Top 50 Fastest Growing Nonprofits

The fastest growing nonprofits in the United States tend to be younger organizations that have just received major funding, but almost a third are 10+ years old
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The fastest growing nonprofits in the United States tend to be younger organizations that have just received major funding (e.g., Obama Foundation). Almost a third of these fastest growing nonprofits, though, are organizations more than ten years old that have either seen slow growth until now (e.g., Washington STEM), or that used to be larger, fell on hard times, and are now recovering with gusto (e.g., Technology Entrepreneur Center). Besides these trends, the fast-growing organizations are diverse in geography, issue area, and organization type. Some are community development organizations that have received funding for major programs. Others are senior-citizen focused retirement and health care human service organizations. Geography-wise, Texas punches above its weight with 18% of the fastest-growing nonprofits, even though it only has 6% of nonprofits overall

Trends among the top fastest growing nonprofits

Most common years formed for 50 fastest growing nonprofits

Year formedNumber of nonprofits
1961
 
1
 
1973
 
1
 
1976
 
1
 
1980
 
1
 
1981
 
1
 
1993
 
1
 
1995
 
1
 
1996
 
1
 
1997
 
2
 
1999
 
2
 
2002
 
2
 
2003
 
1
 
2005
 
1
 
2006
 
3
 
2007
 
1
 
2010
 
1
 
2011
 
1
 
2012
 
3
 
2013
 
2
 
2014
 
3
 
2015
 
3
 
2016
 
6
 
2017
 
9
 
2018
 
2
 

List of the fastest growing nonprofits

  1. Vilar Performing Arts Center
    Revenue growth
    175%
    Year founded
    1995
    Revenue
    $6.5 million
    Location
    Website
  2. Trinity Broadcasting of Texas
    Revenue growth
    -73%
    Year founded
    1973
    Revenue
    $21 million
    Website
  3. Miami Super Bowl Host Committee
    Revenue growth
    -96%
    Year founded
    2005
    Revenue
    $12,223
    Location
  4. Means Database
    Revenue growth
    156%
    Year founded
    2015
    Revenue
    $1.0 million
  5. Neighborworks Housing Solutions
    Revenue growth
    81%
    Year founded
    1981
    Revenue
    $138 million
    Location
  6. Freedom Project
    Revenue growth
    38%
    Year founded
    2006
    Revenue
    $5.1 million
    Location
  7. Onelife Institute
    Revenue growth
    32%
    Year founded
    2007
    Revenue
    $3.3 million
    Location
  8. Thornwell Charter School
    Revenue growth
    1.2%
    Year founded
    2010
    Revenue
    $3.1 million
    Location
  9. The Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
    Revenue growth
    38%
    Year founded
    1997
    Revenue
    $1.7 million
  10. Compass Community Schools
    Revenue growth
    27%
    Year founded
    2017
    Revenue
    $20 million
    Location
  11. Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers- Capitol Area
    Revenue growth
    12%
    Year founded
    2016
    Revenue
    $96 million
    Location
  12. National Vote At Home Institute
    Revenue growth
    -14%
    Year founded
    2018
    Revenue
    $1.1 million
  13. BVM Capacity Building Institute
  14. Ten Up Ministries
    Revenue growth
    14%
    Year founded
    2012
    Revenue
    $5.1 million
  15. North Carolina Healthcare Foundation
    Revenue growth
    -7.8%
    Year founded
    1961
    Revenue
    $4.9 million
    Location
    Website
  16. Arizona Advocacy Network Foundation
    Revenue growth
    -62%
    Year founded
    2002
    Revenue
    $795,821
  17. Severson Dells Educational Foundation
    Revenue growth
    -24%
    Year founded
    1976
    Revenue
    $612,301
    Location
  18. The Jesse Tree of Idaho
    Revenue growth
    62%
    Year founded
    2002
    Revenue
    $4.5 million
    Location
  19. Cardinal McCloskey Community Charter School
    Revenue growth
    45%
    Year founded
    2017
    Revenue
    $7.2 million
    Location
    Website
  20. Reimagine
    Revenue growth
    -1.9%
    Year founded
    2017
    Revenue
    $1.9 million
  21. Allied Services Personal Care
    Revenue growth
    -4.0%
    Year founded
    1997
    Revenue
    $24 million
  22. Wildlife Protection Solutions
    Revenue growth
    -39%
    Year founded
    2012
    Revenue
    $4.3 million
    Location
  23. Global Healthcare Systems
    Revenue growth
    9.9%
    Year founded
    2003
    Revenue
    $2.4 million
    Location
  24. Climate Mobilization Project
    Revenue growth
    -44%
    Year founded
    2015
    Revenue
    $309,728
    Location
  25. Gallatin Ice Foundation
    Revenue growth
    -3.2%
    Year founded
    2006
    Revenue
    $2.8 million
    Location
  26. Blue Meridian Partners
    Revenue growth
    544%
    Year founded
    2017
    Revenue
    $1.2 billion
    Location
  27. Downtown Doral Charter Upper School
    Revenue growth
    11%
    Year founded
    2016
    Revenue
    $11 million
    Location
    Website
  28. Euvalcree
    Revenue growth
    80%
    Year founded
    2013
    Revenue
    $4.4 million
    Location
  29. Community Passageways
    Revenue growth
    31%
    Year founded
    2016
    Revenue
    $12 million
    Location
  30. Creative Action
    Revenue growth
    62%
    Year founded
    2017
    Revenue
    $3.5 million
    Location
  31. Northern Virginia Emergency Medical Services Council
    Revenue growth
    24%
    Year founded
    1980
    Revenue
    $542,856
  32. Margaret Pratt Community
    Revenue growth
    7.9%
    Year founded
    2006
    Revenue
    $3.1 million
    Location
  33. Yes Our Kids Can
    Revenue growth
    19%
    Year founded
    2017
    Revenue
    $2.1 million
  34. Room in the Inn - Memphis
    Revenue growth
    16%
    Year founded
    2013
    Revenue
    $1.6 million
    Location
  35. Exodus Transitional Community
    Revenue growth
    236%
    Year founded
    1999
    Revenue
    $52 million
    Location
    Website
  36. Falmouth Housing Corporation
    Revenue growth
    96%
    Year founded
    1996
    Revenue
    $1.3 million
    Location
  37. 26 Health
    Revenue growth
    200%
    Year founded
    2011
    Revenue
    $94 million
    Location
  38. Fresno Building Healthy Communities
    Revenue growth
    76%
    Year founded
    2016
    Revenue
    $11 million
    Location
  39. Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno
    Revenue growth
    -40%
    Year founded
    1993
    Revenue
    $2.9 million
    Location
  40. Opportunities for All NFP
    Revenue growth
    -36%
    Year founded
    2015
    Revenue
    $1.5 million
    Location
  41. Defense Energy Center of Excellence National Security Technology
    Revenue growth
    269%
    Year founded
    2014
    Revenue
    $52 million
  42. BridgeYear
    Revenue growth
    43%
    Year founded
    2016
    Revenue
    $1.9 million
    Location
  43. Yippee Entertainment
  44. Carson Parke
    Revenue growth
    -70%
    Year founded
    2014
    Revenue
    $87,600
    Location
  45. CDS Life Transitions
    Revenue growth
    8.0%
    Year founded
    2016
    Revenue
    $45 million
    Location
  46. Arcata House Partnership
    Revenue growth
    61%
    Year founded
    2014
    Revenue
    $4.2 million
    Location
  47. CityServe Network
    Revenue growth
    -88%
    Year founded
    2018
    Revenue
    $10 million
  48. Open Markets Institute
    Revenue growth
    43%
    Year founded
    2017
    Revenue
    $3.9 million
  49. Riverwoods Durham
    Revenue growth
    14%
    Year founded
    2017
    Revenue
    $20 million
    Location
  50. Dakota Child and Family Clinic
    Revenue growth
    -3.8%
    Year founded
    2012
    Revenue
    $1.5 million

Methodology

Cause IQ digitizes and cleans electronic and paper / scanned Form 990s for over 400,000 IRS-registered tax-exempt organizations. We narrowed these to the fastest-growing nonprofits by narrowing down to 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) organizations with at least $1M in revenue, at least $10 employees, and that had Form 990 data for the fiscal year end of 2017-12 or newer. To find organizations with an actual trend versus a one-year blip, we required at least three years worth of financials, with two consecutive most recent years of revenue growth.

Article originally published on February 6, 2020.

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