Top 1% of U.S. nonprofits account for 75% of revenue

(data.charitysense.com)

10 points | by mtweak 10 hours ago ago

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  • mtweak 10 hours ago ago

    Hi HN, OP here.

    There is about a terabyte of XML IRS disclosures behind this number, so it's quite an exercise to derive. A few other interesting stats that explain the stat further:

    - "Revenue” is not the same as donations - The the nonprofit dataset includes hospitals, universities, insurers and other tax-exempt businesses. Even patient fees, tuition, and investment income count as this revenue.

    - The revenue skew is pretty extreme: $164k is the median, $6.43M is the average

    - Scale attracts more scale: The concentration of revenue is increasing over the years

    - As you can guess: hospitals and universities are among the largest orgs by revenue.

    Definitely a different view of what a nonprofit means!