Oklahoma and Kansas
Oklahoma has 1,570 tax-exempt organizations recognised by the IRS and Kansas has 1,464. Side by side, with a per-resident figure for the measures where population is the thing that differs.
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| Measure | Oklahoma | Kansas |
|---|---|---|
| Organizations recognised | 1,570 | 1,464 |
| Recognised under 501(c)(3) | 1,335 | 1,203 |
| With a Form 990 on record | 1,510 | 1,421 |
| Private foundations | 255 | 203 |
| Organizations per 100,000 residents | 38.3 | 49.3 |
| Revenue reported | $22,158,345,846 | $18,997,743,709 |
| Revenue per resident | $5,411 | $6,395 |
| Grants paid | $2,942,308,291 | $3,060,138,649 |
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
Sources
- Exempt Organizations Business Master File — Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 21, 2026
- Form 990 series e-file data · retrieved September 19, 2026
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