Comparison

Washington and Minnesota

Washington has 42,812 tax-exempt organizations recognized by the IRS and Minnesota has 40,399. 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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Tax-exempt organizations in Washington and Minnesota
Measure	Washington	Minnesota	What it counts
Organizations recognized	42,812	40,399	Registration with the IRS, not activity.
Recognized under 501(c)(3)	35,518	32,252	The charitable subsection.
With a Form 990 on record	15,781	16,348	The only organizations with financial figures.
Private foundations	1,895	2,453	Organizations whose latest filing is a Form 990-PF.
Organizations per 100,000 residents	535.1	692.9	Census resident population as the denominator.
Revenue reported	$134.5 billion$134,462,745,416	$127.5 billion$127,453,382,078	Summed across filings, each for a different year.
Revenue per resident	$16,806	$21,860	Reported revenue divided by the state population.
Grants paid	$23.2 billion$23,160,125,969	$9.1 billion$9,132,458,462	What organizations in the state reported giving away.

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.
2025 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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Sources

Exempt Organizations Business Master File — Internal Revenue Service · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved October 14, 2026
Form 990 series e-file data

Compiled automatically from Exempt Organizations Business Master File and Form 990 series e-file data by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved October 14, 2026