Religious organizations and churches

There are 273,584 religious organizations in the United States. Combined, these religious organizations employ 284,799 people, earn more than $36 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $86 billion.

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Subcategories within religious organizations and churches:

Organizations supporting a religious nonprofit(3,118)
Organizations supporting multiple religious nonprofits(2,173)
Christian organizations(136,051)
- Catholic organizations (12,934)
Jewish organizations(7,866)

Types of religious organizations

Nonprofit type	Number	Employees	Revenues	Assets
Christian nonprofit organizations	136,107	58,579	$7,132,315,217	$13,672,368,749
Catholic nonprofit organizations	12,934	4,370	$532,369,727	$1,530,756,488
Religious media production and publishing organizations	7,956	31,765	$4,207,565,732	$7,583,128,723
Jewish nonprofit organizations	7,866	42,792	$5,945,351,750	$15,126,161,227
Buddhist nonprofit organizations	3,767	660	$215,606,495	$758,397,269
Organizations supporting a single religious organization	3,118	1,184	$1,738,549,067	$11,222,208,631
Religious professional societies	2,532	350	$14,826,489	$66,298,727
Islamic nonprofit organizations	2,301	1,658	$218,678,592	$735,340,838
Organizations supporting multiple religious organizations	2,173	1,283	$1,684,040,776	$9,665,135,858
Religious alliances and advocates	503	66	$16,985,277	$27,668,518

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Job trends for Religious organizations

Employees per organization	Number of organizations
0	8,661
1-10	5,661
11-25	1,313
26-100	912
101 to 1,000	463
1,000+	38

Key takeaways for employment stats:

Employment in Religious organizations is driven by large organizations like Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Young Life, Loma Linda University, Samaritan's Purse, and Presbyterian Manors.
The largest employers tend to be religious organizations, christian organizations, jewish organizations, religious media organizations, and catholic organizations.

Sizes of religious organizations

Revenues per organization	Number of organizations
< $250k	23,436
$250k to $1M	5,468
$1M to $5M	2,116
$5M to $25M	671
$25M to $100M	125
$100M+	54

Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Large organizations like Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Compassion International Incorporated, Claims Conference, Samaritan's Purse, and NCF Charitable Trust earn the majority of revenues among nonprofits in Religious organizations.
Organizations with less than $1 million in revenue account for 12.2% of combined nonprofit revenues, whereas organizations in Religious organizations with more than $100 million account for 41.0% of nonprofit earnings.
The highest earning organizations tend to be religious organizations, christian organizations, jewish organizations, religious media organizations, and organizations supporting a religious nonprofit.

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The Christian Broadcasting Network

The Christian broadcasting network's mission is preaching the gospel of Jesus christ into all the world. The Christian Broadcasting Network's mission is preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ into all the world.

Revenue

$315.2m

Assets

$164.0m

Employees

1,456

EIN

54-0678752

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia (JFGP)

The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia's mission is to mobilize financial and volunteer resources and to address the communities' most critical priorities locally, in Israel and around the world.

Revenue

$49.8m

Assets

$322.4m

Employees

144

EIN

23-1500085

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington (CCDA)

The mission of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington is rooted in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the official teachings of the Roman Catholic faith. Today, Catholic Charities has 12 programs in more than 14 locations throughout the diocese.

Revenue

N/A

Assets

N/A

Employees

N/A

EIN

54-0515706

IRS type

501(c)(3)

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

Composed of all active and retired members of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy, The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops promotes the greater good which the Catholic Church offers humankind.

Revenue

$142.9k

Assets

Employees

EIN

53-0196617

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Jewish National Fund

Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people. Jewish National Fund gives all generations of Jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of Is...

Revenue

$87.7m

Assets

$442.0m

Employees

259

EIN

13-1659627

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural d...

Revenue

$699.8m

Assets

$708.3m

Employees

2,965

EIN

58-1437002

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston

CJP is a major fundraising and social planning organization in eastern Massachusetts. Through its philanthropic development activities, grants and allocations, CJP is able to support local, national and international agencies that provide a wide range o...

Revenue

$316.4m

Assets

$1.6b

Employees

195

EIN

04-2103559

IRS type

501(c)(3)

American Jewish Historical Society

The American Jewish Historical Society is the oldest ethnic, cultural archive in the United States. AJHS provides access to more than 25 million documents and 50,000 books, photographs, art and artifacts that reflect the history of the Jewish presence i...

Revenue

$2.1m

Assets

$5.0m

Employees

EIN

13-1764804

IRS type

501(c)(3)

IFCJ The Fellowship

Promote understanding and cooperation between Jews and Christians and to build broad support for Israel and other shared concerns. Build bridges of understanding & cooperation between Jews & Christians & support for Israel. Promote understanding and coo...

Revenue

$120.0m

Assets

$46.8m

Employees

120

EIN

36-3256096

IRS type

501(c)(3)

Catholic Charities Foundation of the Archdiocese of Washington

Catholic Charities Foundation invests endowment assets and provides financial support to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, an affiliated organization, which is a leading provider of comprehensive human services, serving people in need.

Revenue

$1.8m

Assets

$25.9m

Employees

EIN

02-0671101

IRS type

501(c)(3)

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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990 or 990PF with the IRS. We exclude Form 990EZ and Postcard filers, which are high in number but very small in size. 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.

Religious organizations and churches

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The Christian Broadcasting Network

Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia (JFGP)

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington (CCDA)

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

Jewish National Fund

Samaritan's Purse

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston

American Jewish Historical Society

IFCJ The Fellowship

Catholic Charities Foundation of the Archdiocese of Washington

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