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New York and Florida

New York has 14,399 tax-exempt organizations recognised by the IRS and Florida has 8,209. 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 New York and Florida
MeasureNew YorkFlorida
Organizations recognised14,3998,209
Recognised under 501(c)(3)12,4547,201
With a Form 990 on record14,1738,019
Private foundations2,8321,901
Organizations per 100,000 residents72.535.1
Revenue reported$450,174,869,230$180,723,097,924
Revenue per resident$22,659$7,732
Grants paid$54,312,749,982$20,693,849,591

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

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