to the "X00: Religion: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.