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Maryland and Washington

Maryland has 3,447 tax-exempt organizations recognised by the IRS and Washington has 3,770. 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 Maryland and Washington
MeasureMarylandWashington
Organizations recognised3,4473,770
Recognised under 501(c)(3)2,8923,056
With a Form 990 on record3,3943,724
Private foundations476432
Organizations per 100,000 residents55.047.4
Revenue reported$95,800,457,632$128,915,933,831
Revenue per resident$15,296$16,199
Grants paid$8,993,196,757$22,850,771,509

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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