Religious organizations and churches

There are 333,125religious organizations in the United States. Combined, these religious organizationsemploy 319,763 people, earn more than $39 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $106 billion.

Types of religious organizations

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
154,970
$20,722,381,914
10,565
$7,743,634,465
5,192
$1,657,477,173
4,210
$2,822,722,176
4,131
$465,694,150
3,497
$684,692,371
3,483
$58,586,221
2,459
$1,039,286,136
2,372
$1,933,012,100
1,030
$105,427,923
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Job trends for Religious organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
12,124
1-10
7,383
11-25
1,691
26-100
997
101 to 1,000
318
1,000+
25
Key takeaways for employment stats:

Sizes of religious organizations

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
28,622
$250k to $1M
7,476
$1M to $5M
2,908
$5M to $25M
731
$25M to $100M
135
$100M+
40
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.