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What types of communities do nonprofit organizations serve? How much of a nonprofit’s funding comes from individual donations versus foundations or government? Who leads and works at nonprofits?
These are the types of questions the Nonprofit Trends Tracker can answer.
Using representative data from the National Survey of Nonprofit Trends and Impacts, the tracker paints a holistic picture of US nonprofits’ experiences that can be generalized for similar nonprofits at the national and regional levels, in select states, across nonprofit subsectors and sizes, and in urban and rural areas. It offers nonprofit leaders, policymakers, and funders rigorous insights on a range of topics and downloadable visualizations they can customize to better understand nonprofits in their communities.
Data Categories
Dive into the data by selecting a category below.
Demand for services and service provision
Geographic reach and demographics
Individual donations, foundations, corporations, government, and earned revenue
Total revenue, total expenses, cash reserves, and fundraising
Staff and volunteers and demographics for paid staff, CEOs, and boards
What Does the Tracker Offer?
The Nonprofit Trends Tracker’s greatest strength is that its data are representative and robust.
The tracker uses data from the National Survey of Nonprofit Trends and Impacts, a nationally representative survey of US 501(c)(3) public charities with annual expenses and revenues of $50,000 or more. The survey data include nonprofits that primarily receive rather than provide funds and that engage in a wide variety of activities, including offering programs and supports that meet community needs (e.g., food banks and youth programs) and advocating for causes and groups (e.g., environmental nonprofits and veteran-serving organizations). The data exclude foundations, hospitals, higher education institutions, schools, churches and other houses of worship, and other nonprofits with unique business models and contexts. For simplicity, we use “nonprofit” as a catchall for the organizations included in the data. Read more about the data below.
In addition to being nationally representative, all data are weighted to be representative of the types of nonprofits that responded to the survey. That means the data can be generalized to all similar nonprofits across the US, within a region, in select states, in urban and rural areas, and to all nonprofits in the same subsector or of the same size.
Our data also cover a wide variety of topics—including nonprofits’ revenue and fiscal health, their programming, the communities they serve, and their workforce and boards of directors—and are released quickly. By providing timely, diverse information together in one place, the tracker is a one-stop shop for understanding current trends in the nonprofit sector.
How to Use the Tracker
Below, dive into the data by selecting a category. Then explore subcategories and the metrics within them nationally, regionally, or in available states. You can break down the data to compare metrics by nonprofit size, subsector, urban or rural designation, and all available states or all regions to understand how nonprofits’ experiences differ across these characteristics. You can also hover over the charts to see historical data from previous survey years.
Watch our videos for additional instructions and help interpreting the charts.