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Kansas and Arkansas

Kansas has 1,464 tax-exempt organizations recognised by the IRS and Arkansas has 981. 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 Kansas and Arkansas
MeasureKansasArkansas
Organizations recognised1,464981
Recognised under 501(c)(3)1,203850
With a Form 990 on record1,421958
Private foundations20397
Organizations per 100,000 residents49.331.8
Revenue reported$18,997,743,709$24,067,660,830
Revenue per resident$6,395$7,793
Grants paid$3,060,138,649$2,160,869,445

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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