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California and Texas

California has 18,056 tax-exempt organizations recognised by the IRS and Texas has 10,103. Side by side, with a per-resident figure for the measures where population is the thing that differs.

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Tax-exempt organizations in California and Texas
MeasureCaliforniaTexas
Organizations recognised18,05610,103
Recognised under 501(c)(3)15,3278,207
With a Form 990 on record17,6699,820
Private foundations2,7742,088
Organizations per 100,000 residents45.832.3
Revenue reported$565,219,287,522$205,705,529,645
Revenue per resident$14,334$6,574
Grants paid$60,459,062,295$20,854,451,758

Neither column is better. A state with more organizations per resident has more registered nonprofits per head, which may reflect population size, the presence of a large city, or how many small organizations bothered to register — the data cannot separate those.

What makes these two hard to compare

  • The state is an organization’s address of record. A national charity headquartered in one state operates in all of them, and its revenue is counted where its mail goes.
  • Revenue totals sum filings from different years, because organizations report on their own fiscal years. A state total is not a figure for any one year.
  • 2024 Census resident population is the denominator for the per-resident rows. It counts people who live there, not people the organizations serve.
  • Churches need not apply for recognition, so states differ partly in how many churches chose to apply.

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