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Georgia and North Carolina

Georgia has 3,699 tax-exempt organizations recognized by the IRS and North Carolina has 4,269. 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 Georgia and North Carolina
MeasureGeorgiaNorth Carolina
Organizations recognized3,6994,269
Recognized under 501(c)(3)3,1773,732
With a Form 990 on record3,5724,172
Private foundations519457
Organizations per 100,000 residents33.138.6
Revenue reported$112,772,467,274$93,667,476,208
Revenue per resident$10,086$8,480
Grants paid$12,731,351,292$10,992,570,088

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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