Louisiana and Connecticut
Louisiana has 1,701 tax-exempt organizations recognized by the IRS and Connecticut has 2,461. Side by side, with a per-resident figure for the measures where population is the thing that differs.
Side by side
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| Measure | Louisiana | Connecticut |
|---|---|---|
| Organizations recognized | 1,701 | 2,461 |
| Recognized under 501(c)(3) | 1,397 | 2,075 |
| With a Form 990 on record | 1,659 | 2,442 |
| Private foundations | 151 | 477 |
| Organizations per 100,000 residents | 37.0 | 67.0 |
| Revenue reported | $36,757,333,539 | $63,314,043,794 |
| Revenue per resident | $7,995 | $17,228 |
| Grants paid | $1,727,930,807 | $8,780,239,685 |
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
- Nonprofits in Louisiana and Connecticut
- Federal spending in Louisiana and Connecticut
- Crime in Louisiana and Connecticut
Sources
- Exempt Organizations Business Master File — Internal Revenue Service · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 21, 2026
- Form 990 series e-file data · retrieved September 19, 2026
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