Delaware and Maine
Delaware has 1,644 tax-exempt organizations recognised by the IRS and Maine has 1,072. Side by side, with a per-resident figure for the measures where population is the thing that differs.
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| Measure | Delaware | Maine |
|---|---|---|
| Organizations recognised | 1,644 | 1,072 |
| Recognised under 501(c)(3) | 1,544 | 949 |
| With a Form 990 on record | 1,625 | 1,060 |
| Private foundations | 1,051 | 123 |
| Organizations per 100,000 residents | 156.3 | 76.3 |
| Revenue reported | $23,291,742,074 | $21,657,820,870 |
| Revenue per resident | $22,142 | $15,415 |
| Grants paid | $9,163,717,013 | $1,110,558,977 |
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.
These states elsewhere
Sources
- Exempt Organizations Business Master File — Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 21, 2026
- Form 990 series e-file data · retrieved September 19, 2026
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